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Hank chuckled, then pulled out a hanky from his pocket to touch the papers. “Oh, look at the blueprints. Do they match the house?”
“I haven’t had time to spread them out on the table and look.”
“Well, I don’t want to damage them…” Hank tapped his other fingers against his chin before putting all the papers back in the box. “Let me get my friend, who does documents for the society, to make copies, and then we can compare them to the house.”
He loved thatwething. “Sure. We’ll make it a get-together with Nathan and maybe your hubs? We could have supper here.”
“Oh, that sounds wonderful.” Hank beamed at him. “I really appreciate this.”
“Hey, like I said, I want people to see this. I can visit it any time.” He loved old things, but at the same time, this might give the town some interesting tidbits.
“Well, I love that for Secret Springs. So, how’s it going with Nathan?”
The change of subject made him blink hard. “Uh. Good. We’re good.”
“Excellent. We’re all very fond of him, you know.”
“Cool.” He tilted his head. “Are you warning me off?”
“No. No, of course not. I just want him happy.”
Zion got the feeling Hank could be fierce when he defended his friends.
“I do too, Hank.” And Zion realized it was absolutely the truth.
And he wanted Nathan to be happy with him.
Chapter
Nine
“Hey, Nathan! Are you off work today?” Tim, the local librarian, met him out on the town square. “I was heading to meet some friends for lunch. Would you like to come?”
“Um.”
“I know Zion is out of town at some kind of snowboard signing or something.”
“He is.” His cheeks heated hard. He still wasn’t used to such a small town and how everyone not only knew all, but talked about it, too.
“And Saul will be there.”
“Oh, cool. I feel like I haven’t seen him in an age. I would love to go.” Thanks to Zion feeding him so often, he had a little cash for this kind of thing. It was a tiny bit embarrassing, or it would be if Zion made a thing of it.
He didn’t.
“Yay! Come on. I’ll drive. We’re headed to the hotel. We have the back room reserved. It’s just easier that way. The kids can play.”
“But you don’t have yours with you.” Tim had clearly been at work.
“Not today. My folks will pick them up after school. But a lot of the others will be coming.”
Nathan put a hand on his belly. “Nice.” It would be good to spend time with kids. Just to kind of get the feel for it. His biggest experience there were Saul’s kids, who were doll babies, and then waiting tables.
“So, how’s it going? I feel like I see you for five seconds at the deli counter.”
“I’ve been seeing so much of Zion I haven’t been into the library as often.”
“Oh, don’t worry about it. I don’t mind. I know you’ve been busy. New relationship energy and all that.”
