Good as Gold by Sarina Bowen

Author:Sarina Bowen [Bowen, Sarina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tuxbury Publishing LLC
Published: 2023-05-31T23:00:00+00:00

The night finally ends, and we ride home along a sleepy highway in silence. When I drop him off, Rory asks me if I can hire him again, and I guiltily say yes before the truck door slams.

In the morning, I wake up to more signs of summer in the orchard. The trees are bursting with pear blossoms and happy bees.

As the season progresses, I’ve begun to feel weirdly settled.

I’ve learned how to sleep through the rooster’s noise. I still hear him at dawn, but now I roll over and go back to sleep. And when I lie in my trailer at night, I’m serenaded by the frogs and the owls. With the windows open, the sound of nature is surprisingly loud.

The only thing that keeps me awake is that Leila is still avoiding me. It’s been a couple of weeks now. Maybe I’m not the only one with an intimacy hangover. But I don’t know what to do about it.

Then one Sunday night—after another long weekend of pouring beers in the beer wagon—Alec calls me from the bar. “Hey, dude. You busy?”

“Why?” I ask warily. “This was my night off.”

He chuckles. “Calm down. I’m not asking you to work. But there’s a certain friend of yours sitting at the bar lookin’ sad.”

“Hell, is it Rory?”

“No way. I wouldn’t bother you about that. It’s Leila. She just looks like she could use a friend.”

“Oh.” I rub my forehead, wondering what she’d think if I turned up to talk to her. Then I have an unsettling thought. “Hey, Alec, what’s she drinking?”

“Gin and tonic. She’s only on her second, so this isn’t an intervention.”

“Cool. Thanks, man.” I’m already on my feet. “I think I’m in the mood to have a drink myself.”

He laughs. “I bet.”

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