Conditional Offer (Stewart Realty) by Liz Crowe

Author:Liz Crowe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Tri Destiny Publishing
Published: 2012-10-19T11:52:26+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

"Hey, Red!" Suzanne's business partner Evan snapped his fingers under her nose. "We have a problem. Are you even listening?"

She shook her head, gulped some water, and tried to focus on something other than Craig finally being back in town. The past nearly four years that she'd known Craig Robinson had been so…strange. She'd been struck by him the moment she met him. His boyish, open manner, and extreme blond, casual good looks had her by the short hairs within minutes. That day – when he'd still been with Sara – was a life changer for her and she knew it now. Admitting it to herself, however, was another thing altogether.

"Okay, so…." she brought her attention back to the crisis du jour at Big House Brewing. It was Summer Beer Fest Week, and her entire staff had just fallen victim to food poisoning they'd gotten at an informal picnic they'd thrown for themselves. She sighed and stretched. So she and her business partner got to do the honors for a giant beer fest. Going back to the basics of pouring beer for thousands of drinkers at the largest two-day beer event in the Midwest sounded daunting, but something in her craved that kind of direct re-contact with her beer-drinking public. "You and I have to set up and man the whole thing. I got it. I can get Craig." Evan raised an eyebrow at her but she ignored him. "You bring Julie. Hell, see if Jack wants to help. God knows he knows as much about our beers as we do and he can run his fool mouth like a champ. We can do this."

She rose, feigning nonchalance but her ears were fuzzy and her chest was so tight she could hardly breathe. Craig was back, today, at his old condo. He had something to ask her. Evan leaned back in his chair and studied her. "Craig, eh?"

"Yeah, what about him?" She threw her laptop in her bag and shuffled papers around nervously. Her hands shook, so she stopped and forced herself calm. "Sorry. Didn't mean to snap at you."

"It's okay. You deserve some happiness Suzanne. Go for it. But do us all a favor and don't talk yourself out of it this time?"

Her face got hot, but she had no response. Her brief and very intense relationship with Blake, Sara's brother, had ended badly for them both – but at her insistence. She had spent plenty of hours second-guessing that choice, but based upon how happy Blake seemed now with her old college friend, Rob, and their brew pub, she felt like he had ended up better off. She hadn't sustained any sort of relationships since. But being alone did not intimidate her. And after surviving a marriage that had turned abusive and very nearly killed her, then diving into an intensely passionate affair with Blake, she convinced herself the time alone was required.

Since that last messy encounter with Craig in Nashville, she'd gone on a date with a man who had seemed promising.

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