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“Well, I picked up a starter for your car today. Hopefully that will take care one of one of the stressors in your life. I can pop it for you while I wait for Graham.”
“I can’t ask you to do that.”
“You’re not asking. I’m offering, and I already have the part.”
“Thank you,” she said looking up at him with enough earnestness in her eyes to nearly take his breath away.
"I got some burgers to put out on the grill. I was just about to hop in the shower after I finish your car, but then I was gonna grill. Do you want to join me? By that time our guest here should be gone," he said, giving Angus another pat and he answered with a loud long moo.
She bit her lip and Lucas prepared himself for the sting of rejection, but that lip trapped between her lips turned up ever so slightly.
"Okay, I'll bring dessert."
He tried not to let the joy he felt at that show on his face. "Perfect! I'll meet ya out on the deck in a bit," he said. When what he really wanted to do was jump up and down like he'd just won the fucking lottery.
After he got the starters swapped out a big truck pulled up Graham got out. Graham made his way over to Lucas who led into their backyard. Graham shook his head and muttered to the cow in Gaelic.
"Sorry about this. This one here likes to wonder," Graham said, giving the cow a big smack on the ass.
"No harm done... well, maybe some hydrangea damage done."
"Oh, did Angus eat her flowers?" Graham said with a small cringe.
Lucas nodded.
"I'll make it up to her," Graham said as the trailer groaned beneath the weight of the massive bovine.
Just then Sadie came out of her house to join them. Graham shut the back of the trailer before he turned to Sadie. "I do apologize about yer flowers, I'll repay ye," he said with a slight bow.
Lucas could never put his finger on it, he liked Graham, but something about it always seemed like he never quite fit in this century.
"Don't worry about it," Sadie said, waving him off. "It's totally fine."
"I apologize all the same."
Lucas and Sadie stood there in their driveaway as Graham drove off with a trailer and the mooing beast.
"Does he always wear a kilt?" Sadie asked with her head cocked to the side.
"Not always, but a lot. He owns the farm up on the hill and he runs it as if he were in 1750's Scotland."
"Really?" Sadie said looking over at him with a face that showed too much fascinating for his taste. Even he had to admit that Graham was an extremely attractive man.
"Yeah, he's married to Hannah. They just had twins a few months ago."
He was just sharing information... not trying to dissuade her from being attracted to Graham, because that would be silly.
"Hmmm," she said.
“I’m gonna hop in the shower before I get the burger’s ready. Meet you on my back patio in fifteen?”
“Yeah, that sounds good.”
After he was out of the shower he popped open a beer and got to work seasoning the burgers before heading out. As he got the burgers on the grill Sadie’s screen door opened and he had to bite back the grin that wanted to spread wide across his face.
"Do you want a beer?" he asked.
"Yeah," she said with an easy smile that settled deep inside of him.
