Hope Falls: Heart of Hope (Kindle Worlds) by Lucy Score

Author:Lucy Score [Score, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

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Beau had never seen kids eat ice cream so fast. Fifty percent of the team was complaining of brain freeze, but Lissa and Savannah showed no mercy.

“Come on, guys! This is a competition! Who’s going to win?” Lissa cheered, bouncing the wide-eyed Lyric on her hip.

Coming off of a tie, apparently the team’s first non-loss of the season, the Polar Bears were charged for victory and ate with complete disregard to the side effects. He wondered how many would be puking in the car on the way home.

“Shovel it in, Dad,” Savannah prodded Bob. “You’re competing, too.”

Bristol, for her part, kept her mouth shut and flushed scarlet every time Lissa or Savannah rushed someone through their dessert.

Harry and Marlene Brooks, owners of Hope Falls’ ice cream parlor Two Scoops, enjoyed the chaotic consumption. Two Scoops was quintessential small town America with its candy striped awning outside and the white metal chairs inside. The ice cream cooler was full of all the standards and included a few dazzling options that suckered kids in with their fluorescent colors.

Beau tried to enjoy his scoop of Rocky Road, but all he could think about was his tangled up feelings for Bristol. Every time she looked at him with all the heat and the promise of pleasures to come, he lost his damn mind.

He ran through a dozen excuses for not telling her, considering and then rejecting each one. There was no getting around not telling her why he was here, why he came here looking for her.

Beau searched his memory banks for any other woman who had gotten to him like Bristol. There was no one. It wasn’t just her looks, which were stunning even at six in the morning. It was her rawness, her strength. The pain of her loss had left her vulnerable, but her resolve to keep going, to keep it together, was heroic in his eyes.

He wanted her, and he suspected that having her would only be the beginning of his infatuation with Bristol. He looked up as Violet climbed into the chair opposite him. She’d abandoned her giggling crowd of friends near the front window.

“Do you like my mom?” Violet demanded over her two scoops of cookies and cream.

“What?”

She rolled her eyes with exasperation. “My mom? Tall, pretty, bossy? Do you like her?”

“I don’t think I should be having this conversation with you,” Beau said, skirting the issue.

Violet took a deep breath and leaned over her ice cream. “I think you should think about liking her.”

“Okay. And why is that?” Beau stopped looking for an adult to rescue him from the conversation.

“She spends all her time on me or work or helping other people. But she doesn’t go out and have fun. She doesn’t have a boyfriend, and I think she should have one. My dad has Lissa, and he’s real happy. But Mom’s been so sad since Aunt Hope died.”

“You think a boyfriend will make her happier?”

Violet shrugged. “She smiles a lot when she’s around you, and it’s been a long time since she’s smiled.

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