The Cottages on Silver Beach by RaeAnne Thayne

Author:RaeAnne Thayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2018-04-09T20:03:49+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

TURNED OUT, THEY didn’t need an app or any other kind of conversational help. They did fine on their own.

They talked about movies they liked, their favorite ice cream flavors, places she dreamed of visiting and about some of the challenges she found in running the inn. She did ask about some of the cases he had written about, though she didn’t consider that technically breaking their agreement, since she wasn’t discussing his current book.

After their rocky start, the evening turned out to be thoroughly enjoyable.

At the end of the meal, Megan set down her spoon and wiped the corners of her mouth with her napkin, fighting the urge to lick clean the bowl of her fruit-bedecked crème brûlée. “I’m just going to come out and say it. That was the most delicious dinner I’ve had in years.”

“An excellent choice,” he agreed. “Everything was pitch-perfect. You’ll have to tell Mary Ella tomorrow how delicious we both found her daughter’s restaurant.”

“I will.”

It had been an exhausting day, with the long journey and then their time at the art gallery and dinner, yet she found she didn’t want the evening to end.

When he put his mind to it, Elliot could be every bit as charming as Wyatt had been. More, maybe, if she were honest.

Wyatt had been like a puppy, happy all the time, eager for attention and constantly in search of the next entertainment. She had so desperately needed that at the time, just months after her grandmother’s death when she was reeling from the loss and from the sudden responsibility of inheriting the inn.

It had been a terribly hard time and she had felt so alone. Luke had been too busy with the contracting business he had started and with his new wife and their new baby to be much help.

She hadn’t wanted to run an inn. That had never been her dream. Too much of her high school years had been spent making beds or working the front desk. Beyond that, after an internship at a Boise-area travel magazine, she had just been offered a job as assistant to a National Geographic photographer. All her dreams had been about to come true—and then Gran got sick and she had come home to care for her and had felt stuck.

Wyatt had suddenly tumbled into that tough, joyless world, exactly when she needed him.

He had been sweet and kind and funny, the perfect antidote to her grim circumstances. Then, just as her feelings had started to deepen, Wyatt had died on a lonely stretch of snowy highway while doing what he loved best: helping other people.

Elliot was very different from his brother. More serious and introspective, less impulsive and rash, yet still inherently kind.

If she was not very careful, Megan was afraid she would find it entirely too easy to lose her heart to him.

No. She couldn’t let that happen. All she could see ahead on that path was heartbreak and pain.

Besides. She had her future mapped out and it didn’t include a sexy FBI agent.

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