A Summer Remade by Deese Nicole

Author:Deese, Nicole [Deese, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, Fiction
Publisher: Nicole Deese
Published: 2015-11-04T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

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I watch Drew pull in, park, and leap up my porch steps two at a time. All the while, I lounge quietly on the Adirondack chair I rescued from the cobwebs an hour ago.

He doesn’t see me as he raises his fist to knock on the door.

I clear my throat. “Morning.” I’m the one to surprise him for a change.

Drew hops back a step and glances left, his eyes wide. His gaze free falls from the top of my head to the tip of my Converse-covered toes. “H-hi.”

It’s the stutter that gives him away. Drew likes what he sees. And I like that Drew likes what he sees.

The extra time spent on my hair and makeup this morning after my “little moment” on the dock was apparently time well spent.

I open my mouth to save us both the awkwardness of recognizing that I no longer resemble some kind of island-hobo when he speaks.

“You look really pretty.”

Really pretty. The sweet and simple words corkscrew into my heart.

Too many people think boldness is the same as bluntness. But I disagree. Drew’s boldness doesn’t stem from the need to say everything that’s on his mind. No, he chooses his words carefully and lives by the honesty-is-always-the-best-policy rule. Which makes a compliment from him a thousand times more amazing.

His gaze steadies on mine.

I could take flight with the number of winged creatures filling my abdomen.

“Thank you.” A swirl of heat rises in my chest, then swims across my shoulders and down into my back and arms. I uncross my legs, plant them flat on the porch, and stand. “Did you want to come in?”

“Uh…not exactly.” Drew tugs on the back of his neck. “I was hoping you might be free today.”

“Do you mean free as in not ripping up soggy carpet, deep cleaning freezers, or rearranging old cabin furniture? That kind of free?”

Drew’s light laughter fills the space between us, my heart skipping to a new beat. “Free as in, would you like to come with me into town for the day and—”

“Yes!” I need an adventure—something to take my mind off of…well, everything. An adventure with Drew is a thousand times more exciting than sitting here alone.

“You didn’t let me finish. What if I was about to invite you to go garden supply shopping?”

“Then I’d tell you I’ll pick out the very best hoe you’ve ever laid eyes on.”

A quirk in his eyebrow followed by a twitch in his bottom lip takes my innocent comment plummeting to a whole new level of Joslyn’s Foot-In-Mouth Disorder.

He shakes his head. “Good to know. But I don’t want to take you to the Garden Supply Center.”

Heat floods my cheeks like a radiator set to high. “So where, then?”

“I need help building a float for the Fourth of July parade.”

A buzz of energy zaps through my veins. “Seriously?”

Drew’s confident expression wavers. “Yeah?”

I bounce and clap my hands like a three-year-old at a birthday party. “I’ve always wanted to help with a float!”

Drew holds out his hand to me and winks.

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