Come A Little Closer: A Halloween GrumpySunshine Novel by Parker Weston

Author:Parker, Weston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Star Key Press
Published: 2024-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

20

NIALL

After a weekend tangled in the sheets with Tallulah, I sat down in my office with only one thing on my mind—my girl.

These last couple days had been some of the best of my life and I couldn’t stop smiling. It was awful but wonderfully so.

For the first time in my life, I’d spent an entire weekend in just one woman’s company, and instead of getting bored, I was more intrigued by her than ever before. We’d talked, and laughed, and joked around. We’d cleaned up the decorations after the party and ended up fooling around in a pile of fake bats and spiderwebs.

We’d cooked together, showered together, and she’d told me a few more things she wanted to try together at some point. All in all, it really hadn’t felt like a one-and-done thing, and I was here for whatever would happen next.

Jake walked in while I sat there, smiling stupidly at my computer, and immediately, he grinned and shut the door behind him. “What exactly did you get up to this weekend that put you in such a good mood?”

“Nothing,” I said.

I wasn’t ashamed of Tallulah or what we had, but it was new and we hadn’t discussed telling anybody about it, let alone somebody who worked with us. Before I said anything to anyone about it, she and I needed to have a conversation. Until then, there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that I was talking.

“Just tell me what you need, Jakey.”

He grimaced. “Fine, but I’m afraid it’s bad news. I was hoping to get some good news before I broke this to you.”

I arched an eyebrow at him, my patience suddenly wearing thin. “What is it?”

“The contractors working on the old Lefevre house have run into some trouble,” he said. “The house was on our list of properties to be dressed up for Halloween, but renovations are running over. Apparently, Tallulah went out there this morning and now she’s trying to help them and prepare for the Hallow’s Eve Festival at the plantation.”

I sighed, dropping my head into my hands to massage my temples. On the one hand, I wasn’t surprised to hear that she had taken up yet another challenge, but on the other, I didn’t want her to spread herself too thin.

The old Lefevre house was one of the properties I owned and I had been allowing tours there for the last few months since I’d acquired it. Before I could put it back on the market though, it needed rather extensive renovations. Renovations that had been ongoing for a while, but I’d given the contracting team a deadline.

Since the historical society wanted the place in their clutches, I knew they would put a stop to any fun to be had there as soon as I sold it. I figured we’d send it off with a bang this Halloween and turn it into a spooky wonderland for all to enjoy before the society turned it into yet another drab and boring site.

Which was why I’d given the contractors the deadline, but it seemed they hadn’t met it.

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