Willow Creek by T. L. Haddix

Author:T. L. Haddix
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: T L Haddix
Published: 2022-11-10T14:08:28+00:00

Chapter 15

Coming downstairs to find Colin waiting on her, uncertainty on his face and a box of donuts in hand, helped ease the lingering guilt Ezri still felt over their recent interactions. Having him apologize to her had floored her. Having him ask her out again? That made her day—possibly her week.

She’d been nervous, knowing she’d be seeing him Tuesday morning, and not only because Logan would have her present her ideas to a client for the first time. Even though she and Colin had declared a truce of sorts, she still wasn’t sure he had accepted her apology in any meaningful way that would make going forward and working together pleasant, never mind anything else that might develop between the two of them.

An hour into the presentation, things were going well. Though he’d had a lot of questions about the design she’d come up with, she could tell Colin was impressed. There was little he’d outright rejected, and only a few things he wanted to change so far.

“Overall, it’s a solid design, and my hands are itching to move dirt since someone dropped a deed off at my house yesterday for that flat property,” he said, sending an exaggerated glower at his parents.

“Yeah, it’s almost like we want you to stick close by or something,” Logan drawled, smugly amused.

“As opposed to the innumerable attempts to get rid of me when I still lived at home? Like the time you told me you were renting my room out to exchange students, or the time you told me the house was being fumigated and my room was going to be uninhabitable for six months, or the time you told me you were converting all the bedrooms to yoga studios?” Colin shot back, grinning. He gathered the empty plates and took them to the sink.

“Or the time he told you we were selling the house and becoming vagabonds,” Amelia added.

“My favorite was when we told him we’d become minimalists, and all the furniture had to go, starting with his room and the living room.” Logan gave a diabolical cackle and rubbed his hands together as he got up for a coffee refill. “We’d bought new furniture for the entire living room, which he didn’t know, since he’d been away for a couple of weeks. When he came back, we were sitting on floor cushions. The old furniture had already been re-homed, and the delivery of the new furniture had been delayed a week. That tactic grew some legs. He was just about on the verge of buying it when the truck pulled up from the furniture store.”

Colin rolled his eyes as they all laughed. “I knew better. I was yanking your chain, Dad.”

“Yeah, but you moved to the apartment a few months after that,” Logan pointed out. He pulled Colin into a careful, hair-tousling headlock and pretended to throw punches.

“And the next day, Logan was down there, helping him move in, asking him when he was coming back,” Amelia said, watching them tussle, her eyes full of affection.

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