Girl in the Dark by Elleby Harper

Author:Elleby Harper [Harper, Elleby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

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Tag pulled the trusty Jessop work Chevy up behind Cass’s blue Toyota, parked in the street in front of her house.

She lived in a music box-sized Victorian house perched on a hillock above the town on Black Hollow Avenue, just two blocks back from Main Street. He knew she had taken a lease on the house when she arrived in Peppermint Vale. Despite how rundown it was and in dire need of repairs to the electrical and plumbing systems, she had fallen in love with it and negotiated with her landlady to purchase it.

This was one of the things Tag had learned from her over dinner two nights ago during which her antagonistic attitude towards him and Lincoln had mellowed. That night, after eating the meal she had cooked for them, he and Lincoln had squabbled with good natured drunkenness about founding their law partnership.

“Alphabetically it should be Carragher and Jessop,” Lincoln had joked.

“It has to be Jessop and Carragher because I’m graduating before you and therefore I will be the more senior partner,” Tag rebutted. “Hence I deserve the respect of being listed first on the letterhead.

“Ah, but the name Carragher has more prestige. The Carraghers are linked with politics and the Jessops are associated with construction,” Lincoln pointed out.

“More like destruction,” Cass had interrupted on a laugh.

“No trading in on the Carragher family name and connections!” Tag booed, throwing a cushion towards Lincoln and catching Cass off guard, igniting a free for all pillow fight that had ended with the three of them in giggles on the floor.

Instead of leaping out the cab, Tag took a deep breath. He knew Cass was home. Not only had he parked behind her car, he had also swung by the hospital to ensure she didn’t have a shift that day. Of course, it didn’t mean she wasn’t out with Lincoln.

He brought his hand back to the steering wheel and clamped it there. Cass and Lincoln had some sort of attraction flaring between them, and Lincoln always got the girl. Always.

So why had he shown up unannounced at Cass’s home? He had news for her, it was true. Still, he could have told her over the phone. His secret motive was to check on her. Last night he had discovered that Lincoln had taken Cass skiing while he was working out how to massage Cass’s environmental suggestions into a formula his father would approve of. After a day of heavy and sometimes heated negotiation, he had returned to the condo to discover that Lincoln had spent the day teaching Cass how to ski.

“Can you believe this, a girl who lives on a mountain and doesn’t know how to ski!” Lincoln’s words were aimed at Tag, but his eyes never left Cass.

“Lincoln put a picnic together for us,” Cass revealed.

“To be honest it was more of a liquid lunch. Plenty of champagne with a little Brie and black olives on bread.”

Champagne had always been Lincoln’s go to for seduction. If dessert followed it was always Hershey’s kisses to go with his own.

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