Whiskey Kiss: A Small-town Romance by V McFarlane

Author:V McFarlane [McFarlane, V]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-six

Taron

The week passes with very little interaction with Penny other than a few chaste kisses when the kids aren’t looking and a couple of murmured words. She leaves almost immediately when I get home, I thought maybe it was because of how late it was but on one of the days I cut my day short and got home a little while after the kids got back from school but she still left. She makes dinner every day and it’s always delicious and she bakes, bread, cakes, pastries.

Everything she makes is perfection, you can never just have one cake or pastry. Sometimes two isn’t even enough and I’m not too proud to admit that I’ve found myself in the kitchen at two A.M., snacking on the fluffy bread or tart apple dumplings. If I didn’t have a routine with my workouts I would have definitely piled on the extra pounds. The only problem, Penny’s never here for me to tell her how good it all is.

I don’t like it. She’s there but not really and I can’t help but feel like she’s pushing me away, keeping me at arm’s length so we don’t get too close. I see her looking at me when she thinks I don’t, I see the way her eyes eat me up hungrily and her breathing changes whenever I get close. There are feelings there so what is it she’s so afraid of?

“What’re you thinking?” Rhett asks Friday afternoon.

“Penny,” I admit.

Rhett’s the only one who knows, other than Carla but even she has no idea what’s going on. She just jumped to conclusion which I neither confirmed nor denied.

I trust he won’t go blabbing. He hates gossip as much as Penny, God knows he had to deal with a shit ton when his uncle died.

“What about her?”

“She’s just distant,” I shrug.

“You’re really into her,” he states. It’s not a question, an observation. I nod anyway. “She’s a single mom, no?”

“She is.”

“Maybe she’s just focused on her little one, I can only imagine it’s tough.”

She did say Ava struggled with the new routine.

“You should do something for her,” Rhett nods as he continues, “She’s been working for you for a week now and even you’ve said how easy everything is now. Show her how much you appreciate it.”

I never once thought I’d be getting relationship advice from Mr bed em’ and leave em’ himself. Is that what we were? In a relationship? We hadn’t clarified anything, but she doesn’t shy away from me when I kiss her or pull her into me.

“You’re right,” I agree, “That’s a great idea.”

“Full of em’, me,” Rhett chuckles, “See ya later, boss.”

“Bye,” I wave to him and then lean back into my chair, scrubbing a hand over my mouth and then pull my phone from my pocket, bringing up Penny’s contact information. I choose to call over texting and wait for her to pick up.

“Hey,” she answers a little breathless, “Everything okay?”

“Yeah, what’re you doing?”

“Oh,” she laughs, “We’re playing hide and seek,” her voice drops in volume, “Ripley’s it.

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