No To The Grump: A Spicy Enemies to Lovers Rom Com by Lindsey Hart

Author:Lindsey Hart [Hart, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Passion House Publishing
Published: 2023-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Thaddius

We’re still standing at the door, sopping wet. The chickens are walking around. There are five of them in here now, and they seem just as comfy and happy as if they were outside or in their coop. They’ll make themselves at home. I just hope the rain lets up before the real crapping fest begins. I don’t mind cleaning up a few poos, but five chickens? They can create a real mess.

The cat, Butterscotch, is a wet mop. Don’t ask me why he’s named such because he’s not creamy or toffee-colored. He’s a midnight black long-haired cat, but he came with the place, and he also came with the name because the guy who owned the farm before I took over seemed to name the animals willy-nilly as he saw fit. Anyway, he looks just like us…like we were caught in a torrential downpour. Because, yeah, we were.

And then there’s Nina.

My heart picks up speed just looking at her. She’s so beautiful, but her true beauty is that she can laugh at things like this. Her long hair is plastered around her face and shoulders, and that wretched clown on her shirt is now a drowned clown, but it’s still smiling that horrible clown smile. Her skirt is pressed up against the curve of her hips and every inch of her long, lithe legs while her boots appear drowned out. She throws her head back, leans against the wall with her butt, and laughs. She’s pure joy. It’s so tempting to have that, to hold it near me, to partake in it, and want it for myself. Even if I know I can’t have it, it’s impossible not to be affected by it.

What’s happening to me that I find all these farty sunshine rainbows not so annoying now?

I laugh too. I laugh until my shoulders shake, my stomach hurts, and water starts beading off me in unusual spots because my muscles are working that hard.

“I spent almost my entire life trying to attain some level of perfection.” I don’t know why I said that. It just popped out. I haven’t told anyone how I really feel about the money I now have. “Even when I was little, I was always so competitive. It wasn’t just about winning. It was about doing my best. I was really only racing against myself, trying to beat myself and come out on top of what I’d already done. No one pushed me. I just pushed myself. I was like that all through elementary school and then high school and college. I don’t know what I thought I had to prove, but whatever it was, I guess I did it. There always had to be something more, something better, something to achieve. When I sold that software and made all that money, I kept thinking to myself, what now? And the only answer I kept coming up with was that I needed a break.”

Nina’s face is sympathetic. “I think I know what you mean.

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