Trouble Brewing by Suzanne Baltsar

Author:Suzanne Baltsar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

CHAPTER 17

Piper

After my date-turned-sleepover with Blake, I hadn’t seen him all week. We’d talked a lot via text, with one phone call Monday night. We were still on the phone when Bear and Connor showed up at his house to watch whatever game was on. I ended up on speaker phone with all of them, learning the ins and outs of baseball.

Bear had asked when he could try some of my new beer, but I was stuck on the recipe. I needed some clarity, and to drink some good beer that wasn’t my own, so I decided to check out a brewery in St. Paul, and asked Blake to tag along.

And truth be told, when he pulled up to my house I was at the door waiting. I’d missed the guy. His model look was off the charts, and I couldn’t be happier for the warm weather because Blake in a snug V-neck T-shirt had me looking forward to summer.

I stumbled mid-step as the thought hit me. Blake. All summer. I wondered if we’d be together. I hoped so.

“All right?” he asked, meeting me with a hand on my elbow when I staggered.

“Fine.” I didn’t think it would be the coolest move to describe my mind ramble about whether we were an official thing or not.

“You look stunning, as always.”

The denim shorts and loose top didn’t quite scream stunning to me, but I loved that he always complimented me. He made me feel confident even in ripped shorts I’d cut up myself from a pair of jeans.

“I was thinking the same thing about you,” I said as he kissed my cheek.

He tugged on my ponytail. “That why you tripped? Blinded by my exquisite good looks?”

I scratched at the couple days’ worth of scruff on his jaw. “Yes. Obviously.”

“Careful,” he said, opening the passenger door for me. “You’ll break an ankle that way.”

We set off toward St. Paul with the Avett Brothers as our soundtrack.

“Tell me how the thing went last weekend.”

He opened up his window and hung his elbow outside. “Fine,” he said, easing the car onto the highway. “We were at this middle school auditorium since he’s running on an education platform.”

“That’s good.”

“I guess. But I’ve learned just how many of your principles you have to give up in order to get a little bit back.” He snuck a brief glance my way. “Politics is all show.”

He scrubbed his hand over his mouth and took a deep breath as if it was difficult to even remember the event. “The campaign manager is an asshole, and even more condescending than my father, which is a feat.”

I hadn’t met his father yet, but from everything Blake had said about him, he wasn’t a nice guy. It was a wonder Blake was.

“The media and a couple of reporters were there along with about two hundred faithful constituents. Dad said a couple of words, thanked his beautiful family, and shook a bunch of hands. And I got out of there as soon as I could.

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