Project Love (Cascade Brides Series) by Blythe Bonnie

Author:Blythe, Bonnie [Blythe, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-11-06T22:00:00+00:00

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The week refused to pass with any semblance of speed. Charity's face ached from her faux smiles and her lonely tip jar only confirmed the truth. The moment her fifteen minute break started, she went outside, needing the moist air to cool her over-heated cheeks. She leaned her head back against the back door and closed her eyes.

A week without Daniel was a punishment she wasn't sure she could bear. And yet she'd brought it on herself. For his own good, she reminded herself. For one moment I acted in an unselfish capacity and cut him loose before I could do more damage. But the knowledge didn't help when her eyes continued to stray toward the doors at the time he usually came in. It was a cold comfort when she saw him on television and he looked relaxed and confident as he discussed the latest issues with the city contract.

By this point he was probably relieved he'd made such a narrow escape. He deserved a woman who wouldn't disappoint him like she had. Charity swallowed hard as she remembered his words. And the woman he found would be tall, statuesque, and stunning. Not small, sickly, and prone to self-imposed martyrdom. She would be educated and have glittering social skills that would grease the rails of his upwardly mobile career. Not someone indifferent to higher education. Not someone who broke up with the perfect guy.

Charity pulled in a deep breath, forcing her mind away from her failures. Suddenly the door behind her moved. She jumped away as it swung outward.

Jessie poked his head outside. “Coming back in any time soon?”

“I was just on my break,” she said, surreptitiously sniffing back a wayward tear.

“Your break ended five minutes ago.”

Charity pulled her phone from her pocket and checked the time. “Oh, gosh! I'm sorry.” Returning her phone, she entered the building and grabbed her apron from the rack.

“I guess relationship problems make some people lose track of time.”

She shook her head. “Don't go there, Jessie.”

“What?” he asked in apparent innocence. “Tabor hasn't been in all week. You're moping around, scaring off the customers...obviously there's trouble in paradise.”

“Oh, please,” she said, yanking the ties behind her back.

“I'm serious! Not even pumpkin muffins can win the day with you looking like you've been sucking on lemons.”

“What?” she said, outraged. “I do not look like that!”

“Close enough.”

“That's Grade A baloney.”

He smiled suddenly. “Anger might work. Heck, I'll even take sarcasm. Anything but the moping thing.”

Sending him a dark look, she headed to the counter. A woman approached, her smile slipping when she saw her. The toddler in her arms burst into tears.

Oh, great.

“Uh, oh, someone's upset,” Charity said, hoping to jostle the little tyke from her crying jag. “Would a free cookie help?”

The mother brightened at the word 'free' and even the little girl somehow sensed sugar was in the offing.

Charity grabbed a piece of wax paper and pulled two cookies from the case. She handed one to the woman and the other to the toddler.

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