Carla Neggers Swift River Valley Series Volume 1 by Carla Neggers

Author:Carla Neggers [Neggers, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488026652
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Phoebe had said goodnight to the last of a summer reading group that had met while she and the fashion show committee had gone over the last details of what promised to be a fun night. How profitable it would be was anyone’s guess but at least they were managing to keep costs down.

She was tidying up the circulation desk, about ready to lock up and head home, when she heard the front door creak. She was surprised to see Noah enter the library. He moved with his usual smoothness, and he wore jeans and a black button-down shirt, his sleeves rolled up. She smiled to herself. He was even sexier than he’d been in his black cape and mask.

He pointed toward the children’s section. “I’ll just be in here while you finish up,” he said, then stepped into the empty alcove.

Phoebe stifled images of him as a five-year-old—then as a father, taking his children to the library. But would he? Had he ever gone to the library himself as a boy, picked out books, sat with other kids through a story hour? With her evening meeting, she’d had a long day and had spent much of it—even while picking mint with him at Carriage Hill—thinking about how little she really knew about Noah Kendrick.

Being a librarian, she’d searched out more information on him that afternoon, beyond what Vera had read at the hairdresser’s or what everyone in town already knew since Dylan’s arrival there in the spring. Phoebe had a few more facts at her fingertips. Noah was thirty-three, the only child of a structural engineer and a high-school chemistry teacher, both retired and living at their wealthy son’s California Central Coast winery.

In addition to the winery, Noah owned a house in San Diego and a condo in Hawaii, and he collected antique swords.

He’d sailed through MIT. No surprise there.

Phoebe thought of her avocado-colored refrigerator and her flea-market finds.

A different world.

The women in Noah’s life tended to be very attractive actresses, with or without talent.

Talent, Phoebe suspected, wasn’t that big an issue to him.

She glanced at her watch as if she had somewhere else she needed to be, but she didn’t. And as Noah left the children’s section and returned to the main room, book in hand, she realized she didn’t want to be anywhere else.

“You read The Tale of Peter Rabbit to the kids?” he asked her.

She nodded. “They enjoyed it. It’s hard not to identify with Peter.”

“He drinks chamomile tea at the end.” He smiled that enigmatic smile she’d noticed straight off at the masquerade in Boston. “You and Olivia and your sisters must love chamomile tea.”

“Especially with lemon,” Phoebe said with a laugh.

“That Peter is a risk taker. Not all his risks work out that well, but his life is more exciting because he takes a few chances. At least he ends up with some great stories to tell.” Noah set the book on the circulation desk. “Okay if I leave it here? My mind was elsewhere and I don’t remember which shelf it was on.

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