Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sarah T. Dubb
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Celeste Johanssen had embarked on some rather outlandish activities in the two
years since her divorce. She’d done skydiving, vermicomposting, and even a week
of sleeping on her back porch every night—but they were nothing compared to
her activity on this sunny Saturday morning.
She scanned the park for her date.
Her fake date.
He’d been described to her as “a quiet, sweet guy with a beard, straight out of
an L.L.Bean catalog” who was in desperate need of help that morning. And if
there was anything Celeste loved more than a new adventure, it was helping.
She’d even arrived a couple of minutes early—a miracle for her, especially
considering she’d stopped for pastries and caffeine.
In their brief texts, full of proper punctuation and capitalization, John had
told her he’d be waiting in a gazebo on the southeast side of the popular park,
which tracked with the bearded mystery man sitting there now.
“Whoa.” She stopped short, catching the pastry box with the bottom of her
cup before it tipped all the way off her arm and onto the ground.
“He’s the kind of guy who will stop traffic to help a tortoise cross the road,
then go home and build you a table,” his friend had said of John. The
description had seemed absurd at the time, but she saw it now. Thick arms
displayed evidence of manual work, and his auburn beard, glinting cinnamon
and sugar in the morning sun, gave him a woodsman vibe. His skin had the soft
tan of someone who spent a lot of time outside but always wore sunscreen.
Large hands cradled a small, worn book tenderly, fingers rubbing at the corner of
a page before turning it slowly. The reading glasses parked on the end of his nose
didn’t hurt the tableau, either. John seemed a man balanced precisely on the
edge between hard and soft.
Celeste began a careful walk across the crunching grass, remembering the
most important rule of improv, simple words she’d scrawled onto a sticky note
to join the others on her bathroom mirror.
Say yes.
People milled around the park, looking curiously up into the trees, as Celeste
pondered which was the ex she was coming to deflect. Eight a.m. did seem an
odd time for a date, but she’d been out of the dating pool for decades, so what
did she know? When there was a new adventure to be had, Celeste rarely asked
for details.
John’s attention was still on his book as she stepped into the shade of the
gazebo, goose bumps appearing along her arms, left bare by her cotton tank
dress. In her rush, she hadn’t grabbed a jacket, but soon it wouldn’t matter.
April in Tucson meant chilly mornings and warm, perfect afternoons.
Celeste allowed herself one more long perusal of John, studying her subject
in order to throw herself properly into the scene. The glasses and beard
combined to give him a real librarian-in-the-wild vibe. If there was a calendar
somewhere of ruggedly nerdy men reading, John could be any month of the
year. Interesting that this guy, cords of muscle visible on his forearms where his
sleeves were pushed up, needed protection from his ex.
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