Need You by Stacy Finz

Author:Stacy Finz [Finz, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The next morning, Delaney got out of bed, padded across the hallway to her studio, and checked the window for Colt’s cruiser. It wasn’t there. The poor man never caught a break.

She planned to check the online version of the paper to see if they’d found the little boy. But the shade installers were coming and she didn’t want them to catch her in her nightgown.

She quickly got ready, went downstairs, and put on a pot of coffee. While waiting for it to brew, she fired up her laptop and searched for the story. According to the news, they’d found the boy at five a.m., huddled under a tree about three miles from where his parents had lost him. He appeared to be fine but was transported to a local hospital to be evaluated. Thank goodness it was summer. In winter, he would’ve frozen to death.

It had certainly been a long night for Colt. She thought about what he’d said, how he wanted to sleep with her. Never before had she been as physically attracted to a man as she was to Colt. But they were both tender from their last relationships. Not a good time to get involved, especially because she’d be leaving soon.

The doorbell rang, pulling Delaney from her thoughts. The shade installers. While the men worked upstairs she ate her breakfast and kept one ear open for Colt’s car. At around ten Hannah called.

“You want to meet the gang for lunch at Old Glory?”

Delaney wasn’t exactly sure who the gang was. Probably Deb and Foster. She agreed immediately, hoping that the installers would be done by noon. She changed into a long, flowy skirt, a ruched crossover top, and a pair of sandals, then accessorized with an assortment of sterling silver bangles on one arm. What the hell, she thought, and even put on a full face of makeup. Staring at her reflection in the mirror, she looked like the woman she’d been in LA, before everything went to hell with Robert.

Happy and confident.

She supposed some of it was due to Colt’s attraction to her and, bizarrely, also due to the cargo pants. It felt marvelous to finally complete a project from beginning to end and to actually be proud of the results, even if they weren’t the couture designs that had made her famous.

She went to check on the progress of the workers and found that they had finished and were cleaning up. One of the installers demonstrated how to open and close the shades with the remote control. Nice and easy, and now she’d be able to work into the night with her drafting light on.

She waited for them to leave and walked into town, enjoying the last days of summer. The temperature hovered in the midseventies, and even from a few blocks away Delaney could see the edges of Lake Paiute, the wide expanse of the Sierra Nevada range, as well as the chairlifts going up and down the mountainsides. That’s how clear it was.

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