Finding Mr. Perfect by Nikki Rivers

Author:Nikki Rivers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

9

HANNAH THREW OPEN her bedroom window and let the warmth of the morning inside. Birds were singing, the sun was out. It was a lovely day for a bridge party. Unfortunately, Hannah’s mood wasn’t nearly as lovely.

She hadn’t slept well at all the night before. She kept hearing Danny’s laugh when he told her to keep her nose out of his cologne. She seemed to have lost some brain cells since arriving in Timber Bay. Because she knew for a fact that she’d never, ever gone around sappily sniffing a man’s cologne bottle. Any man.

Was there something to the legend of the tunnel of love, after all? Could her strange behavior be due to some sort of spell?

“Nonsense,” she scoffed as she turned away from the window. She didn’t have time for legends and spells. Hannah dealt in reality. At least, she did before she came to Timber Bay, she reminded herself uncomfortably.

There was a phone next to her bed. Maybe she should call Lissa. She could use someone to talk to. Someone to offer support. Someone who would keep reminding her how unprofessional it was to fantasize about the son of Granny’s Grains Great American Family.

She started to reach for the phone, then snatched her hand back. What was she thinking? Lissa would probably tell her to go for it. No, Lissa was definitely not the person to give her a dose of reality. Better to put her hopes on the Honorable Ed Miller.

Hannah had a late-morning appointment with the mayor and she wanted to shoot some preliminary photos of downtown and the town square before she met with him in his office at City Hall. If that didn’t make her act like a professional, nothing would.

She threw open the closet door and looked at her meager selection of clothes. She wished she had something more feminine to wear. She pictured Kate’s friends in flowered dresses and hats although she really had nothing to base this on except old movies. What did the modern woman wear to a bridge club afternoon? She shrugged. Didn’t matter, really. She had a choice of khakis, her black pantsuit, or jeans. She’d never been frivolous about clothes. There was no frothy, flowered dress hanging amid the button-downs and T-shirts. Oh well, she thought as she grabbed the pantsuit. It was a good choice for her meeting with the mayor. It would just have to do for the bridge club, too.

After she was dressed, she repeated her surveillance routine of the night before before going out into the hall. Avoiding Danny was even more crucial this morning. She managed to get downstairs without running into him.

She found Kate arranging flowers at the dining room table. Hannah was relieved to see that they were perfectly normal daisies. She told Kate that she wouldn’t be home for lunch, but that she’d be back by two in time for the card club, then headed out on foot. Downtown Timber Bay was only a few blocks from the Walkers’ house and City Hall was right on the square.

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