A Vineyard Wedding by Katie Winters

Author:Katie Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: women's fiction, small town beach fiction, sisters fiction, family fiction, clean & wholesome fiction
Publisher: Katie Winters
Published: 2021-05-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

That week, it was decided that they needed to hire another lawyer to maintain the Sheridan Law Office while Susan spent so much time in Boston. They had received a tip from a friend that an islander who’d spent the previous decades in Boston had returned in the wake of his wife’s death and was hungry to work for a law firm again. “Apparently, he’s fantastic, but he came to the island to live a quieter life, closer to his family,” Amanda said as she read through his referrals and his resume again.

Bruce Holland stepped into the Sheridan Law Office Monday afternoon. He was a hunk of a man — even Susan had to admit it — perhaps six foot four, broad-shouldered, with a smile that looked borderline arrogant. Amanda’s eyes were buggy as she trailed after him and into Susan’s office for the interview. Within the hour, she’d hired him. Bruce Holland wasn’t the type of guy you didn’t hire.

With Bruce around, Susan could pass off a few other cases and give herself more space to head off to Boston. She was gone by two in the afternoon — speeding up from Woods Hole all the way back to that beautiful city and the girl within it, Marcie Shean. As she clutched the steering wheel, she tried to imagine what it had been like for Marcie Shean, as she’d sprung off the island of Martha’s Vineyard and into the rest of her future. What had she dreamed of on that fateful day? Had she had dreams, desires that extended beyond the love she’d found? Had she been hunting for something in particular?

Certainly, she hadn’t planned for this.

Susan checked herself back into the same hotel room and arranged the room just so. She texted Amanda throughout to tell her that she was “really going to miss her,” but “thank you for holding down the fort and showing Bruce the ropes.”

AMANDA: Weird to have such masculine energy in the office!

AMANDA: Dad is going to be so jealous when he sees a photo of this guy.

SUSAN: You know I only have eyes for one man on this earth.

SUSAN: But Bruce is great! I’m so glad to have him on the team. He has that intimidating, brooding voice like Don Draper in Mad Men.

After Susan set up her hotel room, she again drove over to the burger place. She was hungry — aching for it, actually, but she also craved a conversation with that bartender again. She had a hunch he would remember her, as it had only been a few days. When she slipped onto the stool, he snapped his fingers and said, “Hey! You again. Can I grab you an iced tea? A beer?”

“An IPA today, please,” she said. Was he flirting with her? He was definitely at least ten years younger than her. The thought of it thrilled her just the slightest bit.

“And a bacon-cheeseburger?”

“I think I’ll go with a veggie burger today,” Susan replied with a grin.

“Heart health. I appreciate that,” he said.

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