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Kira might be my best friend, but she didn’t know everything about me. I just made sure to keep whatever romantic relations I’d had over the years away from the orchard. With women who knew the score.
I was good for a sweaty weekend when I needed to get my frustrations out with a willing woman. When it was over, I was back here where I belonged—taking care of the orchard and my family.
“You know, it would be good for you to enjoy some time with a woman.”
I sat up with a sigh. “You just have the rose-coloreds on because of Ronan.”
She glanced down at the flashing yellow diamond on her left hand. “Maybe. And that’s why I wanted to talk to you.”
“Finally going to make an honest man out of him?”
She rolled her eyes. “Don’t you start too. I haven’t had time to plan a wedding. I was making sure this place was ready for a new season. I didn’t expect to have so many parties in here during the off-season.”
Relaxing now that the topic had turned to work, I got up to find a bottle of hard cider in the shop fridge. Ronan always kept something new in there. “It was a cold winter, but we didn’t get nearly the snow we usually do.”
“I know it. And my budget definitely didn’t mind it. We have a tidy bank account to do some really amazing things this summer and fall.”
I found a bottle labeled with the number eleven and knocked off the top with the edge of the workbench. I took a long sip and my eyes nearly crossed at the flavor. It was whisky-smooth and had a cinnamon finish.
She grinned at me. “Good, right?”
“Amazing.”
“Still knocking around names, but think it’sNot Your Grandma’s Apple Pie.”
“Works for me. New theme is tongue in cheek this year?”
“Might be. We’ll see how it goes. You know how Ronan is when he’s in work mode.”
“That I do.” I tended to give Ronan a wide berth now that he’d proven his mettle. I sat back down on the couch in front of her. “Is that what you wanted to discuss? You know I trust you with whatever you want to do.”
“I appreciate that.” She twisted her ankles, her eyes focused on her hand again. She toyed with the underside of the band with her thumb.
“Everything okay?”
She laughed. “I think so. At least it better be or Ronan will make my life hell.”
I frowned. “You guys having trouble?”
“What? Oh, no. Not like that. In fact, we are moving up the date of the wedding.”
“Is that a bad thing?”
“Depends on if you’re going to be excited about being Uncle Beckett.”
“Oh, shit.” My gaze went right to her still flat middle. Kira was more on the curvy side, but not that damn curvy.
She giggled and slid her hand across her middle. “Yeah. We werenottrying, that’s for sure. Though you wouldn’t know it by Viking.”
“Okay, no details.”
She snickered. “No, really. We’ve both been so busy with the distribution deal for The B3 hard cider and me with the events. I just thought I was tired as hell from everything.”
I laughed. “Still managed to make a baby, now didn’t you?”
“I guess we did. We wanted kids, just thought we’d wait a little bit until the timing was better.”
“Sometimes timing doesn’t matter for them.”
