The Country Cottage: A Prairie Creek Romance (Prairie Creek Sweet Romances Book 1) by Elizabeth Bromke

Author:Elizabeth Bromke [Bromke, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16—Kelly

Kelly sat with a thud and hooked her pointer finger to the syrup, her preference. “I can’t tell you why I’m here. Not if you don’t already know, Logan.”

He pushed aside his coffee and folded his arms. Each time he did this, she couldn’t help but notice once again how different Logan was than Kyle. Not that Kyle didn’t lock his arms across his chest—it was a common enough thing for a person to do. Hah. But because of the little things about Logan. His red flannel shirt, only slightly different from yesterday’s—or was it? The sleeves pushed up without a care for detail. His forearms thick and sinewy in muscles that only certain men used. The kind of men who swung power tools around and climbed rafters and balanced on ladders. The kind that Kelly was used to seeing on her sets and at her project sites, but then…there was something else. Logan wasn’t only muscle and bunched shirt sleeves. He was soft, too.

“I don’t understand, Kelly. Why can’t you tell me? I mean, I know we don’t know each other, but everyone has a past. That’s what this is about, right? Something from your past?”

Kelly closed her eyes. She wished this whole thing were in the past. Or that the public’s discovery of it was in the past.

“It’s just—I don’t know.” She stabbed a square tower of pancakes with her fork and shoved it into her mouth, relishing the sweet, buttery flavor, the soft texture, the everything-ness of actually getting to eat down-home food rather than just prepare it for a camera and promptly schlep it over to the production crew. She swallowed and took a long gulp of coffee. Logan continued to watch her and wait. She raised her hands up and pushed away the rest of the plate of pancakes and returned Logan’s stare. “Okay, here’s what I can say. ‘I was doing great. Then, something happened. Your teacher, Mrs. Hayfield, was involved in a peripheral way. The public blamed me, and when the public blames a media figure for something in this day and age, it doesn’t just go away. They get canceled. The only way to recover from such a fate is to go away and repent, then come back and make up for it all. So, that’s why I’m here.’ Satisfied?”

He pushed the plate of pancakes back to her and dove into his own, but then he shook his head. “I still don’t know what ol’ Mrs. Hayfield has to do with it all, but I’m getting closer. I mean…she is dead.” Then he looked up, a jeering smile on his face and a glint in his eye. “Did you murder her?”

In spite of herself, Kelly laughed. A full-bellied laugh that drew her hands to her face, which had absolutely flushed bright red and not because she had murdered Mrs. Hayfield. “No!” she protested before slapping her hand over the table and toward him. Why was this so easy? With Logan, a

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