![]() “Yes, I know you’re not an aspen,” she says. My eldest brother is the chief arborist of the Cumberland National Forest. “There’s one in Colorado named Pando that’s the world’s heaviest living organism. “Aspen trees are actually all shoots of one massive root system,” I explain. “You do know my brothers are separate entities from me, right? We’re not all branches of the same massive organism, like an aspen stand or something.” I take a deep breath, drink some more coffee. “How many more of these demands do you have?” I ask. ![]() We co-own Loveless Brewing I do the beer parts, he does the business parts. She’s looking at me with those eyes, tapping her fingers on the side of her coffee cup. “I just… gave him advice when Violet was pissed at him.” “Didn’t you talk him into infiltrating his own place of work to get a security video last year?” she asks, tilting her head to one side. “You know I have zero say in what Eli does.” “Meatballs upon request from your brother Eli.” ![]() “All right,” she says, shrugging, and flips over a page. ![]() ![]() She presses her lips together, thinking, and I don’t notice the way it gives her a slight, soft, supple pout, nor do I think again about the fact that we’re going to have to kiss. This pretty much just formalizes the arrangement. In reality, I don’t remember the last time she paid for a beer from my brewery. I narrow my eyes, like I’m thinking about negotiating. “Third, free beer for life from Loveless Brewing.”Ĭharlie just nods very seriously. ![]()
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