Page 56 of High Side
“Ha!” That had her making the duck laugh noise. “Okay. Deal.”
“Excellent. So, do you have a winter dream job? I’m assuming you’ve already tried the forestry service?”
“There’s testing and stuff, and I can do it all, but they won’t hire on this round until spring. So I’d really like the hotel or the resort up at the mountain.” Brittany grins. “Mom says no maid work, which I was totally going to accept if it was offered.”
“Nah. You’d have to fight the regulars for those jobs. Go for activities or front desk. Those roll over most years.” Kylie sounded like she knew what she was talking about, and Brittany had to remember that she’d been here long enough to buy a condo.
Kyliewasa local.
“If neither of those work out, you might try the Chamber of Commerce. They were looking for someone to work the welcome center after Jennifer leaves to have her baby.” Kylie rolled her eyes. “Liz made me go to the last meeting. Oh my God, the boring.”
“Yeah?” That perked her up. Not the boring, but the chamber thing. That would be a great resume builder. “I’ll check on it in the morning.”
“Good deal.” Kylie snitched another piece of pizza from the box next to her. “Make sure you use Joe and Lupe for references. They both give great ones.”
“Will do.” Okay, she should have talked to Kylie sooner. Much like her mom, Kylie had great ideas. And she knew freakin’ everyone in Summit Springs.
“Cool. I like this pizza—it’s what? Greek?”
“Yeah. Spinach and olives and feta. Maybe artichoke hearts?” Brittany peered at it. “It was on special.”
“I like it. Salty goodness.”
Brit snorted. “My salt lick girl.”
Kylie’s eyebrow arched, and that expression went purely evil. “You like how I lick, girl.”
“I more than like it.” She brazened it out, even if her cheeks went hot. Kylie was one hell of a tease in the best way.
“Good thing we’ve both been having the garlic stuff, huh?” Kylie touched their pizza slices together like she as clinking glasses. “Sadie, don’t even think about it.”
The border collie withdrew her bared tooth, which had been about to hook the pizza box, and sat, looking judgy.
“She’s going to chew on your panties,” Brit warned. Sadie had a memory a mile long.
“I know. She’s a brat.” Kylie gave Sadie a piece of crust, though, didn’t she? “Did you get your homework done?”
“I did.”
“Want to play a rousing game of Gin Rummy?”
“Yes.” She’d never been with someone she just liked spending time with this way. No sex, no running out to socialize on dates. Just hanging. She could see that fireplace in her future, and being off the market didn’t bother her at all. Weird.
Weird, but wonderful.
“Cool. I’ll grab a pad and the cards. You have a pen?”
“I do.” She waggled her pen after she picked it up. “And a notebook. Just bring cards and your studly bod, my lady.”
Kylie gave her a happy smile and moved to get cards, and she set her laptop away for the evening.
She thought she had more prospects for getting what she wanted now than she had an hour ago, and that was a damn fine thing. Time to blow the rest off for a bit and hang out.
Twenty
Nervous didn’t even begin to cover what Kylie was feeling at the moment.
Brittany’s mom was coming down for a visit, and she was cleaning the hell out of the guest room, because no one ever went in there besides Sadie.
