The Little Bookshop of Promises by Debbie Macomber

Author:Debbie Macomber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1999-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Sheriff Adam Jordan’s days off usually fell in the middle of the week. He’d developed a habit of checking the movie schedules every Wednesday. If something new was playing that he particularly wanted to see, he often went to the early-evening show.

He wasn’t as interested in this week’s movie, a comedy starring Jim Carrey, as he was in a couple of hours’ distraction. He was still thinking about the previous Saturday and how shocked he’d been when Jeannie French invited him to dance. Okay, she’d had a reason. She’d wanted to thank him for replacing the blouse, but she needn’t have asked him to dance to do that.

Adam wasn’t all that fond of dancing, but he made a point of partnering as many women as he could for a spin around the floor. It was either that or spend the entire evening ogling Jeannie. He’d never seen her look more beautiful. Apparently it was his lot in life to get stuck on a woman who wanted nothing to do with him.

He’d seen her dance once with Billy Joe Durkin and nearly suffered a heart attack. Billy Joe was a ladies’ man, and if ever a woman was capable of capturing a cowboy’s attention, it was Jeannie. She’d danced with a few other men, too, and it was damned difficult to stand back and watch. Since that night all he’d done was think of Jeannie. He needed a distraction, so an afternoon at the movies suited him just fine.

Ticket in hand, Adam purchased a bag of buttered popcorn and a tall drink, then headed into the air-conditioned theater. The nice thing about catching the first show of the night was how empty the theater was. Many times there was only a handful of people.

Carrying his snacks, Adam discovered the theater completely unoccupied. A few more patrons would arrive in short order, they always did, but by then he’d have his choice of seats. That was the good news. The bad news was he’d prefer to share a movie with someone. But most of his friends didn’t have the same days off. And if they went to a weekday showing, it was usually the later one, well after dinner.

Adam had settled in his seat when the doors opened and a second person entered. A woman, he noted absently, taking a sip of his drink. Not until she walked past him did Adam recognize Jeannie.

“Jeannie,” he said aloud, then wished he hadn’t. So much for playing it cool. So much for acting nonchalant. Blurting out her name in a surge of sheer joy wasn’t going to impress a woman who’d made her views on dating him extremely clear. Painfully clear.

“Hello, Adam,” she said, looking equally delighted to see him. That was a switch.

Rather than say anything else that would embarrass them both, he stuffed a handful of popcorn in his mouth, then wiped his greasy palm down his thigh. When no one immediately joined her, he glanced over his shoulder, finding it difficult to believe she was alone.

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