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“Fuck.”
“Hey, it’s okay. You’re the boss. Only one who’s gonna yell at you is you.”
“Obviously since you’re calling me…”
“Right.” Justin cleared his throat. “Well, we have that meeting with old man Brennan about the tractor.”
“Fuck.” I covered my eyes. “I forgot.”
“A certain blond can easily make a man forget about an old tractor.”
“Yeah.” I collapsed onto the bench at the end of my bed and bowed my head. My whole focus had been on planning the night for her. Not the busy Tuesday that I should have been worried about.
“Hey, man. Don’t sweat it. I’ll just grab Mike and we’ll take care of it.”
“It’s not your damn job.”
“Well, maybe it should be.”
My shoulders tensed. “Jus—”
“No, hear me out. This is minor shit for sure. I can take care of it. Ishouldbe taking care of it.”
I gritted my teeth. “It’s a big purchase.”
“It is. But who else on this orchard knows more about what we need in a tractor?”
I couldn’t say anything to that one. Justin was our version of a tech guy. He fixed all the machines, kept them running. Truly, he was central to the orchard. I could work my ass off all day and night, but I didn’t have a knack when it came to maintaining more than an oil change on my truck.
“I’ll be right down.”
Justin sighed through the phone. “All right. See ya in a few.” And he hung up.
I tossed my phone at my jeans, which were still in a pile on the damn floor. “Fuck.” I glanced over my shoulder to see Helena curled in my bed, her face still soft in sleep.
My responsibilities to the orchard were bigger than this. That damn tractor was needed for harvest since ours had finally died. Brennan had transitioned into using bigger tree shakers for his fields, but I still felt there was too much waste that way.
Too many bruised apples and the only way Brothers Three would stand out from all the apple orchards in this part of New York was our superior product.
Me and my team had worked damn hard to prove that and we wouldn’t be stopping now.
I slipped into the bathroom and took a quick shower. My muscles were sore and tense from Kain and a lack of sleep. I definitely hadn’t given my body a chance to recharge the night before. In fact, curling my body around Helena had screwed up my natural sleeping patterns in more ways than one.
A weekend here and there with a woman was much different than having someone in my space. Hell, someone in my head all the time.
I tipped my head back and let a blast of cold water jolt me the rest of the way awake.
I needed to keep my eye on the orchard and my family. It came first.
Not the fairytale lying in my bed.
I dried off and got dressed before she stirred. The swath of blond hair tumbled across my pillows gilded in sunlight didn’t help my mood. I should have been gone and in the fields hours ago and I kept forgetting that because I wanted to get my dick wet?
I fisted my hands even at the thought.
Because…no. No, it wasn’t just sex and I couldn’t even pretend it was. Sex I understood. Sex was easy. I could walk away from easy.
She was hard.
