The Next Day by Carrie Thorne

Author:Carrie Thorne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance steamy ebook, small town rural pacific northwest romance ebook, wedding secret bad boy romance, navy seal military romantic contemporary steamy romance, strong female elope wedding happily ever after
Publisher: Thorny Books
Published: 2021-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

13

Outside the Little Sailor’s Room

Flicking the water out of his hair, Zane cringed as he realized how scruffy he’d gotten. He reached out of the shower and grabbed his towel, drying loosely and lumbering into his bedroom. Still on the charger, his phone flashed blue.

Tapping the screen, he saw he’d missed a call from his father, a voicemail waiting. Nope. Probably asking when they can come visit. Not ready for that.

Grumbling to himself, he finished drying and pulled on cargo shorts and a t-shirt, stuffing the phone into his pocket. In the kitchen, he glared at his coffeepot, wanting one of Freya’s fancy instant espressos. Probably shouldn’t.

They’d agreed they were friends. Friends bummed coffee off each other. Didn’t mean they were cohabitating.

Over the dining table, one of Freya’s paintings really dressed the place up. Felt like he was overlooking a flourishing vineyard in the Loire valley. The corner of his mouth quirked up as he recalled Freya stopping by last night, right as he’d been getting ready for bed.

She’d stuttered over her words, suddenly shy. A thank you gift, she’d said.

For what? He’d asked.

Well, lots of things. Let’s just say it’s for letting me use your computer, as I’m going be using it a lot over the next few weeks until I get my own. And for dinner. And as payment for our wedding. Passing it across, she’d left as quickly as she’d come.

Pulling on his shoes, he strolled down the stairs and crossed over to Freya’s place. Sophie’s car was gone, reminding him it was still the work week. Damn, he didn’t even know what day it was anymore. Not that he was complaining, but it was weird.

An alpine breeze had circled around the mountains, bringing cool air to the valley. The lawn was getting long. It was sort of his too, so he’d make a point to mow it this afternoon.

Not that he’d ever mowed a lawn. Freya mowed last, but it had taken all day with the massive park-like front and back lawns, and she had so much else on her plate right now. If it were his place, he’d wipe out most of the lawn with hard-scaping and low maintenance gardens, maybe a water feature with natural boulders, intricately branched evergreens, and colorful trailing florals...

Shit. He shook his head. He’d taken a few landscaping classes, as the building can be stunning, but without a coordinating surround, it didn’t matter how good your design was. May as well use what he knew; he’d draw up some schematics for Asher and Sophie and see what they thought. Hell, he may as well do some mock-ups for the house while he was at it. They had a contractor coming out soon anyway. They may not own it yet, but they were already making it their own.

He might as well accept that growing up with obsessive architects and studying it himself for four years shaped how his brain worked. Not that he wanted anything in common with his parents, and not that he would ever let them know it, but he did have a knack for design.

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