Cape Light by Thomas Kinkade & Katherine Spencer

Author:Thomas Kinkade & Katherine Spencer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

“IT’S JUST SAM. I DON’T HAVE TO GO TO ANY TROUBLE,” Jessica kept telling herself as she got ready for their date on Saturday night. Sam did mention that he’d made reservations at a new restaurant, a few towns away in Hamilton, one that Jessica knew was quite expensive and fancy. She would have to dress up, she reasoned. He would probably be wearing a tie and sports jacket.

Jessica had a feeling that dinner out at a formal restaurant was not Sam’s favorite kind of outing, but that he was going the limit to impress her, to give her the type of evening he thought she liked. It was thoughtful of him, she had to admit.

She took out a beige suit, then pushed it aside and pulled out a blue print silk dress with a halter neckline instead. She had a white crocheted shawl that would work if it got cooler out.

As for her hair, she wasn’t sure what to do. She could tell Sam liked it down; she remembered how he’d looked at her the other day. She started brushing it out, intending to wear it down to please him. Then, just to be perverse, she twisted it back and pinned it up. She didn’t want Sam Morgan to think she cared what he liked, one way or the other. It was bad enough that she was actually going out with him. She didn’t have to dress to please him besides.

She would see him just this once, Jessica told herself. It would be pleasant, fun. But that would be that. She wasn’t going to get herself entangled in something too complicated. Some men could just date you and date you, until . . . until forever, without it ever adding up to anything. Like Paul? she wondered.

No, she was sure her dates with Paul were adding up to something meaningful, though she had only heard from him once, a brief e-mail when he arrived in Minneapolis. He left the phone number of his hotel, but Jessica didn’t want to call him first. He was probably swamped with work and the crisis out there. She would just have to wait to hear from him.

Sam arrived promptly at seven. She opened the door and found him holding a beautiful bouquet—daisies, snapdragons, dusky pink lilies, chrysanthemums, and large lavender flowers with trumpet-shaped blossoms that she couldn’t identify.

“These are for you,” he said.

“Thanks, they’re lovely.” Jessica bent her head to catch the fragrance, and became more conscious instead of Sam’s aftershave, a pleasant spicy scent.

“They’re so unusual. Did you get them in a flower shop?” she asked curiously. No “routine” pink roses, she noticed. Was that on purpose?

“Uh, no. I drove up to the Potters’ orchard. Sophie helped me pick them out.”

“They’re beautiful,” she said, wondering if he made a special trip to the orchard just for that purpose. “I’ll just put them in water before we go.”

Sam followed her into the kitchen, watching as she took a vase from the cupboard. “How’s the garden coming?”

“Pretty good; I worked on it all day.

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