A Home for the Firefighter by Amie Denman

Author:Amie Denman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-09T20:14:36+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

THE NEXT MORNING, Kate got up early even though she had been out late. It didn’t have to be so late. She didn’t have to take a walk on the beach and have a glass of wine with Brady at a beachfront bar after they had finished their scavenger hunt just before ten. She and Brady had checked off every item on the list, making sure to document their progress with numerous selfies on her phone. At the end of the summer, when she would leave for Florida, Kate would take with her at least twenty pictures of herself and Brady. They had used her phone each time with the intention of making it easy for one person to upload the results to the employee app. Kate was the more tech-savvy of the two, and she was happy to volunteer to be the keeper of the pictures.

Not that there was any other reason she wanted them. Her time with Brady was brief and sweet, like summer itself. She scrolled through the twenty pictures as she waited for her bagel to pop up. In one of them, she had her eyes closed. Brady had his eyes closed in another one. And a third picture had caught them both in an unprepared moment. She had a look of concentration on her face, but Brady was staring at her in the picture with an expression that was... She enlarged his face on her phone’s screen. What was that look? Admiration? Friendship?

She didn’t want to put a name on Brady’s expression because it looked as if it went two steps beyond friendship and skipped right straight to something much deeper. He’d asked her to send him some of the pictures, and she would. But not that one.

A text pinged onto her phone.

Did we win?

Kate smiled.

I uploaded all our evidence, but no results yet. One hour to go.

See you there.

Although the pictures were turned in, participants in the scavenger hunt had to show up at eight and turn in the physical evidence of their success. Both parties had to be there, and Brady had traded part of a shift at the fire station to make sure he was available. Kate had felt bad asking him to do that, but he said he didn’t mind owing someone a favor, especially if it meant a chance at a big win in the game. He’d also added he was happy to spend more time with her, but she hadn’t responded to that. Would she sacrifice work time for him? She’d already refused to do that several times, and she needed to remember her priorities no matter how much fun it was to be with Brady.

Her future belonged to her.

Kate pulled into the office lot and parked next to Brady’s truck. She hoped she’d see Holly’s car. Her roommate hadn’t come home the night before, and Kate wasn’t sure what to conclude about it. Had she spent all night on the scavenger hunt with Tom? There had been

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