The Inn at Blue Hollow Falls by Kauffman Donna

Author:Kauffman, Donna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Night had fallen, and the snow was still coming down by the time Noah found her in the second-floor library. Stevie knew it had turned out to be a hectic day for him, with the cobbled-together brunch barely over before he had to start dinner prep. The girls had pitched in with both dining room and maid service while she’d helped him in the kitchen, which they’d managed to keep smoke and fire free. She’d enjoyed the time with him; they’d talked about everything from their favorite sports teams and how best to locally source a wide range of menu ingredients, to the best ways to propagate rare orchids and whether or not she could be persuaded to bake some of Granny May’s famous sweet potato pie for Christmas Eve dinner. She’d bragged that it was, hands down, better than pumpkin pie any day of the week.

She’d left that last request hanging in hopes he’d use other persuasion tactics when they both weren’t elbow deep in meal prep and he wasn’t being called upon to tend to any one of a dozen or more guest needs or requests.

In all fairness, the guests as a whole had done quite well entertaining themselves with the games and movies, but even so, she’d discovered that running an inn meant there was a steady stream of work to be done. Stevie thought it was a wonder he didn’t collapse in bed, half comatose every night. Dinner was over now, and Melanie and Jenny were the assigned dishwashers while Noah ran inventory and plotted out the meals for the next two days. Stevie had offered to play cruise director with the guests who were still socializing downstairs, but had managed to sneak up to the library thirty minutes ago when Tom Beatty had settled himself at the old piano in the parlor and started an impromptu Christmas carol sing-along.

She’d discovered earlier while helping Jenny with the rooms that she could get cell signal in this tower room and had finally gotten a text out to Sunny to see how things were progressing up at Addie’s place. It didn’t seem possible, but, according to Sawyer, they were getting even more snow up there. Fortunately, one of Sawyer’s friends had snowmobiled out to the greenhouse earlier that afternoon and started up the generators, just in case. Sunny had been more concerned about the weight of the snow on the greenhouse dome, but Sawyer had assured both of them that, with the wind as it was, most of it would blow off.

With that news, Stevie had set aside her worries for the night, hoping tomorrow would bring sunny skies and snowplows, and had thought she might curl up with a book for an hour or so before going down to help Noah set out the continental breakfast items that could be put out the night before. Instead she’d found herself nodding off before making it halfway through the first chapter. It wasn’t even seven thirty, and she’d only played sous chef.

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