A Heart Reclaimed by Elizabeth Maddrey

Author:Elizabeth Maddrey [Maddrey, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JoNaTiMa Books
Published: 2018-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

Stomach churning, Anna dialed Duncan’s cell and waited while it rang.

“Hey. This is a nice surprise.”

“Do you have a minute? I know you’re at work.”

“I always have a minute for you. What’s up?”

“I talked to Claire on Friday and she sent me some information. I spent the weekend putting together...I guess you’d call it a business plan. I wondered if you’d like to see it.” She held her breath, waiting for his answer.

“Definitely. Can you email it to my personal account?”

“Done.” Anna clicked send on the email she’d already composed and pressed a hand to her stomach. That hadn’t been hard. Why had it seemed like it was going to? “If you have ideas or thoughts or questions or...whatever, just put them in and send it back. Okay?”

“Sounds good. Oops. I have to run. Love you.”

The phone clicked. Anna stared, wide-eyed, at her phone. Love you? Her heart hammered in her chest. Was that a mistake or did he mean it? She...was in love with him. But she hadn’t expected that he would feel the same so quickly. Maybe his talk about having a crush on her in college hadn’t been exaggerated.

“Are you done with the computer? There’s a man at the desk with gardening questions.” Roberta, the older of the two other reference librarians, nodded toward a man waiting at the front of the desk.

“Sure.” Anna logged out of the computer and pushed thoughts of loving Duncan out of her mind. Or tried to. She missed him. It was a quiet ache in her heart every day. Talking on the phone wasn’t quite the same thing. And that wasn’t productive right now, either. She fixed a smile on her face and approached the waiting man. “Hi, I’m Anna. I’m told you need some help with garden-related information?”

“Sure do. I’m Wade. My wife’s got it in her head that she’d like a sort of mini-version of a formal English garden in the backyard now that the kids are grown. I’m not sure what that even means, to be honest, so I figured the best place to find out something about a historic garden would be here.”

That wasn’t completely accurate, but Anna could work with it. Did they not have the Internet though? The man was older—maybe her parents’ age—but still young enough to have learned to use e-mail and a web browser. “I’m sure I can help you. Did you have any general ideas beyond ‘English garden’ that you wanted to go off of?”

He shrugged, his gaze steadily holding hers. “Not really. She saw a program on TV about Bronze Age mansions here in the U.S. and got the idea from it.”

Bronze Age? Her history was rusty, but hadn’t that been before the Roman Empire? And in Mesopotamia? English gardens were definitely not a thing yet. She chewed her lip. “Could she have meant Gilded Age? The early nineteen hundreds here in the U.S.?”

“That’s it. That’s the one. Knew bronze sounded wrong but couldn’t think of anything better.” He grinned. “I can see why you work here.

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