The Tea Shop by Bernadette Marie

Author:Bernadette Marie [Marie, Bernadette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63112-213-2
Publisher: 5 Prince Publishing

Chapter 25

Carson sat at his desk, as he had most of the week, looking at the blueprints for the Ford Street church project. He couldn't get Mrs. Winters' words out of his head. What had she meant to go ahead, and Abigail would understand?

They'd been living together for the past week, though not formally. They hadn't moved into one location, but they'd eaten dinner together and slept in the same bed each night. In the course of talking about work, they'd talked about his projects, but Abigail hadn't forced her opinion on him about the building at all. She listened, then steered the conversation to something else, but she didn't fight him or suggest anything to him.

Was Mrs. Winters trying to tell him that he should just keep working on the project, that Abigail had stopped caring?

He didn't believe that either.

But he'd wanted to change it, just a bit. Carson had been working on keeping the footprint of the church intact. He'd even had the architect working on it, but it was going to cost more, since the building was in bad shape.

He was concentrating so hard that he didn't notice anyone in his doorway until he heard them clear their throat.

Carson lifted his head to see Abigail standing there with her hip against the doorjamb and a bottle of wine in her hand.

"What are you doing?" Carson smiled as he leaned back in his chair.

"I came to see if you could leave early for the day. I just received this gift from my parents, along with a very nice picnic basket."

"What's the occasion?" He asked as she sauntered to his desk, and skirted around it to stand in front of him.

"Six month anniversary of the tea shop."

She stood in front of him, and he raised his hands to her hips. "Six months, huh? Amazing how successful you can be in half a year."

Abigail smiled. "I didn't know all of this would happen when I moved here. I guess deep down inside I knew that the store would be a success, but I had no idea it would bring me you."

Carson stood so that he could look her in the eye. "I'm so glad you came here with your dreams. Mrs. Winters would say it was fate."

"I think it was," she said as she lifted to her toes and kissed him gently. "Can you leave?"

Carson looked at the plans on his desk and thought about the proposal he needed to write up. "Sure. You don't celebrate successes like this every day. Let me clear off my desk."

Abigail turned around and looked down at the blueprints. "The church?"

"Yes."

He watched as she studied it. Did she know what she was looking at? Did it all make sense?

"There's a lot of planning that goes into this," she noted.

He waited for a comment, but she didn't say a word. "Where should we go to celebrate?" he asked, which had her turning back to him.

"My house has a living room and a couch where we could kick up our feet.

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