Love in the Heartland by Diana Currie

Author:Diana Currie [Currie, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 39985441
Published: 2018-04-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

"What about some smelling salts?"

"Smelling what... do you even know what smelling salts are?"

Maddie looked down at Nathan and shook her head, pressing her lips together to keep from laughing. "Like what my mom uses in the bath tub maybe? The strong smell would revive her."

Nathan raked his hand over his face in exasperation. He'd experienced women reacting to him in many different ways. Shock, excitement, hysteria, but this was a new one. "I can't sit on the kitchen floor holding her all afternoon. We should move her to the couch so she wakes up somewhere safe."

A giggle finally escaped Maddie's lips. "Maybe you're right. If she wakes up in your arms she'll just pass out again."

Nathan carefully lifted Holly up and carried her into the Sherratt's living room where he gently placed his overwhelmed fan on the couch. "Should we call a doctor?"

"Do you think she hit her head when she fell?" Maddie replied.

"No, I caught her in the air. I meant because she's still unconscious."

"Well, she's breathing, but now you have me worried," Maddie said as she knelt beside her best friend where she lay like Sleeping Beauty. "Holly. Holly?" she called while shaking her shoulders lightly.

Nathan pulled his phone out and began typing 'smelling salts' into Google when Maddie sighed loudly in relief. He glanced down and saw Holly's eyelids were starting to flutter. She was waking up. Part of him wanted to back up and slowly exit the room to give the girls some privacy and not make the situation worse by his mere presence. He could only imagine the embarrassment Holly must be feeling.

"Is he still here? He didn't leave, did he?" Holly asked in a panic. Her eyes darted around the room until she found Nathan standing behind the couch.

"Holly, are you okay?" Maddie demanded.

"Yeah, I just fainted. No big deal." She sat up and smoothed out her hair as if nothing had happened. "So, Nathan... I’m a huge fan of your work, as Maddie might have mentioned. I still can't believe that you're dating her. This is amazing. How long are you in town? Do you mind if I ask you some questions? There are so many things I've been dying to know."

Nathan and Maddie exchanged a quick glance. Nathan asked with his eyes if Maddie thought Holly was really okay. Maddie shrugged with an apologetic smile that reminded him that he had been warned she was eccentric. He laughed to himself and decided to just go with it. He slid down onto the couch at the opposite end of where Holly sat. Maddie followed his lead and settled into Joe's old armchair across from them.

"I think I can handle a few questions. I'll be in town until Monday morning. When Maddie leaves for school I'll be heading back to L.A." Nathan answered.

"That's not very much time. Not much time at all," she mused. "You have to get back to filming the new movie though, right?"

"Yep. We're all done in Louisiana so it's back to sound stage work next week.

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