Coming Home to Heritage Cove by Helen Rolfe

Author:Helen Rolfe [Rolfe, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

Between them, Harvey and Melissa spent most of the afternoon and early evening delivering flyers for the Wedding Dress Ball to local businesses, houses in the Cove and a slightly wider area, before meeting up back at Barney’s place.

Harvey watched Melissa after they’d shared a cup of tea with Barney and headed outside toward the barn. While the red of her hair had faded, it still shone as though she were years younger, that same girl he’d fallen for. He wished he could switch off his feelings, but it was getting more difficult to do by the day. Until she’d shown up in the Cove again he would’ve said he was over her, but now she was here, he knew he was anything but. The more time he spent with her, the more he remembered what they’d once had and what she now had with someone else.

‘I phoned the table-and-chair-hire company,’ she told him as he opened the doors to the barn and folded them back. ‘We’re almost there.’

He positioned a stepladder at one end of the barn. His job now was to inspect all the beams, something he did periodically to check for rot, mildew or any deterioration. Catching things early was key and some beams had been repaired, pieces had been replaced, and at least he didn’t have to worry about the concrete floor, which pretty much looked after itself. The only other scan he’d need to do was of the sides of the barn in case there were nails protruding or splintered wood that could catch an unsuspecting person or their outfit.

‘Let me hold the ladder,’ Melissa insisted when he climbed up to the topmost step.

‘No need.’ He wanted to get rid of the cobwebs above the barn doors. There’d be more soon enough but it didn’t hurt to keep the place clean as they went along.

‘If you fall too, I’ll have to organise this whole event on my own and I’m really not up for that.’

He smiled down at her. ‘Fine.’

When he finished up and climbed back down the ladder her body was so close he brushed past it and the jolt between them was something he knew they both felt.

‘I’ll go back inside and try to see if I can get Barney to do at least one exercise with me,’ she said, scurrying off in the direction of the house.

She might be with someone else but he wasn’t sorry he still had an effect on her. ‘Good luck, make him listen.’

‘I’ll sweep the floor when I get back,’ she called over her shoulder as she left.

He carried on checking for splinters of wood and exposed nails and dealt with each in turn.

‘Knock, knock!’ came a voice from the barn door and when he looked up from his position in the corner of the barn, it was Casey, a girl who’d moved to Heritage Cove with her family a couple of years ago and who he’d dated a handful of times.

‘Hey, Casey, how’s it going? What brings you here?’

‘I wondered if you’d had a chance to think about my proposition.

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