Page 15 of Love Is Brewing

“I’m right there with you,” she said.

“Well,” Ellen said. “Unless you like to drink beer, there isn’t much to do around here either.”

She didn’t know what that comment was about and was too busy to ask or volunteer that her brother was a brewmaster for the biggest brewery in North Carolina.

It’d be a sin to not like or at least drink beer.

She liked it, and drank it, but not a ton.

“I don’t have a lot of free time at this point anyway,” she said and walked back to her office.

She had to stop saying that too or she was going to end up single for another ten years.

Except, she had to be successful first, then she could focus on a man or a relationship.

If she could figure out what that even meant to her.

5

ONLY GOING TO GET BETTER

“When are Mason and Ben showing up?” Kyle asked him when he was sitting in his office.

Elias had to run out this morning to sign for mail that was sent to his house.

No one ever sent anything to his house to be signed and he thought it was important.

Then he finds out it’s just some stupid sales pitch. Since when did that shit come certified mail to be signed for?!

Maybe because it was an investment firm, they didn’t care so much if they wasted the money or time on it.

But he sure the hell cared that he wasted time out of his day that he didn’t have.

Not that he was regretting it since he was able to run into Phoebe again.

She was a treat on the eyes in brighter light for sure, without all the misty snow blowing around.

The weather was nicer than it had been days ago.

This time her hair wasn’t flying around her head, but rather a light brown that hung past her shoulders in some layers.

There wasn’t a lot of makeup on her face.

Her brown eyes were light enough to remind him of whiskey, and he knew he could get lost in their depths.

She was someone that was hard to read, but he was positive he caught a sign of embarrassment and attraction in them.

Maybe he was trying for that with the wink.

He had her card. He could reach out to her if he wanted.

He had no need to do it for a professional reason. He had all the lawyers he needed in his life.

Braylon and his team. The only reason he’d need one locally would be if he got a ticket he wanted to take care of. It’d happened a time or two, but around here, they knew him and let that crap go if he got pulled over.

He didn’t make a habit of breaking the law, but maybe he’d been caught speeding a time or two when he wasn’t paying attention because he had other things on his mind.

He wasn’t sure if he got let go now because of who his brother was, or the fact that he owned Fifth Kid Brewing. Not only was his beer growing in popularity, but he also employed close to two hundred people in town, and his customers always brought business to the area too.

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