“All vistas and bonfires, snowmobiles and fun. They showed the France’s house, like that’s typical of where people live around here.”
Mrs. France owned the Bear and Bar Café, and the France family had the fanciest house in town.
“They dressed up a section of the Bear and Bar for a photoshoot.” Brodie was clearly on a roll, and Cobra settled back to sip his beer and listen. “Tablecloths and silverware and flowers. It’s false advertising, I tell you. And Mia—they used Silas and Mia’s happily-ever-after story, set him all combed and clean shaven in his flight suit in the sunshine in front of a freshly washed bush plane, Mia holding his hand all uber citified, like anyone from LA would naturally fit in up here. Do they show the mud? No. Do they show the mosquitoes? No. Mia barely escaped a bear attack. Do they mention that? No.”
Cobra was sympathetic but also entertained by how worked up Brodie was getting over the whole crazy idea. He quickly raised his beer to hide his grin.
Brodie caught the expression anyway and scowled. “This isn’t a joke.”
“I know. But you’re headed off the deep end there.”
Brodie jabbed his thumb against his chest. “I’m the rare voice of reason.”
Cobra polished off the beer then dropped his empty into the recycle bin. “Here’s the thing about these women, Brodie. They’re small. They’re slow. They’ll probably wear high heels. I’m liking our chances of a clean escape.”
Brodie cracked a smile then too.
Cobra clapped him on the shoulder. “Bob and weave, Brodie. Bob and weave. We’ll make it through the weekend.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Barbara Dunlop has published over fifty novels with Harlequin Books and eight novels with Tule Publishing. Her stories have ranged from light hearted comedies to family sagas. Barbara is a four time finalist for the RWA RITA award, and her Tule novel His Jingle Bell Princess has been optioned by Motion Picture Corporation of America for a Hallmark movie. Barbara's Tule novels have ranked as high as #1 on Amazon.com.
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