Find Wonder in All Things by Karen M. Cox

Author:Karen M. Cox [Cox, Karen M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781936009176
Publisher: Meryton Press
Published: 2012-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Laurel was in the kitchen when she heard a knock at her front door. Before she could dry her hands and get to it, the door opened and a voice called out, “Hello, is anybody here?”

“Oh, hey, Ginny. I’m in the kitchen. Come on in.” Her sister appeared in the doorway. “What brings you here? You want something to drink?”

“Some water would be great.” Ginny accepted her glass with a smile of thanks. “I hope you don’t mind me just popping in like this. I haven’t seen the new kitchen, and I wanted to check out the place where my sister spends so much of her time.” She looked around. “I really like what you’ve done here. You’re so . . . artistic.”

Laurel rolled her eyes good-naturedly at the joke. “Well, I am an artist. But thanks.” She indicated a chair and sat down herself. “So, how’s it going with your houseguests?” Laurel asked, trying to sound disinterested.

“Well, we’re down by one.”

“Oh?”

“Yes, James is gone.”

Laurel swallowed hard and tried to think of something to say that wouldn’t convey the strange combination of relief and disappointment she felt, but Virginia continued before she could come up with anything.

“Yeah. He rented a cabin over near his sister’s for the rest of his stay.”

“I thought he was only staying a couple of weeks.”

“He told me he likes it here. He likes being able to see his sister, and since he has no job to get back to, he’s talking about hanging around for the rest of summer.”

“Oh?” Laurel’s ambivalence instantly changed to apprehension. She was not looking forward to running into James Marshall all summer.

“Yes. And he’s invited his former business partners for a visit. They’re arriving next week.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. The married one, Eric, he’s only staying for a couple of weeks, but the other one might stay a little longer.”

“That’s nice.”

“Laurel, can I ask you something?” Virginia sat down and fidgeted, turning her water glass in circles on Laurel’s tiny kitchen table.

“I suppose you can ask. Do I have to answer?”

Virginia smiled. “Not if you don’t want to, but after watching the two of you the other night at the cookout, I’m beginning to wonder what happened between you and James. I was gone that summer, but Stuart says you guys were always together. He thought James really had it bad for you. But then he just up and moves to Nashville the next winter and then to California a couple years after that, and Stu doesn’t hear from him for ages. And now, all of a sudden, he turns up again. Do you think he came back to see you?”

Laurel snorted. “No. In fact, I’m pretty sure I was the last person he wanted to see.”

Virginia looked at her and waited.

“We had a . . . relationship, I guess you’d call it. He wanted me to move with him to Nashville.”

Virginia’s eyebrows went up. “Wow, I had no idea it was that serious. Why didn’t you tell me?”

Laurel shrugged. “Like you

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