The Little Cafe at Clover Cove: a heartwarming romance series set on the beautiful west coast of Ireland by Maggie Finn

Author:Maggie Finn [Finn, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, romance
ISBN: 9781911297154
Publisher: Eleven Press
Published: 2019-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Molly looked at the pile of clothes on her bed and despaired. She had tried on everything in her admittedly small wardrobe and everything made her look too fat, too twee or too, well, sexy. Not that there was much in the latter category, given that ‘going out clothes’ in Kiln County consisted of a checked shirt or any skirt above the knee. And maybe – if you were feeling daring – some earrings. Molly had one sparkly blue cocktail dress and a little black thing that clung to her curves, both from her days in Dublin; but even then, they hadn’t had much air-time. Nights out from restaurant kitchens tended to be spontaneous things very late after work when no one cared how you were dressed. Besides, Molly didn’t want to look too nice. It wasn’t like this was a date date. But still…

She rummaged through the pile and came out with a pencil skirt and a white blouse. Together they looked business-like and respectable, but at the same time, well, some men found the secretary look sexy, didn’t they? She pulled them on and looked at herself in the mirror. It’d have to do. Wouldn’t want him to get the wrong idea, anyway.

She walked down the narrow stairs into the kitchen.

What was the wrong idea, anyway? Sean – so strange to know his name after all this time thinking about him as ‘the surfer’ – was nice and all; okay, so he was pretty hot with his cheekbones and his floppy surf-hair, but she didn’t know anything about him. Where was he from? And top of the list of things Molly didn’t know about Sean O’Hea was whether he was interested in her. Perhaps he was just a good guy, the kind who genuinely likes helping strangers. After all, in three meetings, he’d mended her foot, offered to help with her accounts and rescued her from a potentially fatal traffic accident. And now he was coming over to help her with her ‘branding’, whatever that was. Didn’t that suggest more than mere kindness?

‘Ach, Molly,’ she scolded her reflection in the microwave, ‘But you’ve no time for such nonsense.’

That much was true. If she stood any chance of saving the café, she needed tunnel vision, to concentrate on one thing: making a huge success of the business.

Molly looked around the café and felt a sinking in her heart. ‘A huge success’. So easy to say, but not so simple to pull off. Sean clearly meant well – so did Raff and Ryan all the other villagers who had pledged their assistance – but was it even possible? And if she made enough to keep the wolf – or the bailiffs – from the door for the next month, could she keep it going? Molly genuinely wasn’t sure.

Even her natural positivity couldn’t change that big pile of zeros on the wrong side of the balance sheet.

Just then there was a knock at the door.

‘Sean?’ she whispered. ‘It can’t be.’ She looked at the clock and gave a start.

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