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Название книги: The Long Game
Автор(ы): J. Fynn
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
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CHAPTER ONE


JIMMY BOY LEANED on the counter and flashed a sweet smile at the cute blonde working the register.
“I’m sure glad y’all were open this early ‘cause our pa wanted to have the new deck done this weekend.”
I kept my head bowed, eyes trained on the scuffed tennis shoes I’d pulled on in a rush to make it to the truck before we hightailed it to Slidell.
My brother and I hadn’t made the ten-minute drive to the hardware store to get parts for a new deck, and we certainly weren’t building one with our da. But, for some reason, that’s what Jimmy Boy’d come up with—as if visiting a hardware store for a box of screws was so unusual it required some kind of grand explanation.
Lying for lying’s sake never made me uncomfortable. If there was one thing I knew about being a Traveler, it’s that Travelers didn’t truck with being honest with country people, even when being dishonest wasn’t strictly necessary. Besides, it was difficult switching between talking fro