Country Hearts by Cindi Madsen

Author:Cindi Madsen [Madsen, Cindi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hallmark Publishing
Published: 2020-01-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The name at the top of Jemma’s inbox Tuesday afternoon made her tummy feel like she’d downed a package of Pop Rocks and followed it up with soda.

She quickly glanced around, confirming she was alone before clicking to read the email, savoring each word and reading it in Wyatt’s voice.

I don’t check my email often, so I just got this. What do you need me to do to help with the play? I’m pretty good at using my overwhelming strength for making messes if that helps.

PS, better text your reply so I’ll see it today instead of next week after you’re cursing my name for not helping you with your disasters.

Her phone was in her hand, her thumbs moving across the screen as she let herself grin like a smitten Cheshire cat.

First of all, my play is not a disaster. Second of all, how are you at using your perfectly sufficient muscles to swing a hammer?

After a moment or two spent waiting, she refocused on the stack of papers in front of her. Logically, she knew Wyatt was often in the middle of manual labor tasks that didn’t allow him to quickly shoot off a text, but her paranoid brain traveled back to those days when he hadn’t replied.

No more sitting around waiting on him. She wasn’t going to be that girl anymore.

Her phone chimed, and she scrambled to pick it up, making it clear she wasn’t quite as cool as she was mentally telling herself to be.

Wyatt’s text read, Downgraded to perfectly sufficient? Really? That’s how you want to play this?

You’re the one who said overwhelming, not me, Jemma replied. I like to call it speaking the truth.

Of course, she knew if she pulled out her dictionary app and typed in “overwhelming,” it would tell her the word was an adjective, one that meant very great in amount or so great as to render resistance useless. Which might describe the way she felt in Wyatt’s presence a little too accurately.

Apparently you need another demonstration, Wyatt texted. When do you need me?

Saying “right now” probably wouldn’t be in the play-it-cool category, but she missed him. Missed the tantalizing joy being around him brought on and how much she laughed whenever they were together. The fact that she’d accidentally fallen asleep on his shoulder Saturday night proved she was growing more and more comfortable around him.

All those lonely feelings she was used to living with were long gone any time she was around Wyatt and Bailey.

Jemma replied, Saturday is the big set-building day so we can have a full week to practice onstage. Several students and parents will meet in the gym at three.

Her phone rang, vibrating in her palm, and a combination of disappointment and impatience rose up. Who was calling, and why did they have to do it while she was in the middle of talking to Wyatt? Who knew how long she had before he’d be on to another activity?

Every negative emotion faded when she saw Wyatt was the one calling her.

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