All I Ever Wanted by Alexa Land

Author:Alexa Land [Land, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-10T22:00:00+00:00

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When we let ourselves into the warehouse about forty minutes later, my brother took one look at me and literally fell on the ground laughing. “It’s like performance art,” he managed after a minute. “Or a really bizarre game of charades. Minion at a rave? Is that what you were going for? I can’t believe you drove all the way over here like that.”

“With his head sticking out the window of the catering van,” Cole said. “People kept pulling up next to us and taking pictures. One guy even called the number on the side of the van to ask what we were doing.”

Skye sat up and pushed his royal blue bangs out of his eyes, and then he exclaimed, “Cole!” My brother leapt to his feet, ran across the big warehouse, and gave him a hug as he said, “Are you and River back together? Please say yes.”

Cole returned the hug and glanced at me with a shy smile. “We’re taking it slow, but yeah.”

“That’s fantastic news,” Skye said. “Why am I the last to know?”

I told him, “You’re among the first to know, actually. We just got back from Napa this morning, which is where we reconnected.”

“Aw, that’s great! So how was the wedding?”

I shot my brother a look over the top of the goggles and said, “Can we catch up after you surgically remove Quinn from my cranium?”

“Okay, okay. Come over to my tool bench.” As we crossed the warehouse, we sidestepped the metal framework of an enormous sculpture. It was just starting to take shape, and I could begin to make out a man’s agonized face as he clawed his way up from some sort of imagined underground. His hands were two separate sculptures, and his head and shoulders rose up nearly fifteen feet from the cement floor. My brother occasionally did commissioned work, but he’d told me the metal man was just for him.

Skye started laughing again a moment later and stopped in his tracks. As he pulled his phone from the front pocket of his overalls and fired off a text, he said, “We can’t free you until Dare sees this. Do you know that when you walk, the round yellow bird at the top of the cage starts rocking wildly on its little swing? It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.”

I raised a brow and said, “Seriously? You want me to wait like this until he gets here?”

“He just has to come downstairs. Dare and Haley and a couple other guys from the dance troupe are up on the roof, working on some choreography. I told them to get down here, stat.”

My brother-in-law and his friends came barreling into the warehouse just moments later. They all had a good laugh as I hauled Quinn around the warehouse for demonstration purposes, and apparently, the fake bird at the top of the dome enjoyed a vigorous ride on its swing. Finally, my brother located a metal cutter and snipped the rim along the base of the cage in two spots.

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