Whispering Rock by Robyn Carr

Author:Robyn Carr
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Azizex666, General
ISBN: 9781440737824
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2007-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Paul Haggerty would help Jack anytime he could—that went without saying. It being a profitable venture for him as well made it even more palatable. But when he got right down to it, the deal maker was the fact that Vanessa was now residing in Virgin River.

He found six men who were ready to sign on immediately, so he had a contract drawn up for Jack and faxed it to the bar. Next he leased a large mobile home and had it delivered to the homesite, along with a portable toilet and commercial Dumpster for the grounds. His crew could drive down and sleep in the trailer during the week, going home weekends if they so chose. He’d haul his own small trailer for himself. He’d change out and add crews as progress was made on the house. Jack would have to double as a foreman because Paul couldn’t stay in Virgin River all the time. He was leaving his dad and two brothers to run their construction company while he took on this project and he’d have to spend some time back in Grants Pass trying to pull his own weight.

While the structure was being completed, Paul would scout around the area for painters, carpet layers, tilers, paperhangers, cabinetmakers. Jack would have no trouble having light and plumbing fixtures and appliances installed, once Mel chose them. The house had been started last spring and great progress had been made, but alone, it would take Jack another year. Together, with crews, they might be able to finish it in a few months. If the weather didn’t hamper them too much, by early spring at least.

And during that time he would see Vanessa. The idea threatened to give him hives. He loved being around her, went nuts with her effervescence and buoyancy. The problem was that he found her just as sexy and distracting pregnant as he had that very first night Matt put the moves on her. He wondered if he was just setting himself up for a lot of long, troubling nights of thinking about her and feeling sorry for himself because he would never, under pain of death, touch his friend’s woman. He felt guilty that he even wanted to.

But this would be his secret, that he desired her, worshipped her. And while Matt was at war, Paul would look in on her from time to time, be sure she was holding up. He and Matt were like brothers. They had gone to the same Oregon high school, had a couple of years of college together, joined up and went into the Corps together. But Matt was the one who was confident with the girls, while Paul had always been the reluctant one, a little shy. It was hard for him to make that first move; he’d always had to think it through for a long time before he could work up to approaching a woman. He’d overcome a lot of that by now, but not enough. He’d never have the speed, finesse and confidence of his best friend.

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