That Chesapeake Summer (Chesapeake Diaries Book 9) by Stewart Mariah

Author:Stewart, Mariah [Stewart, Mariah]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2015-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

DAN stood at the railing that wrapped around the crow’s nest, his private sanctuary at the very top of the inn, and watched the moon spread pale light across the bay. It was a perfect night, a perfectly beautiful and romantic night, and yet here he stood alone, an unopened bottle of beer in his hand from MadMac, the craft brewery owned by his brother-in-law Clay Madison and Clay’s partner, Wade MacGregor. He was thinking about Jamie and how good it had felt to hold her while they danced. But something about her was off. She was hiding something, and the last thing he needed in his life was another woman who kept secrets.

He couldn’t figure out why his mother, who was normally so astute about such things, didn’t seem to see it at all. Why, she and Jamie were as chummy as could be. Not only were they suddenly BFFs, Jamie was working with Grace on that pet project of hers. So what exactly was making Dan suspicious?

For starters, who in her right mind would volunteer to spend hours going through dusty old newspapers if she wasn’t hoping to find something, some bit of information that would lead . . . where?

Then there was that business of her pretending not to know anything about the historical society when he knew for a fact that she’d been there. Why do that?

And what was she looking for in old high school yearbooks? Four of them, Hunter had said. The kid was goofy, but he wasn’t blind, and he could read.

It all added up to her looking for something—or someone—in St. Dennis. So her story about finding St. Dennis randomly and thinking it looked like a nice place for a vacation, or whatever it was she claimed, clearly was a crock.

If he were to be honest with himself, he’d admit it was eating at him that he liked her in spite of it all.

As for tonight, he couldn’t explain the way he’d felt when he held her, or that urge to kiss her. Lucky he backed away when he did. Who knew where that could have led?

And then there was his mother, sitting there with that enigmatic smile on her face, the smile he’d seen many times before. That look that said she knew things other mere mortals didn’t.

So why was she so blind to the fact that Jamie was, if not actually up to something, hiding something? Unless, of course, Grace wasn’t blind at all. Unless Grace, too, was hiding something.

He tucked the bottle under his arm and headed for the deck chair overlooking the inn’s grounds, where he’d drink a beer or two and try to forget what it had felt like to look into those electric blue eyes and to hold that perfect body in his arms.

JAMIE ARRIVED AT Grace’s office minutes after Grace.

“Lovely wedding last night,” Grace said.

“It was. The room looked beautiful.”

“Lucy has always loved parties with themes. I suppose that’s what makes her so good at what she does.

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