Lonely in Longreach by Eva Scott

Author:Eva Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Escape Publishing
Published: 2020-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

Sarah would be lying if she hadn’t considered turning and going back to her motel room as she stood outside the Royal Arms. All she had to do was walk in that room and she’d know if Lonely Sam of Longreach might be the man for her. It took her a full minute to gather the courage to push the door open and step inside.

Maddie ran up to her, full of excitement and for a moment Sarah thought she might hug her. The girl restrained herself, barely, taking Sarah’s hand instead and leading her into the room. She bobbed along in Maddie’s wake, taking in the faces of the people assembled to greet her.

Levi gave her a shy nod of hello. Joe and Charlene McRae welcomed her warmly, clearly proud of their little girl. Maddie’s sister, Ariel, was introduced next. Sarah barely registered anything they said due to the presence of a man waiting quietly for his turn. She longed to get a proper look at him, but needing to give her full attention to her hosts meant she’d have to wait.

Finally, it was Sam’s turn to be introduced. She turned very slowly. Time stretched like it does in that moment at the Oscars when they open the envelope and pull out the card with the name of the winner printed on it. Everyone holds their breath. And the winner is …

‘Oh!’ Her startled response popped out of her mouth before her brain had the chance to get past the fact that the sexiest man she’d ever seen stood right in front of her.

‘Hello.’ He held out his hand. ‘I’m Sam Costello, Levi’s dad.’

Sarah’s hand disappeared inside his warm, firm handshake. His blue eyes twinkled at her as if he knew the effect he had on her and was enjoying every minute.

‘I’m … I’m Sarah Lewis.’ She’d nearly forgotten her own name.

‘It’s nice to meet you. Journalist extraordinaire, I hear.’

‘Something like that.’ She looked down at her shoes, already covered with a light layer of dust. She looked at the faces around her. She looked anywhere but at Sam Costello. He exuded male energy of the kind yet to be studied by quantum physics. The kind that could, without a doubt, be used to prove Entanglement Theory because she sure as hell wanted to get entangled with him. He had an aura that charged every particle in her body.

Sarah looked up to find four pairs of eyes trained on her, as if waiting for something. She blinked, at a loss as to what to say next. Sam’s presence overwhelmed her. Was this what her mother had felt the night she’d met Dad? This weird shift of gravity as if the whole universe had moved sideways when you weren’t looking.

Thankfully they’d all sat down and Joe McRae had begun the kind of lighthearted banter she could deal with while her insides calmed the hell down.

She only half listened, caught up in Sam Costello. She wanted to study every inch of him.

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