Then There Was You by Miranda Liasson

Author:Miranda Liasson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

“I want cotton candy,” Sara’s five-year-old niece Julia said as they walked across the green in the middle of downtown, where everyone was setting up chairs and spreading blankets for the Fourth of July fireworks. It was nine thirty, the horizon still glowing with a rim of deep indigo where the sun had just set. “Can we get some, Aunt Sara? Please?”

“Of course we can,” Sara said, eager to finally get the opportunity to spoil Julia and her three-year-old brother Michael. Gabby, minus Malcolm, who was working, was holding Michael’s hand as they walked across the grass. Kaitlyn brought up the back of their little group, carrying a giant waterproof blanket. She’d decided at the last minute to tag along instead of staying home and fretting about her breakup, which Sara thought was a positive thing. Sara was hoping to find some time to really talk to her about it, because so far she’d been avoiding the topic.

“How about here, ladies? And boy,” Sara said, bending to plant a kiss on the top of her nephew’s sweet blond head. She’d found an empty space in the middle of the green, which was dotted with a veritable patchwork quilt of multicolored blankets, each occupied by a little cluster of family or friends.

She loved the town’s Fourth of July celebrations. The parade, the picnics, the fireworks—yet today she couldn’t help but feel that something—someone—was missing. Every dark-haired, broad-shouldered guy who walked with a noticeably confident stride made her think of Colton.

She hadn’t heard from him since last night, which was hardly cause for alarm, but she knew deep down that he wasn’t going to call or text her. She’d given him a message, and he’d gotten it, loud and clear.

In her mind she kept seeing the expression on his face when she’d handed him that pie. He’d seemed truly touched.

She’d be out of her mind to even consider getting involved with him. As far as she knew, he’d never had a girlfriend for longer than a lunar cycle. It would be crazy to think that someone like her, Sara Jane the Brain, could break that streak.

He’d always been the cocky, too-handsome boy who was completely out of her league. Yet she didn’t feel like that nerdy high school girl around him anymore. When he looked at her, she felt the absolute heat of his gaze. The way his eyes lingered on her told her he wanted her. The way he’d kissed her, so suddenly and unexpectedly, had taken her completely by surprise, but the way they’d fit together, and the heat of their kisses, wild and unrestrained, told her a lot more could’ve happened between them if she hadn’t put on the brakes.

Not that she’d kissed a lot of guys, but she knew what it was like to have a kiss travel south so fast it made your toes curl. And heat up other places along the way.

“Here come Colton and Rafe,” Gabby said, and Sara almost choked on the lemonade she was sipping.

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