Page 313 of Mountain Grump
Sterling glares at Ethan. “Thanks for all the free sugar.Definitelyno side effects.”
His wife, Courtney, is a few steps behind. She’s beaming at us. “Ignore him. He’s just mad he dropped his apple turnover.”
I wave at Ursa. The Blacks are here quite a bit, and Fisher usually brings Ursa with him when he comes to check on the fish in the pond. The kid waves back at me. Then she bites Sterling’s shirt.
I snicker. She’s definitely a handful. But if my suspicions are correct, I think she’ll be a sweet and protective big sister.
I take another sip of my drink, sighing over the steam. Everyone here has been so welcoming that I feel like I’ve been here for years.
I smile against my cup.
This really is my happy place.
The camp. Lonely. Colorado.
Anywhere with Ethan.
“And then there’s this idiot,” Ethan grumbles, then crouches down beside me.
“What’re you…”
Ethan stands. And hurls a snowball.
“Ethan!”
Twenty feet away, the sphere thuds against the center of a man’s back, causing him to shift forward a step.
Rocky slowly turns around, with something that looks like a brownie raised halfway to his mouth.
He glares at Ethan.
Ethan points at some random guy eating a pretzel.
A welcoming group of people, where all the men pretend like they hate each other.
Rocky’s wife, Kendra, is in a periwinkle pompom hat that matches Rocky’s fleece-lined flannel. And every time I see them, I blush. Because it still reminds me of the first time I gave Ethan a big blow job.
Rocky hands his brownie to Kendra, then reaches for a snow-covered bush.
Ethan starts to back away from me. “I’ll… be right back. Gonna get us some more food.”
“Chicken.”
“That’s an insult to Quackers.”
I shake my head as he slips behind the doughnut truck, out of snowball range.
A different man appears on my other side. And I bump my shoulder against his. “Enjoying yourself?”
Stephen smiles down at me, emotion bright in his eyes. “This… He would’ve loved this.”
Epilogue 2
Ethan Grant, Good Boy
Tilda hums somethingas she steps into the cabin, her yellow dress disappearing into the shadows.
I smile as I rinse my hands under the cool well water.
