Chapter 2
Billy pushed his foot down on the gas pedal as he sped away from the center of Echo Ridge. He would rather have walked through a hornet’s nest than discover that he would be working next to Laney Richins. High school was eight years in his past, but when he’d walked into Paisley’s Petals and nearly tripped over his high school sweetheart, his heart had jumped back in time. For a second, when he’d looked into her chocolate-brown eyes, he’d almost forgotten how Laney had broken his heart, and every promise she’d made. He growled and gripped the steering wheel. They were teenagers back then, he knew that. Promises between two kids didn’t mean anything, but time hadn’t softened the blow that Laney had dealt him when she’d scorned her hometown, him, and his dreams.
It was ridiculous
