Heart of Dixie (Moreover #1) by Ruthie Henrick

Author:Ruthie Henrick [Henrick, Ruthie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780991416455
Amazon: 0991416457
Publisher: Ruthie Henrick
Published: 2016-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

The doors to the studio were open to draw in fresh air; ceiling fans buzzed as they circled slow and steady overhead. I pushed away from the broad table I used as a work desk and kneaded my fatigued eyes from under my glasses. I’d been at this project for hours today, weeks altogether, but the tweaks I needed for this new system weren’t coming together the way I hoped. The deadline for the project loomed, yet something in my calculations was off.

I leaned my head back—this crazy expensive ergonomic chair Shane insisted I buy was surprisingly comfortable—closed my eyes and let the design flow through my mind. The charts, the diagrams, all appeared then disappeared and rearranged as I searched for the missing link. The answer was there, somewhere close. I could feel it. What if—?

What if! The lightbulb flashed in my brain; I popped my eyes open and sprang forward in my seat. My fingers flew on the keyboard, pulled up a spreadsheet I hadn’t looked at in days. Hell, yes! There was my problem, and my answer, all rolled into one rookie error.

With a finger swipe, I slid that screen to the left side of the dual monitors and made the adjusting calcs, then opened CAD and made the modifications needed in the drawings there on the right-hand screen. Back and forth I went between the two, revising, assessing, testing, until at last, I uploaded the narrative document I’d been preparing since the project began and continued to write.

Some time later I saved my work and reached across the desk to flick on the lamp. Dusk had fallen while I was preoccupied, and the room had grown dim. I read back over my last few paragraphs, made a few minor edits and closed the file just as my cell phone rang beside me. Perfect timing! I picked it up and answered.

“Surprised to hear from you, Blake! I thought you and Donna had some important thing you were doing tonight.” He’d mentioned what it was, but that was yesterday, when my brain was so full of Dixie that my head was fuzzy and even my well thought-out lesson plans needed to be replaced with lame videos.

“Dude, you have to rescue me! I just found out this thing she wants to drag me to is a chick thing.” The panic in his voice would normally amuse me. Except tonight when that chick thing was over, all would be well over at Blake’s place with Donna cuddled up in his bed.

Dixie’s memory didn’t throw off much body heat.

“Come on, be a pal! Don’t you have a fence that needs mending? Maybe a wild boar we can flush out of the woods and hunt down? Something manly!”

Manly? The guy taught poetry for chrissake, and tonight he was worried about his balls? I mulled it over for a minute. “The best I can offer is a game of pool down at The Barn. Is that macho enough for you?”

“Perfect! I’m ready to go.

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