His Small-Town Sweetheart. Amanda Berry
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the hogs in for you. Hose her down and send her home if you don’t mind, Sam.”
Sam watched the emotions run through Nicole’s eyes. Pain, embarrassment, resignation.
“Yeah, I’ll make sure she gets home. Thanks, John,” Sam said.
Before the twins were born, Nicole had been John’s little helper. After the boys, though, no matter how much she acted like one, her father still preferred to spend his time with them. She could never find her way back into the favorite slot. These were just a few of the secrets shared between best friends in the tree house they’d built.
He couldn’t imagine the pain of having her folks split their family in half. What must that have felt like for her? Had she felt like the last one to get picked? If her mother hadn’t moved so far away, would Sam and Nicole have been split up?
“You ready to get hosed down?” he asked as the truck doors slammed behind them.
She lifted her eyebrow at him. “You aren’t serious.”
“How else are you going to get all the pig smell off you?” Sam flicked a chunk of mud from her shoulder. “I can’t exactly let you into the house looking like that.”
Her smile was downright wicked when she stepped close to him. “If I’m going to get hosed down, then you are, too.”
She put a handful of mud from her leg on the front of his shirt and smiled up at him. “Just so you know, if you hadn’t grown so big, I’d have just tackled you in the mud.”
The images she conjured in his mind were enough to make him welcome the cold hose water. The truck engine vanished into the distance, leaving him and Nicole alone. If she wanted to play with mud, he decided two could play at this game.
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