Uber Bossy: A Small Town Romantic Comedy (Jobs From Hell Book 2) by Marika Ray

Author:Marika Ray [Ray, Marika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marika Ray Publishing
Published: 2020-05-20T18:30:00+00:00

14

Jayden

“Oh Lord have mercy, Janey’s here,” Nora announced.

We all looked around and Bain and Lucy cracked a huge grin. Meanwhile I was lost.

“Who’s Janey?” I swiveled my head around, but didn’t see anything unusual.

Until a group of teens moved off to the side and an older woman was revealed standing alone with quite a weight on her back.

“Oh shit…” I mumbled. “It’s that damn baby goat that forced itself on me.”

Nora gasped. “That was the goat? The one who frenched you?”

At my nod she threw her head back and burst into laughter. Bain and Lucy joined her, looking between the poor baby goat strapped to the back of Janey in a baby carrier and my disgusted face. The thing bleated miserably and then started chewing on the ribbon tied to Janey’s ponytail. I shivered in the waning afternoon heat, reliving the moment he’d taken a swipe at my tonsils.

“I think I need to hear this story,” Bain said after Nora got ahold of herself.

She kept wiping tears from her eyes and bursting back into laughter.

“Janey lives between here and Monterey. She’s an eccentric old lady. Ever heard of women getting on in years and getting a whole herd of cats like Yedda?”

“Don’t you mean a clowder?” I smirked at her.

She beamed at me. “Yes, exactly right. Well, Janey here didn’t care for cats, so she started adopting goats. Whenever they get too big, she puts them in her acre yard and gets a new kid to wear around. She’s perfectly harmless, I swear.”

“Tell that to my tonsils,” I muttered, putting Red down to have him work on his walking while Nora told my brother and Lucy about that day in the airplane.

Not long after, Bain and Lucy said goodbye and left the fair to put Roxy down for the night. Red rubbed his eyes with one slobbery fist and I figured we’d better do the same. As we walked around, the tiny goat zeroed in on me and stared me down from its perch on Janey’s back. It was beyond creepy, but what else could you expect from Auburn Hill?

“I know the sun’s barely going down, but I need to put Red down soon or he’ll get super cranky. Do you want to stay with your friends? I can probably still catch up with Bain.” I really wanted her to come with me, but I couldn’t ask that of her. I was the single parent here, not her.

She threaded her arm through mine and snuggled close. “Nah, I’ll stick with you boys. I’m tired too.”

We walked out of the fairgrounds holding hands for all to see. I should have been freaked out by the rumors that would surely start, but oddly, I wasn’t. Half the damn night I felt like I was living in a movie. The whole scene was idyllic—minus the goat—entirely too good to be true. Here I was in a tiny little town along the coast with newfound friends, my brother and his family, a job, a fair with lights and sounds that fascinated Red, and most of all Nora.

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