Love Off-Limits by Proctor Jenny

Author:Proctor, Jenny [Proctor, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798494214287
Google: 1ZbPzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Four Petal Press
Published: 2021-02-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Olivia

Truly, there wasn’t anyone who had a bigger heart than my cantankerous father. But I could kick him in the shins for grilling Tyler as hard as he did.

While Tyler handled another volley of questions about what he planned to do after his summer at Stonebrook, I motioned for Mom to follow me into the kitchen.

“What did you tell him?” I asked her, my eyes wide, my arms crossed over my chest.

Mom only shrugged. “Nothing. I told him you met a man at Rosie’s wedding and that you really liked him. And that you ended up hiring him for the summer.”

“That’s not nothing.”

She held her hands up. “Well you didn’t tell me not to say anything. What would you have us do? Pretend like he’s a total stranger and we’ve never even heard of him?”

“Yes. Precisely. That would be amazing.”

Mom rolled her eyes. “Why did you hire him?”

“I don’t want to leave him out there with Dad long enough to explain. He just . . . needed to get away from his old job and get out on his own for a while.”

“What did he do before?”

I peeked back into the studio to make sure Tyler was okay. He was smiling, at least, except, was that tension around his eyes? Probably. How could it not be?

“He was a cameraman for Random I. I told you about Isaac, right? Rosie’s husband?”

“You did, though I don’t understand any of that YouTube nonsense. He was the cameraman, you say? That’s a far cry from goat farming.”

“He’s just here for the summer, Mom. He’s not looking to start up a farming career.”

She sighed. “Are you sure we can’t keep him? I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of looking at him.”

“Mom!” I swatted her on the arm.

She grinned. “What? You can’t blame me. He must like you, Liv. He’s here. That has to mean something.”

I shook my head. “It only means that we’re friends, emphasis on the friends, and he needed a job to keep him busy while he figures some stuff out. That’s all.”

She eyed me, her lips pursed. “Perry thinks it’s more than that.”

“Perry has been talking to you about me?”

She looked at me like I was sitting in a canoe with only one oar in the water. “He eats dinner at my table every night. What else are we supposed to talk about?”

“How about Perry’s love life? Is he seeing anyone? Anyone for Dad to mercilessly grill?”

She chuckled. “So you are seeing Tyler.”

“No! That’s not—” I huffed. “You’re trying to trap me into admitting something, and I swear there’s nothing to admit. What does Perry think?”

“That Tyler must have some ulterior motive. Perry can’t figure out why he’d be here otherwise.”

Admittedly, I’d been surprised myself that Tyler had agreed to take the job. Even more surprised that he’d stayed after I’d done such a thorough job of keeping my distance. I hadn’t been able to give him the job he’d hoped for, and then I’d rejected the possibility of a relationship.

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