Serenity Harbor by RaeAnne Thayne

Author:RaeAnne Thayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2017-07-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

“YOU’RE POSITIVE HE’S COMING?” Samantha kept her gaze glued to the garden gate on the side of the house that had been festooned with flowers and ribbons by McKenzie and her little squadron of decorators armed with florist wires and ribbons.

Katrina really didn’t want to talk to Sam about Bowie, but she didn’t know how to tell her friend the topic made her uncomfortable. She shifted, searching her mind for a way to change the subject, but nothing came to her. She didn’t know how to avoid answering a direct question, anyway.

The awkwardness of it was becoming overwhelming. Sam had a serious thing for Bowie, which left Katrina with a hollow feeling in her gut she wasn’t sure she wanted to examine too closely.

She had told him he should date Samantha, had extolled her friend’s many virtues to him. How would Katrina react if Bowie actually took her up on that suggestion? Would she be able to bear seeing the two of them dating?

She wasn’t sure she wanted to examine the answer to that too closely.

“He said he would stop in briefly,” she finally answered, “but maybe he changed his mind. Maybe Milo wasn’t feeling well. Or maybe he was having a bad evening and Bo didn’t want to risk behavior issues in the middle of a crowd.”

Sam’s features fell. “Oh, I hope he makes it—for Wyn and Cade’s sake, I mean.”

“Of course you do,” Katrina murmured. “Oh, look. There’s my cousin Josh from Idaho Falls. You had such a crush on him in junior high, remember?”

Sam whirled around to where Kat’s tall, good-looking cousin on her mother’s side was talking to Marshall and Andie. “Is he still dating that dental hygienist?”

“Last I heard from my mom, they broke up. I think he was ready to settle down and she wasn’t. I know he didn’t bring a date to the wedding. Let’s go talk to him.”

It was a fairly obvious ploy, but Sam didn’t seem to notice. “How’s my breath?” her friend asked.

Katrina sniffed the air when Sam breathed in her face. “Fine.”

“I’d better pop a mint anyway.”

She opened the tiny jeweled purse that dangled from her wrist and pulled out a Tic Tac container, then shook out a couple of mints and handed one to Katrina.

When she reached in again to pull out a compact and started rubbing her tongue over her teeth to clear away any stray lipstick stains that might dare cling, Katrina had to roll her eyes. “You look beautiful, as usual. Let’s hurry before my mom matches him up with one of Barbara Serrano’s nieces who are in town to work the restaurant summer crowds.”

As she hoped, Sam let herself be distracted. They went over and struck up a conversation with Josh, who ran a fairly lucrative outdoor clothing store, and within a few moments, Josh was asking Sam to dance.

When he led her out to the dance floor set up on Cade’s large patio, Katrina sighed with relief—and maybe a little sadness.

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