A Fine Year for Love by Catherine Lanigan

Author:Catherine Lanigan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

GABE SAT AT the computer in the large walnut-paneled study that led to the back veranda. He was going over a new canning contract. They were about to have a bumper crop of Italian green beans they’d never grown before—what Gabe had thought would be an experimental year was turning out to be a productive one. The weather had been on their side, and because they’d received the right amount of rain on the exact days they’d needed it, his little crop was going to make them an extra ten thousand dollars. It wasn’t much for a farm that pulled in hundreds of thousands of dollars a season, but Gabe believed that each time he could profit from a fallow piece of land, he was ahead of the game.

He pushed back in his chair and gazed out at the pool area, where his mother was spreading a colorful linen cloth on a table. She’d just come back from the hairdresser, who had trimmed her hair neatly to shoulder length and restored her dark brown color. There were times when Gabe looked at his mother and marveled at how little she had aged since he was a child. She had worked just as hard as Gabe’s father all her life, yet she looked twenty years younger than she was. Gabe attributed this to her outlook on life: she believed that no matter what, every moment of every day was precious. She lived in the moment and never took anything or anyone for granted.

For the first time in his life, Gabe felt he’d found that same attitude in another person.

Liz.

Gabe stood, shoved his hands in his pockets and walked away from the window. Then he walked back. He sat down again, his mind filled with visions of Liz. The feel of her lips against his. The icy chill she’d given him when she’d turned down his offer.

He’d made some miscalculations in his life, but that kiss had to go down in his personal history as the worst.

And if that weren’t bad enough, he’d blurted out that he would like to buy her land. He hadn’t known the Crenshaws owned anything more than the fifty or so acres they had planted and worked. Once he’d realized that Liz and he were practically writing the same wine journal, he jumped at the idea of aligning forces.

It seemed natural to him.

But Liz had swung the opposite way and looked at him as if he were a terrorist, not a potential business partner.

He swiped his face with his hand then rubbed the back of his neck. “Well, you’ve gone and done it this time,” he chided himself. “What were you thinking?”

Liz the woman and Liz the business partner were going to be not only frustrating to deal with but impossible to predict. At this point, he wasn’t sure if she’d ever talk to him again, after the glare she’d thrown him when she’d driven away last night.

And despite all his strategizing about how

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