Perfect Risk (Mason Creek #1) - C.A. Harms Page 0,28
was fine with her sitting her all night and talking to me. I think I could listen to her talk about anything and not get bored. Just the sound of her voice managed to soothe me in a way that I hadn’t felt before.
Sadie was always interesting, for different reasons between now and when we were in school. Her mind was intriguing, the way she looked at the world. She’d always been passionate about things other girls couldn’t care less about. It was how she and I first became friends, when she’d been assigned to tutor me. Yeah, I was the jock that thought that sports alone was all I needed to survive.
When she and I were together, I found her to be beyond interesting. She read so much, she was like a sponge that absorbed it all and could get so lost in conversations. Much like today, watching her become so invested in the stories she told, or the experiences she’d lived captured me. I didn’t want it to end, now that I had her here, I wasn’t ready for her to walk away. My fear was that tomorrow we’d be right back to square one and tonight would only be a fading memory.
But my hope was tonight was a new beginning for us. That we were paving a path that I know without a doubt good led to something amazing.
I walked through the doors of Pony Up, finally relaxing after a long day of manual labor. Finishing up another two jobs that have been lingering in the background felt good, my list was finally getting smaller.
I was ready to relax.
Beau held up his hand signaling he was near the bar and I moved across the room in his direction.
“Where have you been?” He passed a beer over his shoulder before reaching back to the bar to grab his own.
“Finishing up the Willis barn” That project had been a thorn in my side. I wasn’t sad to see it done. Mr. Willis was a stubborn man, when he should be tearing down the old barn and redoing it, he kept insisting on doing a little section at a time. I did all I could to save it, but I made sure to tell him my recommendations too. Those were dismissed fast and I drove away shaking my head.
Old timers, there was no reasoning with them.
“You should have called me, I would have helped ya wrap it up.” I’ll admit that I’m stubborn too, I like to work alone. It’s less of a chance that something fell through the cracks if I’m the one performing each task to ensure its done to my liking.
“Where’s everyone else?” I scanned over the area as I asked the question and immediately landed on Sadie.
Holy hell! My knees may have grown a little weak. Jeans, ass hugging jeans, tucked into a pair of boots, and that shirt. If I’d thought the one she wore the night she was locked out of her house showed off her form, it had nothing on the one she wore tonight. Red, snug and off the shoulder. Did I mention she looked hot?
“I heard you two shared a dinner the other night.”
I was invested on watching her move her hips as she danced next to Anna, Tate, Miley and a few others. Her back was to me, which gave me the perfect view of her ass and I’ll admit my own jeans were feeling a little tighter.
“Was it just dinner?”
“I’m sure Anna already filled you in.” The idea that Sadie told Anna at all meant she was talking about me, which I liked. “She brought me dinner, I invited her to join me. We ate, talked, and it was nice.”
“Nice,” he nodded his head and looked out toward the dance floor. “I heard it referred to as a night she didn’t want to end, but nice is good too.”
It was hard to know when Beau was attempting to get a rise out of me. I never knew when he was being honest. “She said that?”
“Apparently Anna and her had a heart to heart earlier and then she ended up on your doorstep. From what Anna said, Sadie was a little hesitant because she didn’t want to look like a fool if you ended up being the same guy you were back when.”
“So, she’s interested?”
“Would she have shown up on your door and took you up on the offer to stay if she wasn’t?”