St. Helena Vineyard Series: St. Helena Holiday (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Grace Conley

Author:Grace Conley
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-10-02T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

“We are going to settle this today,” Ben vowed, looking in the mirror in the men’s room at the fire station. Another week had passed, and he still hadn’t managed to kiss the girl again.

In fact, he was starting to wonder if she was avoiding him.

It was not for lack of trying to find a way kiss her. And he fantasized about doing a lot more.

He wondered idly if he could get Nate DeLuca to rent him the wine vault at the Napa Grand and have a romantic dinner for two set up in there. With lock-in service. Then he scrapped that thought, knowing that Nate was the girl in question’s hot-blooded Italian cousin.

Ben simply could not get Chiara alone in a room, and she wasn’t overly pursuing private time with him. He was frustrated, liked her but didn’t know where he stood.

He desired telling her, but needed it to be just between the two of them, which was hard in a small town and even harder working in a firehouse.

And they did seem to have to be around people a LOT in their co-chair duties. AND he didn’t want to be a re-bound relationship, he wanted to be taken seriously by a woman.

Too many frickin’ ands.

He was increasingly sure that she was the right woman, but that it was the wrong time. For her, not for him.

Her current behavior was downright confusing for someone who had just kissed him silly while trapped in a wine vault.

Maybe she’s just not that into you.

The guys at the station would have a field day if they knew he was sitting around mooning like some lovesick girl. But he privately admitted, that was sort of what he was doing.

Yep. You’re into her all right. But she’s definitely not into you.

“Why not?” he said out loud.

“Why not what?”

Caught, he said the first thing that popped into his head. “Why not call and ask the Napa Grand if they can move our dessert and wine flight tasting up? We have some time at lunch tomorrow, would be good to get that done so we can check it off the list.”

“Good, yeah, that would get us out of here earlier. Okay, let me text their coordinator and see.”

She smiled at him, friendly but…carefully distant.

She’d taken charge in their co-chair relationship, and kept him running around like an errand boy. Chiara would smile and hand over stacks of invitations to stuff (what was that little extra piece of opaque frosted paper for anyway?) or send him out with his wagon to pick up Silent Auction donations as more and more businesses were donating things every day.

She’d set up her own Holiday Hearts Ball Command Center binder and filled it with seating plans, photos, and diagrams on how to manage a charity ball.

He hadn’t realized that planning a charity ball was akin to planning a war.

Battalion Chief Baudouin loved Chiara, tried to hire her as an office coordinator. She thanked him, and told him she was just visiting St.

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