6
KNOX
One week after I met Haley, I walked into O’Kelley’s for guys’ night. I’d skipped the week before when she showed up at Al’s Hardware and I decided to spend the night with a curvy, sexy stranger instead of a bunch of guys.
But I was going to pay for it. No doubt they would talk, especially when they found out we’d had a second date already. They were almost as bad as Tony, d**k, and Wayne. Gossips, all of them.
“Hey,” I said, taking a seat next to Colin. I’d gotten to know Colin over the last few years since he’d taken over his grandmother’s maple farm. He was smart and knew his way around a toolbox, and he was a regular customer.
“Hey. Glad you made it,” Colin said without any hint of teasing. Of all the guys, he was the one I expected to let me off the hook. He was a good man
