It's a Wonderful Wife by Janet Chapman

Author:Janet Chapman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Jesse decided one advantage of driving Maine’s back roads was that law enforcement apparently had more important things to do than patrol them for speeders. He made it to Castle Cove in plenty of time to get a post office box and give Nathaniel an actual address, and even managed to hit the marina before it closed.

The powerful cruiser he’d purchased last fall was really a lobster boat rigged for personal use, and he’d only been able to spend four days running it under the tutelage of its builder—a soft-spoken Swede named Sven—before having to put it in winter storage. But to his surprise, the marina had brought it to the harbor eighteen days ago, since he’d apparently been too busy flying all over the world to remember to call and tell them to wait until he got back.

So now he was the one waiting on a small group of what appeared to be tourists to finish ambling across the entrance to the pier. But instead of turning once they passed, Jesse froze when he spotted a woman wearing a blue hat exit a store farther up the sidewalk, and didn’t start breathing again until she turned enough for him to see her face.

Talk about having Miss Glace on the brain; this was the second time since reaching town that he’d mistaken a woman for Cadi. It had to be the hats. Hell, he’d swear half the female population of Castle Cove was wearing them. But then, maybe lots of women wore hats in the summer and he’d just never noticed before meeting Cadi.

Then again, maybe they were a Down East thing.

A horn honked, and Jesse lifted his hand in apology and turned into the parking lot. He pulled into the empty slot marked with the slip number the marina had given him and shut off the truck, so damn glad to be smelling ocean air instead of jet fuel that it was all he could do not to rest his head on the steering wheel again. But the bottle of Aberfeldy in his overnight bag was enough incentive to send him in search of his boat, and with any luck he could haul his sleeping bag up to the high ridge in time to watch the sun set. He grabbed his bag out of the backseat and headed down the ramp—which was rather steep because it was low tide—to a maze of floating docks filled with recreational vessels of every size and shape imaginable. He stopped to read the sign pointing out the slip numbers, but looked up when he heard a shout and saw Oren Hatch at the other end of the long anchoring dock. The harbormaster had one arm outstretched, apparently directing a group of kayakers paddling through the congested harbor to put ashore on a narrow beach beside the boat launch ramp.

Satisfied they were following orders, Oren turned and spotted him, waved Jesse forward as he started toward him, and extended his hand when they met. “Good to see yah again, Jesse.

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