Midsummer Sinners: A Man of the Month Club Novella: A Grumpy Meets Sunshine Small-Town Romance by Gia Bailey

Author:Gia Bailey [Bailey, Gia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

EVERETT

I hadn’t expected to be bringing Summer back to my cabin. Hell, I’d never dared dream of that as a possibility. Summer was too good for me, too sweet and innocent. She was supposed to be off limits.

As I drove along the winding track that brought us closer to the cabin I’d bought and done up, I realised what an idiot I’d been. Not only had I been denying the inevitable, but I’d been totally disregarding her feelings. I’d been deciding for both of us and making each of us miserable.

I didn’t want to control Summer. She didn’t need that. She knew what she wanted, and for some fucked up reason, she seemed to want me. Maybe there really was a second chance for sinners. I was done running from her. But I wouldn’t let her get deeper into this thing between us without her knowing exactly who she wanted.

Brutal unflinching honesty, and then she could decide.

“Where are we going, if I’m allowed to ask?” Summer asked, her usually sweet voice hard and tight with tension.

“Home. My home. You still need to do your ritual, right?” I reminded her. She blinked at me, her animosity dropping nearly completely. “You said it was your tradition with your mom, and it means a lot to you.” That was right. I might not talk a lot, but I was good at listening, and there was no one I’d rather listen to than this woman. She nodded and bit her lip.

“Ok. Thanks,” she tacked on. I merely nodded and kept driving. The air between us was more settled now. The tension becoming the same kind that usually brewed in the air whenever we were in the same room too long. The edge of my property came into sight, and I pulled the cruiser in and parked. The cabin was modest, but it suited my needs nicely. Of course, there was plenty of land around it for building more on, if I ever had a family, but that was getting ahead of myself. I had spent a year telling myself I didn’t deserve any of that. I still wasn’t sure that could change.

“This is your place? It’s beautiful,” Summer said, leaning forward to look up out of the windscreen. The sky was turning grey with the oncoming storm, and the place was dark, since I’d been at work all day, but even then, the view of the mountains around it was spectacular.

“Yep. I’ve been fixing it up, bit by bit. It’s not exactly luxurious, not yet anyway,” I rambled. Summer raised an eyebrow at me.

“You’re talking to someone who duct taped themselves to a tree for two days, remember?” Summer prompted, easing the tension slightly between us. She relaxed back in her seat. “Why did you bring me here instead of kicking me out of the car in town and being done with all this?” she asked, looking out the windscreen and not at me.

“Maybe, despite what I say, I don’t want to be done with all this.

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