Summer at the Shore by Carol Ross

Author:Carol Ross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE NEXT MORNING Mia stared at the full dish of cat food on her porch and let the disappointment seep into her. No cats. No Jay. She never should have let him kiss her. Or kissed him back. What had she been thinking? Because now she had a taste of what she couldn’t have and it was pure torture. She’d finally found a guy she really thought she could like and he was off-limits. And apparently, not only according to her own criteria, but to his as well. That bothered her, too. Even though she knew it wasn’t fair for her to care. He had every right not to want to be with her just like she didn’t want to be with him.

The best thing to do would be to maintain some distance. But somehow, along with her growing attraction for the guy, avoiding him was now officially impossible. His little brother was working for her, and Levi was doing a better job than she could have even imagined. He and Dr. Anthony were hitting it off as well. Levi was now doing additional work for him, and taking care of their yard, house and cats during Ted’s trips to Portland.

She would just have to find a way to keep things friendly, platonic. Which shouldn’t be all that difficult seeing as how he intended to do the same. Except for that comment about continuing their conversation. After what happened yesterday, that made her heart race.

If only this distracting chemistry between them didn’t exist, she knew they could be great friends. The problem was, it was there. And she liked him. A lot. She wished they could be more than friends. But they couldn’t. So...

So here she was about to spend the day with him again. She was converting a storage room at the clinic into a “cat room” for Lucky Cats. Jay and the kids had volunteered to help. She couldn’t very well turn down his help. Uh-huh.

Mia stood, picked up the dish and carried it inside the house.

“Still no sign of Jane or Edward?” her mom asked from where she stood in front of the sink washing kale for their breakfast smoothies.

“I know. Me, too.”

“What? Mia...?”

Mia slowly became aware that Nora was giving her an odd look.

“I’m sorry, Mom. What?”

“Are you okay, honey?”

“Yep. Fine.”

Nora looked unconvinced as she turned on the blender. Mia covered the dish and put it in the fridge. She’d try again later.

“You know what else is weird?” Mia said when the blender stopped rumbling.

“I don’t know the first weird thing, but I’ll bite. What’s weird?”

“In the last few weeks, we’ve logged calls from people reporting stray cats hanging around. In the last couple days, Charlotte and I have been calling back to get details to set up traps. Now some of the callers are saying that the cats are gone or they haven’t seen them for a while.”

“Hmm.” Her mom poured smoothie from the blender into two glasses, placed a paper straw in one, and handed it over.

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