Page 106 of My Three Hometown Alphas

They’re all being sneaky with their pronoun usage, so I don’t even know if this mystery candidate is male or female.

Miles holds the phone out in front of his face, obviously video calling someone.

“Hey,” a familiar female voice says from his phone. “Are you with her?”

Miles nods, then turns the phone to face me.

Hadley’s smiling face comes into view. “Hey, girl. Congrats on graduating.”

“Thank you,” I say, smiling back at her. I tilt my head to the side. “So, you want to be mayor?”

An almost shy smile crosses her face. “Yeah, I do. It wasn’t anything I ever saw for myself, but I really think I could help thistown. I still want to run my photography studio, but I want this, too.”

I hear the sincerity in every word she says. She loves Aspen Springs even more than I do. She’s lived there her whole life.

“So… do you think you can help me beat him?”

A confident smile tilts up the corners of my mouth. “I think we’d make a good team.”

“The best team,” Lyla exclaims.

“Exactly,” Hadley says excitedly. Her face grows a little more serious. “You’re game? You want to do this?”

I take a minute to really think about it. Do I want to run a campaign for someone to beat the current mayor?Yes. Do I want to build a campaign for Hadley?Also, yes.Do I want to stay in Aspen Springs?Hell yes!

All answers are pointing in the same direction.

“Yes,” I say with a nod.

“Then the job’s yours. We’ll talk more when you get home.”

Home.

That really is what Aspen Springs has become this summer. It’s my home. There are so many little things that have made it feel this way, but mainly because of these four people who have become my family.

“Sounds good. We’ll talk soon,” I tell her. Everyone says their goodbyes before Miles hangs up.

“So, you’re going to stay?” Lyla asks. Her voice is more tentative than it normally is.

“If you guys will have me,” I say.

Owen’s arms tighten around my waist. “We aren’t letting you get away this time. You’re ours.”

A warm fuzzy feeling builds in my heart, spreading through my whole body.

Love.This is exactly what love is supposed to feel like.

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO

Avery

The breeze whipsthrough the aspen trees surrounding the trail. A shower of yellow and orange leaves rains down around me.

A slight chill has settled into the air as fall officially moved into the high country a few weeks ago. I know it’s a sign that winter is on the horizon, but I love it.

I’ve never seen anything in nature as beautiful as the mountain terrain covered in a sea of yellows, oranges, and reds. It almost seems too perfect to be real.

Despite Miles’s adamant attempts to get me to like running, I still don’t love it. I will do it from time to time to be with him, not because of the running.