Page 32 of Wolfish
“I’m sure we’ll figure it out.”
When they arrived home, they got ready for bed. Then they climbed onto the soft mattress. They soon snuggled together. This felt so right.
He kissed her on the mouth, and she kissed him right back, her lips lingering against his. He made her feel sexy, and she was ready to do more than just hug and kiss soon.
Then they cuddled and finally fell asleep, despite worrying about the possibility of murderers on the loose in Silver Town. When she woke, she glanced at the time and realized she needed to get to the shop and straighten it up before she opened this morning. “I have to get ready to open the shop.”
She didn’t expect to have much business today, but she still needed to be prepared in case anyone dropped by. Though she really would have liked to have snuggled with Daniel longer.
“I’ll take you over there. I’ll be staying with you for the day, pick up some breakfast for us, and help you get your shop back in shape.”
“Thanks. I don’t want to look at the mess it is.”
“We’ll straighten it out. Before long, it will look as good as new,” Daniel said.
“Yeah, but it will be half empty.”
“You’ll fill it up again.”
She loved how positive he always was.
Then they drove over to the shop, and when they arrived, she was right. The place was a disaster. She began cleaning up the trash while he moved merchandise around to fill in the gaps. She took a break to buy some more merchandise while he ordered breakfast for them. He was so cute, helping her out, buying them breakfast. He was the perfect boyfriend.
Silva brought over cups of tea and scones. “I figured you wouldn’t want to leave Selena alone so I brought the food and drink over.”
“Thanks, Silva,” Daniel said.
“Oh, my, your shop is empty, Selena—which is a good thing.” Silva glanced around at the half-empty store.
“Yeah, I’ve been ordering some more merchandise, though I don’t want to order too much and then not sell it before I start decorating for Christmas,” Selena said.
“All the businesses have posted about the new shop in town so you should be able to get some more customers.”
“Oh, that’s wonderful.” Selena looked through her sales records to find which items had been most popular, then ordered more of those.
“You did a great job on ordering items that no one else had,” Silva said. “Well, I’m going back to my shop. Enjoy.”
“Thanks, Silva. Breakfast smells great,” Selena said.
Then Silva left, and Selena and Daniel began eating the scones and drinking the tea.
“This is good,” Daniel said.
“It sure is. It’s wonderful being able to have breakfast from next door if I’m running late.”
“Yeah, because it’s so good.”
“For sure.”
Once they had eaten breakfast, they got back to straightening her shop up. It looked so barren compared to what it had been when it was stocked to the brim for the grand opening. But that was good anyway, that she’d had so much merchandise to choose from.
“It looks great, as long as nobody buys the other half of your store out.”
She laughed. “Then I can start all over again, but with all new merchandise.”
“That’s the way to keep them coming back.” Daniel pulled her into a warm embrace. “Don’t worry about keeping your store going. You don’t have anything to be concerned about.”
But she did worry. What if the big grand opening was it?
