The front door opened again, and both he and Adam looked that way to see Joey entering. “Boston, you found it,” she said.
“I found it, all right.” He raised his eyebrows at his cousin. “You didn’t tell him we were coming?”
She grinned with all the radiance of the sun. “I wanted it to be a surprise.”
“I’m pretty sure he was surprised,” Boston said, and he looked between Adam and Joey, trying to put the pieces of them together. She had said nothing about him at cousin movie night only a few days ago. But they definitely had a vibe going on.
“Howdy, ma’am,” Adam said.
And Boston narrowed his eyes. “Why are you coordinating his move, anyway?”
“Why, indeed,” Adam asked, and then he zeroed in on Boston again. “You said you had something you wanted to talk to me about.”
“Oh, sure.” Sudden nerves ran through Boston. He wasn’t sure why. He’d worked with Adam on the summer concert series, and he knew him quite well. “I’m applying for a bunch of jobs around town,” he said. “Mostly event centers, like wedding venues and high-end lodges, where they do parties and conferences and have concierges—stuff like that. I kind of feel like it goes along with some of the coordination and details that I learned during the concert series, and I was hoping that I could put you down as a reference.”
Adam, in his business-like way, simply nodded. “Yes, of course. That would be fine.”
Boston nodded too, hoping he wouldn’t have to be as serious as Adam to work at a cowboy lodge in the Teton Mountains. At the same time, he knew plenty of rich people came to Wyoming to escape the bigger cities and the pressures of their busy lives, and they probably did want a concierge wearing a suit and tie, who could give them all the luxuries of country living.
“I’m just looking right now,” Boston said. “I haven’t seen anything come up yet, but I just wanted to make sure it was okay.”
“Yep, it’s okay,” Adam said, his eyes glued to Joey as she moved into his kitchen and opened his fridge. That felt like such a personal thing to do, and Boston volleyed his gazebetween her and him, finally stepping closer to Adam. “What’s going on with you two?”
“Nothing,” Adam said quickly. “What makes you think there’s something going on with us?”
Boston grinned at him. “Your high-pitched question to my question makes me think there’s something going on,” he said. “Is there?”
Tension radiated off Adam while Joey bent to slide a tray into his oven, and he was saved by the doorbell ringing. Instead of yelling, “Come in,” again, he glared at Boston and walked away.
Cole and Rosie had arrived with Eric, and Adam welcomed them to his house. When they’d all arrived back in the great room, Joey looked up from her phone. “Harry says he’s five minutes away with the truck. You have everything packed?”
Adam folded his arms. “Do you think I would not be ready for a nine a.m. moving time?”
Joey tipped her head back and trilled out a laugh unlike anything Boston had ever heard before. Oh, this was flirting at its finest, and though Boston hadn’t had a girlfriend since high school, he suddenly knew exactly what kind of vibe was going on between Adam and Joey.
Theylikedeach other.
“Can I have one of these kolaches?” Rosie asked, and Boston whipped his attention to a tray that now sat on Adam’s kitchen counter that had not been there before.
“Where did those come from?” he asked.
“I just heated them up,” Joey said. “You didn’t seriously think I’d ask you to come move someone without feeding you, did you?”
Rosie picked one up and handed it to Boston. “Ooh, they’re just a little bit warm.”
“They won’t be all the way hot,” Joey said. “I only put them in the oven for five minutes.”
Kolaches went around, and then Harry came in through the garage entrance. “Truck’s here and the wind’s picking up, so let’s get this done.”
Adam moved to stand next to Harry, and he raised both hands to get everyone’s attention. “Thank you all so much for coming. I don’t actually own any of the furniture here, so we don’t need to take any couches, tables and chairs, or the bed. I have boxes and one trunk that belonged to my grandfather in the bedroom. I marked it.”
Joey moved to his side and added, “We’ll get everything loaded up here, and then we’ll drive to Dog Valley and unload there.” She looked up to Adam, her expression so…open and full of something Boston could only identify as adoration.
“You’ve got furniture we need to move and put together, right, baby?” she asked.
“Baby?” Rosie screeched, and all activity, conversation, and eating of kolaches came to a sudden halt. Adam’s face reddened, but Joey simply ducked her head, looking sheepish.
Harry started to laugh, and Boston knew why. Hegrinned, because he liked Adam a lot, and maybe if he started dating Joey, she would finally realize how amazing she was. Boston knew she suffered with self-esteem issues—because he did too, and they talked about it.
