Canyon Weddings by Julie Jarnagin

Author:Julie Jarnagin [JARNAGIN, JULIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63058-947-9
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Connor sat back in his desk chair and closed his eyes. The fluorescent light buzzing overhead gave him a headache. He had planned to spend a rare morning in the office answering e-mails and taking care of dreaded paperwork, but instead he had scrolled through the list of contacts on his phone and called every roofer, contractor, plumber, and electrician he could think of that Laura might try to hire. If she wouldn’t let him help her, at least he could try to use some of his strong relationships with these guys to get her better prices. She didn’t even have to know about it.

He ran through the list in his head again. Wasn’t Herschel Long living in a retirement community now? Surely he wouldn’t have agreed to a job that large.

The fact that none of the trades had heard from Laura could have meant she had gone back to Florida, a thought that made his jaw clench with frustration.

His chair groaned as he leaned forward. One glance at the clock on the wall told him he needed to go through the stack of messages Lillian had set on his desk and then leave to meet the electrician at a job site. He shuffled through the pink slips of paper—mostly salesmen trying to hawk the latest building products.

He lifted one message up to eye level. Did he know a Rachel? The number had an unfamiliar area code, and the box underneath read, Regarding Laura.

Connor grabbed his cell phone and punched in the numbers as quickly as his fingers would let him. He picked up the note again to see that she had called the office yesterday.

“Hello?” said a breathy voice.

Connor stood from his chair and walked across the room. “Hi. This is Connor Overman. You left me a message?”

He pushed the office door, and it closed with a click.

“Thanks for calling me back. We didn’t get a chance to meet when I was in town. I’m Laura’s friend.” Rachel spoke like an announcer giving the disclaimer at the end of a commercial, fitting in twice as many words in a single breath than he thought possible.

Connor paced across the small room. “No problem. What can I do for you?”

“Well, I hope this isn’t awkward. I know you and Thomas are friends, and Laura told me that you’re helping her with the house.”

Connor opened his mouth to explain that was no longer the case, but she didn’t slow down enough to give him a chance to speak.

“And well, I’m just looking out for my best friend and feeling pretty helpless from a thousand miles away.”

Connor’s pulse quickened at the possibility that Laura may have decided to stay in Wyatt Bend. He took a foam basketball and tossed it into the hoop hanging from the back of his office door.

“I wanted to ask you not to tell Laura about what’s going on,” Rachel said. “You haven’t already, have you? I mean, Thomas has the right to date whoever he wants now, but it seems pretty fishy.

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