Until I Met You by Tari Faris

Author:Tari Faris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance;FIC042040;FIC027020
ISBN: 9781493426584
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2020-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

This couldn’t be happening. Libby sprinted through the front door of the schoolhouse and did her best to tug a box of books away from the steady stream of drips. The muscles in her shoulders burned as the moist cardboard scraped against the wet floor. She gave another tug just before the soggy box gave way and sent a pile of books across the floor.

Libby landed with a thud on her backside. Maybe she needed to get help, but Olivia was working tonight, and Austin had been the one who had told her the roof wasn’t ready. Ugh—she hated it when he was right. But it wasn’t even supposed to rain until the end of the week. Leave it to Michigan’s weather to turn on a dime.

There was no way around it. She’d made another wrong decision, and she didn’t need an I-told-you-so lecture right now.

Libby picked up one of the spilled books and thumbed through the soggy pages. They were already beginning to pucker. If too many got damaged, she wouldn’t have enough to make a full library.

The beating of the rain against the window stole any hope it would end soon. Maybe she could make sure every box was in a dry spot. She glanced around the room as a drop of water splattered on her cheek. Ahh! Was there no safe spot in this building? She eyed the ceiling as water snaked across the rafters, finding new avenues to the floor.

She shoved to a stand, pulled up her hood, and tightened her coat. Rain prickled her cheeks as she rushed out the front door. Dusk had come early with the thick clouds blocking out the sun.

Libby circled the building until she located the offending corner and squinted beyond the rain. The wind had pulled free the plastic that had been nailed down in this corner. It seemed like an easy fix. The ladder still rested against the roof, and someone had left a few tools in the corner of the schoolhouse. She raced back inside, dodging a puddle that was forming at the bottom of the stairs.

The old Libby would never have considered climbing a ladder in the rain, but she was a new, improved Libby. She could do this.

When she got to the corner of the schoolhouse armed with a hammer and a few nails, the ladder seemed to have grown. This was possibly a very bad idea, but how hard could it be to grab that plastic, pull it down over the corner, and secure it?

Libby slid the nails into her coat pocket and looked at the hammer. How did people carry a hammer up a ladder? Holding it in her left hand, she used it like a claw as she climbed up.

One step. Two. Three. Four.

Maybe she should stop counting. Rung by rung she made her way to the top. She shivered against the howling wind and reached for the plastic. It was well out of reach, and unless she wanted to channel her inner Spider-Man and walk on the wet roof, there was no way she’d get to it.

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