The Forgotten Debutante by Becky Lower

Author:Becky Lower [Lower, Becky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2016-04-03T18:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Saffron kept telling herself she wasn’t worried when Zeke didn’t return to DC right away from his trip home, even if she did find herself tapping her feet while she waited as each long hour dragged by. Anything could have happened to delay him by a few days or even a week. She had jumped back into her workday, logging in the letters coming to the Reburial Program from all parts of the country and then filing them into the appropriate folders. When the time came to retrieve the bodies, Saffron and the others in her department would have everyone organized, and the work would proceed smoothly.

She tossed and turned each night, losing sleep as she came up with one wild scenario after the other as to what had caused his delay when Zeke didn’t return the second week of the new year. She didn’t believe he’d stay on the farm and not come back, despite Grace’s notions. At least not without telling her what he was doing. He was as smitten with her as she was with him—of that much she was certain—and she hadn’t slaved over pie dough during her holiday for nothing. She had plans to marry him. So where was he? She bit her lip as she pondered the question.

Finally, at the end of the second week of January, he walked into the office. Saffron’s heart nearly jumped out of her chest when his familiar voice rang out down the hall as he greeted the others. Although she longed to rush down the hall and propel herself into his arms, she had to remind herself she was angry with him for his tardiness. And she had to remind herself to play hard to get. He’d need to work hard for the second kiss he had been asking for. His first kiss had been the stuff of her dreams for three years now. The second one had to be every bit as monumental.

Even though her body strained toward him, especially when he called out a greeting to Suzanne, she held back. A kiss in front of a crowd of coworkers would not be nearly monumental enough, even if it would put Suzanne in her place. He finally entered the small office they shared, and she glanced up from the folder she’d been holding onto.

“Welcome back, Zeke. I wondered if you were gone for good.” Saffron was pleased her voice came out in a well-modulated tone. If there was a slight quaver, she hoped she was the only one who noticed.

He set his hat on the desk—their desk. Then he stared at her, his bottle-green eyes all-consuming. It was almost as if he were dying of thirst and only she could provide him the life-giving water he needed. Well, after all the worry he’d caused her over the past two weeks, he could be parched a bit longer. She’d remain unaffected in his presence and not go soft and gooey. Even as she scolded herself, she could not break eye contact with him.

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