There I Find Trust (Strawberry Sands Beach Romance Book 5) (Strawberry Sands Beach Sweet Romance) by Jessie Gussman

Author:Jessie Gussman [Gussman, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessie Gussman
Published: 2023-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Griff sat by the fire, the heat from the stove making him drowsy. Well, at least he had been drowsy before he started talking to Chi. He’d confessed that he was attracted to her, but she hadn’t returned the sentiment. He supposed he knew she wasn’t going to, but it had made him feel bad. Discouraged. Like there wasn’t any hope for them. All she was ever going to see him as was as an employee. Maybe her best employee, but also her only one.

Maybe that was why he told her that he had been a lawyer. That he had worked hard and had been successful. He wanted her to see him as someone worthwhile. Even as he told her that he had quit being a lawyer because he didn’t want people to see him that way.

Talk about irony.

And now she wanted to know why else he was working at the diner. He told her the altruistic reasons, and they were true. The diner was a blessing to the people in Strawberry Sands, and he was a part of that on a daily basis. He brought tourists in, just with his strawberry dishes, and with their signature dishes, they’d enticed people as well. This summer, they’d had more repeat visitors than they had the summer before. People who would come back saying they thought of the food of the diner all year and couldn’t wait to return to Strawberry Sands to vacation, yes, but also to visit the diner.

That had been his goal. To expand their customer base and have repeat customers.

It seemed to him that that was one way to grow business. A slow way, sure, but a tried-and-true way as well. As long as they continued to have quality food that enticed people to return.

“You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to,” Chi said, breaking into his thoughts.

He would rather think about the diner, about enticing people to come, than he would try to figure out what he could say to Chi to answer her question.

“I told you. There’s something about you that calls me. I... I wanted to be with you. So I stayed.”

That was the bottom line. It was all about Chi. He could have helped build a diner anywhere. It didn’t have to be in Strawberry Sands.

Strawberry Sands was where Chi was, and so that’s where he wanted to be too. He didn’t want to be where she wasn’t.

“That’s the second time you’ve insinuated that you...feel something for me.”

“And I asked you before, is that so hard to believe?” He wanted to be defiant about it, not humble. Being humble meant that he would give her the ability to hurt him. If he were defiant, he kept his walls up. And she couldn’t get in.

He was going back to his teenage days, when it was important to protect himself and the people around him. But he could trust Chi. Even if she didn’t return his feelings, she wasn’t going to make fun of him.

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