Total pages in book: 22
Estimated words: 20602 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 103(@200wpm)___ 82(@250wpm)___ 69(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 20602 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 103(@200wpm)___ 82(@250wpm)___ 69(@300wpm)
“Who’s the serious looking gent?” I asked, jerking my head in the direction of the well-dressed guy who clearly looked out of place in the pub. He was wearing a suit that looked expensive.
Benny shrugged. “He’s in from Dublin. For business, he said.”
“Benny!” Kelley shouted. “Call!”
“I’ll be right back,” he said before heading over to the phone. When his eyes went wide, I nearly groaned. What could it be now? He spoke into the receiver for a few more minutes while I finished my drink.
I couldn’t help but notice that the guy in the suit was looking around the bar. He was definitely checking it out. What if he was a developer who’d caught wind that Benny might have to shut the pub down? He could be looking to build some apartment building or something. That would really suck.
“You’re not going to believe who just called,” Benny said as he joined me again.
“You’d be surprised,” I said and Benny gave me a funny look. “Who was it?”
“A movie director. He’s looking for an authentic pub to film a few scenes in. They’re filming down the road, and he asked some locals if there was a pub nearby. They mentioned O’Brien’s and now he wants to stop by and check out the place. If they end up using it, he’ll pay us a large amount to rent the pub out for a week, maybe two!”
“Benny, that’s amazing,” I said as I watched a little bit of the stress lift away from his face.
“It won’t get me completely out of debt, but it’ll help pay off a lot of it.”
“When’s he stopping by?”
Benny looked over at the clock on the wall. “Thirty minutes.”
He pronounced it as tirty, and it took me a second to figure out he meant thirty. Sometimes it was still jarring to hear how the Irish didn’t pronounce the TH sound.
“If they rent the pub out, will you have to turn away customers?”
“He said he didn’t think we would as they’d do a lot of the filming at night. They might shoot a few scenes during the day and if there are customers here, then it’ll be better for the shot. They won’t have to worry about extras, as long as everyone is willing to sign a waiver.”
“I hope it all works out for you.”
On my right, I heard a male voice call out, “Thank ya for the pint!” But it sounded more like, tank ya.
Benny held up his hand to the man in the suit and called back, “Any time, lad!”
When Benny turned to face me again, I could see the happiness on his face. “Things might finally be changing for me, Lucas. And for the good!”
Hollie stared at me with a shocked expression on her face. “A movie director?”
I laughed. “Yes. And the place was packed for lunch today. Apparently, word’s getting out about Benny’s mother’s cooking.”
Hollie sighed. “She’s the best cook. Her potato soup is the best I’ve ever had. She makes everything taste like heaven. I swear she deconstructed my apple pie and made it her own way. It was the best apple pie I’ve ever had!”
Laughing once again, I pushed my hand through my hair. “I wonder if we should just leave the spell alone. I mean, does it have a time limit?”
Grinning, Hollie said, “I didn’t put one in the spell, so I’m not sure. I don’t think so. Maybe the spell interprets good fortune and once it feels like Benny has hit it, it stops.”
I stared at her. “You don’t really think it works that way, do you?”
She shook her head. “No, but it’s wishful thinking. I really don’t want to mess things up for Benny. So what if he gets a bit of sex here and there and request for pictures of his feet? What’s the harm in it?”
I was pretty sure my mouth fell into my lap. “What if Benny and Casey get together and women keep throwing themselves at Benny? I mean, Casey wanted to share him once, but it doesn’t mean she’d want to do it again.”
Hollie gasped. “So he did have the threesome!”
“He did, though it sounds like it was a one and done kind of thing.”
Her brows rose. “Casey wants a relationship with Benny?”
I shrugged. “Sounds like it.”
Folding her arms over her chest, Hollie asked, “Then why ask to have a threesome with your friend and the guy you’re interested in?”
“According to Benny, it was a fantasy of hers.”
“Whatever floats your boat, I guess. The good news is that this movie thing sounds like it might help Benny out.”
“He said it would pay some of his bills, but it doesn’t sound like it will bail him all the way out.”
Sighing, Hollie sat down on the sofa. “I wish we could do more.”
“We…already did enough. Let’s see how things turn out. In the meantime, you keep your spells to yourself.”