The River House by Carla Neggers

Author:Carla Neggers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2018-01-23T14:46:21+00:00

Twelve

By six o’clock, the boot camp had wound down, and most of the attendees and speakers were on their way home. Felicity looked forward to handling future larger, more complex events out on Carriage Hill Road, but it felt great to have the inaugural boot camp behind her. She kicked off her shoes and sat out on the terrace at Olivia’s house with a glass of iced tea and a small plate of Maggie’s delectable hors d’oeuvres, leftover from the party. The cleaning crew had swooped in right on time and was doing their thing. Felicity would take a moment to catch her breath, then wrap up for the day. Olivia, Dylan, Noah, Phoebe, Maggie, Gabe and Russ were up at the barn, no doubt relaxing in their own way. Felicity had a feeling they would stay on for the evening to celebrate what had been a successful inaugural event.

She would go home, take a shower, have a glass of wine on the deck and head to bed early with a book.

And Gabe?

She drank some of her tea and listened to the bees in the mint. Gabe could do his Gabe thing. She didn’t need to be a part of his evening plans.

Her phone vibrated on the table with a text message. She glanced at the screen: How’d it go today?

Nadia.

Felicity groaned and didn’t touch her phone. She had no intention of responding. She didn’t want to encourage further contact, but she didn’t want to deal with Nadia right now, either, regardless of her intentions. Nadia was a professional with at least some experience with event planning. She wouldn’t expect an instant response.

But another text came in: Why don’t we share a bottle of wine to celebrate?

Not at the airport or boarding a flight to California, apparently.

Felicity snatched up her phone, but it had been a busy day, and she didn’t trust herself not to start typing a tart response. She put the phone back on the table and picked up her tea glass with both hands, hoping that would help her not to tell Nadia to leave her the hell alone.

If not for her iced tea and moment to relax, Felicity doubted she’d have noticed the texts immediately, anyway. She refused to let them ruin her quiet few minutes before she finished up for the day. She only had a few loose ends to tie up.

She popped a stuffed mushroom into her mouth from her small plate of leftover goodies. Having a caterer of Maggie’s caliber in town had made everything so much easier today, but she was clearly stretched thin with her husband out of town, two small boys, the inn, the goat’s milk products and her complicated family. Maggie thrived on having a lot of irons in the fire, but everyone had limits.

As if Felicity’s thoughts had conjured them, Maggie’s two young sons scrambled over the stone wall, bypassing the gap, and ran up a mulched path through the garden, apparently in the middle of a game that involved a chase.

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