Haley's Mountain Man by Tracy Madison

Author:Tracy Madison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373657612
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Early summer had arrived in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and Haley’s days were, once again, becoming hectic and long. Regrettably, neither the slowly warming weather nor the increasing surge of tourists had managed to relieve her of her misery.

She was still itchy. Still restless. Still waiting.

The only difference was that this time, she knew precisely what—or, in this case, who—she was waiting for. Day by day, her belief in Gavin, in them, in the hope that he would come to his senses and undo what he did, was starting to waver.

Ironically, all of her concerns about her brothers scaring off Gavin now seemed ludicrous. It seemed she had done a fine enough job of that all on her own, even if she had no comprehension of why, of what might have happened between the kiss and that blasted email.

Each day since that horrible, horrible night in his driveway, she’d sent him an email of her own. Just one a day, filled with basic, newsy chatter. She kept everything she wrote light, easy, in the hopes he’d eventually respond. So far, he hadn’t.

Heck, as far she knew, he deleted each and every one without reading so much as a word. As far as she knew, he hadn’t thought of her once in the past several weeks.

She, of course, hadn’t stopped thinking about him. And she’d tried.

Antsy, Haley stood from her desk chair and stretched, and decided a coffee break was in order. She needed to work off some of this pent-up energy, and while they had plenty of coffee at the restaurant, she thought a walk to the Beanery would help in that regard.

She slipped out the back door, preferring not to engage in conversation with any of the customers or employees, or her family. While her brothers had stopped badgering her about her “mooning eyes,” they and her parents had picked up on her current state of moping. They were concerned, naturally, and had taken to hovering in her general vicinity whenever they could.

She loved them. Of course she did. But sometimes, as Gavin kept right on saying, a person did better on her own. Right now, for Haley, was one of those times.

Mostly because pretending to be happy or cheerful didn’t appeal, and she didn’t much feel like offering an explanation to her concerned parents or brothers. She was still processing, she guessed, still attempting to find an explanation that made sense. Without this understanding, she didn’t know how to proceed. Other than to wait and mope and send one email a day.

Being outside calmed her spirit, as it almost always did. She enjoyed the warmth of the sun on her shoulders, the touch of the breeze on her skin, the natural beauty all around her. And after being sequestered in her office for hours, the simple act of moving her body proved successful in easing some of her restlessness. She smiled here and there, to folks she passed on her path to the coffee shop. Said hi a time or two, as well.

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