Almost Home: A Sweet Small Town Second Chance Romance (Back to Silver Ridge Book 4) by Claire Cain

Author:Claire Cain [Cain, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781954005303
Publisher: Claire Cain
Published: 2022-09-13T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Sarah

If Wilder sent me any more scalding looks tonight, I’d end up combusting and burning to ash right here in this shiny little booth.

“Okay, so can we talk about something? Madeline Reynolds is coming to stay in Silverton for like a month,” Quinn said, drawing my thoughts, at least most of them, from the broad shoulders of the three men sitting at the bar.

I didn’t say a thing, but Quinn looked at me. I gave her an I can’t say anything look as Calla, Sadie, and Dahlia all chimed in with varying degrees of interest.

“What for, I wonder?” Dahlia asked.

“She was here for a short trip like a year and a half ago. I remember her talking to Aiden at the bar one night.” Quinn raised her brows.

Dahlia sighed. “Oh, now that would be beautiful.”

Calla snickered. “Okay, little romantic heart.”

Sadie nudged her with an elbow lightly. “Seriously, though. Aiden is the best. He’s gentle and he’s such a good dad.”

“I can vouch for Aiden. I work with him on Night in Bloom and he’s great. Very professional, very knowledgeable, and if I don’t sound like too much of a creep, completely attractive in that salt of the earth way.”

Quinn nodded. “He is definitely handsome.”

I thought of the man in question next to Madeline. I couldn’t see it, but I didn’t know either of them. They seemed like total opposites to me, but maybe that’s what she’d want, or he’d need. Who knew?

“I’m excited to see her around,” I said, not giving away anything I knew or the fact that she was a client at Saint Securities, even though I desperately wanted to.

“Last time she was here, I saw her at the bar that one time and not again,” Quinn said.

“She came to the shop once, but I only know that because Garrett had to compose himself for a minute before he went back out and actually delivered her to go order.” Sadie’s fond expression spoke of how she felt about her most loyal employee. Garrett had been a fixture at Rise and Shine almost as long as it’d been open, from what she had told me. He was a good kid and incredibly devoted to her.

“Maybe she’ll get out a bit more. Or maybe she’s coming here to hide away. I can’t imagine being so public like that,” Dahlia said, then her eyes shot to Calla. “I mean, I guess you can.”

Calla chuckled. “That I can. But honestly, it’s different. I’m famous in one way because of what I do, but she’s famous for both what she does and who she is, if that makes sense. Like, she’s doing a job few women do as a high-profile CEO, plus she’s doing it well, and then she’s also targeted for that. I don’t know. I am guessing some of our fame experiences overlap, but she’s kind of a paragon and I obviously had a different road.”

Calla’s “road” entailed being publicly derided and blamed for her mother’s death, on top of being criticized for basically everything about herself.

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