The Beekeeper's Bullet
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A few seconds pass before he replies. “Is that what you want?”
“For a while.”
“And when a while is over?”
Ellenor has narrowed it down to the yeast rolls and the rye with warm butter. “I think I’d like to see my bees again.”
“I’m sure there are beekeepers in Switzerland.”
“That one,” she says, pointing to the loaf of rye.
On the other side of the counter, the baker nods and fetches a square of newsprint and a length of twine.
She watches the man work. “Will we ever know if the French made it through?”
“I’m sure they did. I never met a Frenchman who wasn’t as tenacious as a terrier.”
“A nucleus won’t be cheap, you know.”
“Nucleus?”
“That’s what you call the queen and a small amount of bees you buy from a beekeeper in order to raise your own colony. And we’ll need at least two of them to get started, just to be sure. We’ll have to hurry, because the hives need time to build up their honey stores before winter.”
“What do you say we worry about getting a roof over our heads first, and then we’ll look into acquiring a few bees?”
Ellenor accepts the wrapped bread and looks up at Alec. “I warn you that my domestic skills are unrefined.”
“How’s your sharpshooting?”
She smiles and puts one arm around his neck. “Better than average.”
Alec buries his hands in her hair, pulls her onto her toes, and kisses her.
The baker, embarrassed, hurries back to his broom.
A word about the author…
Lance Hawvermale published his first books under the pseudonym of Erin O’Rourke. Since then, his poetry and fiction have garnered numerous awards.
Hawvermale is an alumnus of AmeriCorps. He has worked as a college professor, an editor, and a youth counselor. He lives in Texas with his family and their honey bees.
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