Chapter 6
It took a week, after Erik had returned to Middleton, for him to find a place of his own. In the interim, he remained with Bill’s parents and helped out at the B&B. He wouldn’t have been able to move as soon as he did if a young woman staying at one of the boarding houses hadn’t decided she wasn’t—as Mrs. Quinn, the landlady, said the woman had told her—“Cut out for trudging through snow and cold, as much as I like this town.”
“I have no problem at all with that,” Erik said when he told Bill. “I live for snow.”
Bill laughed. “Uh-huh. In that case you’ve come to the right place.” He was proven right when, the day Erik moved into the boarding house, another storm swept through the area.
After Erik settled in, he faced the task of finding a job.
“What do you know, besides barte
