On One Condition by K. Bromberg

Author:K. Bromberg [Bromberg, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: S.I.N. Series, Book 2
Publisher: JKB Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Asher

“Meet me in Bear Valley? That’s it? After you leave the whole of Cedar Falls talking after last night, that’s the text you’re going to send me?” Nita says as she meets me on the sidewalk in Bear Valley, where I’ve been waiting for her to meet me.

“It worked, right?” I give her a quick hug. “You’re here.”

“I am here. You’re just lucky my babysitter was available today or else you’d be standing here with that smug grin on your face waiting forever.”

“Remind me to thank her.”

“Noted.”

“And screw the town for talking.” I shrug as we begin to walk slowly down the sidewalk. And I mean that, sincerely. I refuse to let their stupid gossip affect anything about what happened last night in a negative way. “At least I’ve actually earned the gossip they’re dishing on me this time around.”

“True,” she says and then nudges me. “So . . .”

“So . . .” I toy with her. “Dare I even ask what the gossip is about?”

Nita laughs. “Wayne’s curious how a man can last that long.”

Wayne? The man who knocked on the bathroom door at Connor’s. “Poor Mrs. Wayne then.”

“I know, right? And Judy Jensen is grumbling over how it’s you who pulled in the new, wealthy, eligible bachelor in town when she clearly has more to offer him than you do.”

“Fuck her,” I say as I point to a cute shirt displayed in a storefront.

“My sentiments exactly,” Nita says as she angles her head to look at it.

We window-shop. This is our thing, the way we spend time together and unwind. When you struggle financially, there’s not much else you can do, so we’ve fallen into this routine where we head here or there and stroll around while we talk.

“Nah,” she finally says as we move to the next window. “That color washes me out.”

“What about Carson?” I grimace. “I need to call him and apologize.”

“He’s fine.” She rolls her eyes and swats at my arm. “He came back into the bar. One minute nursing his bruised ego. The next lying about how he knocked the guy—er, Ledger—out cold.”

“Which didn’t happen, by the way, but if people believe that then they should also believe I was bringing Ledger back to consciousness with a little mouth-to-mouth,” I say coyly with a flutter of my lashes.

Nita bursts out laughing. “Personally? I think every woman in town is jealous of you, so you just keep on doing what you’re doing because you know what? Screw them.”

“I’m not going to argue on that one.”

“So, because there is in fact gossip and you did in fact disappear from Connor’s, can I assume the two of you worked through your differences, then?” She leans in and looks closely at a diamond pendant in the jewelry store display.

“In so many words, yes.”

“And the answers you were looking for were satisfactory and that more than kissing happened—according to Wayne, that is.”

I laugh and point to a yellow diamond ring that sparkles. “Wayne is correct, yes, but you already knew that.

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