Finding Love in the Hay Bale Maze: Pumpkin Patch Romances (Book #6) by London James

Author:London James [James, London]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Long Valley Press
Published: 2022-10-16T23:00:00+00:00

NINE

JULIA

The hay bale hit the ground mere feet from her feet, and Julia jumped back, letting out a tiny scream.

“Sorry!” the man on the truck bed yelled.

She glanced up at him, muttering under her breath with a slight growl in her voice. “It’s not like you couldn’t see me standing here.”

She glanced around at the different piles of hay bales. While most had been unloaded from the truck and were in piles around, there were still two truckloads waiting to be unloaded. Men walked in every direction, and with the maze plans in their hands, they pointed toward different areas of Murry’s field—the location Wes secured from the local family for the maze site. Everyone had a job, and everyone had a section, and as the rest of the bales were unloaded in Julia’s section, she yanked the plans out of her back pocket, glancing over them.

“I’m sure glad I took an allergy pill this morning,” her mother said, scratching her forehead. “What section are we doing again?” She glanced over Julia’s shoulder, pointing at the piece of paper.

“This corner. But we should wait until they create this line here.” She pointed toward the connecting outer wall and then toward several workers who were working on the wall. “That way, we know we are in line.”

“So, we are just supposed to wait?” Her mother’s eyes squinted from the sun as she looked around.

Julia nodded. “We could eat lunch. I’m starving.”

“Me too. I packed us some sandwiches. They are in a cooler in the car.”

They headed over to where her mother had parked, and while her mother got the cooler from the trunk, Julia grabbed a blanket from the back seat and laid it on the ground.

“So, are you ever going to explain what that is all about?” Her mother pointed across the field toward Wes who was walking around with two women. Although he had tried to talk to Julia when she arrived to help, she had managed to avoid him.

Thankfully.

“I don’t understand what you mean.”

“Who are they?”

“The blond is his sister, Michelle, and the black-haired one is Monica, his ex-fiancée.”

Her mother’s head whipped around to face her. “His what?”

“You heard me.” Julia shot her a look as she reached for the cooler and opened the top, looking down inside before she reached in and pulled out the wrapped sandwiches.

“When did she get into town? And why is she here?”

“Yesterday and I don’t know. She showed up at the inn while I was there to go over the plans.”

“And what did he do?”

“We were pretty much finished, so he went off to talk to her, and I left.”

Her mother’s mouth fell open. “And you didn’t think to tell me because?”

Julia unwrapped her sandwich in her lap, taking her thumb to her lips to lick off a bit of mayonnaise. “I didn’t think it was that important.”

Her mother glanced up at the sky. “She didn’t think it was important?”

“Who are you talking to when you do that?”

“Whoever will listen, which is God for one.

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