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“Yes, except there’s only a truth option. They start with little things they want you to admit. With the whiskey in your system, you start telling them shit you don’t want to. I’m almost sure they put something in the whiskey.”
“Okay, note to self never take whiskey from a Gregory.”I laughed. It wasn’t a bad idea to adopt.
“I don’t remember much of what they asked me but Luke told me the next day that I called you my sunshine. I apparently spilled my guts about you. How I screwed up on that vacation when I saw you and never made a move. Don’t worry they’re getting a good laugh about it.”
“Is that why I got the job? Some sort of favor or something?” Her entire body stiffened and recoiled from my touch.
“Hell no, they woke me up to tell me how overqualified you were. Thought it was hilarious that I missed the meeting. I wanted to be there, I swear.”
Her shoulder relaxed a bit at my confession. There was still apprehension in her voice as she tried to move past the conversation.
“So if you are kidnapping me for the day, did you have a plan?”
While I typically planned and knew what my days would look like, for the first time in a long while I didn’t. The only plan I had was to spend the entire day trying to prove to her how special she was.
“Well, I know one thing that we need to do. I owe you an ice cream.”
Her brow popped up at my statement. Wiggling herself into an upright position she looked back at me quizzically.“You do?”
I couldn’t help but grin. “I most certainly do. That night we had our first meal together. I offered to take you out for ice cream. I believe you told me your ass, which by the way is still just as perfect as it was two years ago, didn’t need it.”
She stared back at me for a moment before her eyes shifted as she tried to remember what I was talking about. The moment she remembered it, she looked back at me.
“How do you remember that?”
“I remember everything you said to me since I asked you for that stupid chair. I should have asked for your number instead.”
I meant it, although it was probably too soon to say it. Thoughts of Hannah consumed my every waking hour for the last two weeks. It devastated me when she ghosted me on that vacation. There wasn’t a chance in hell I was going to let her go a second time.
Chapter Seventeen
Hannah
Bryce wasn’t my first boyfriend. Sadly, he wasn’t my first for most things. Typically, that wouldn’t bother me, but a tiny knot formed in the depths of my stomach every moment I spent with him. Regret for every time another man put his hands on me.
Bryce: miss you
My phone danced in my pocket. The instant his name popped up on my phone, my face hurt from smiling. Typing back quickly, I shoved it back into my pocket before entering the barn.
Hannah: miss you more cowboy
“You know you love me.”The girl who I still hadn’t learned her name handed Evan a bag from the store. Presumably a lunch based on the chips I could see peeking out of the top. They were cute together, as was the flirtatious banter I heard as I walked up.
“Speaking of love, you must have just been talking with Mr. Bull rider, weren’t you sunshine?”
Realizing the conversation I walked in on just suddenly turned on me, I nodded.
“How’d ya know?”
Evan laughed looking over at his, whatever she was, and back at me.
“You get that grin that touches your ears. Don’t worry, Bryce had the same one when he played whiskey truth.”
I didn’t know the extent of what Bryce had told his brothers but apparently there was a big yelling match after the wedding. The only thing I got told was that an apology was coming my way. One by one, the Gregory brothers apologized for getting Bryce drunk and promised they would only call me sunshine if I was okay with it.
Getting a nickname on the farm felt like a rite of passage. Being called sunshine seemed like a fairly tame name to end up with. I graciously accepted the apologies and the name.
“I’m Hannah by the way.”Holding my hand out to the girl next to Evan she smiled and took it.
