Hidden Falls by Newport Olivia;

Author:Newport, Olivia; [Newport, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4635237
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

9:56 a.m.

Nicole rolled across the living room to answer the knock on the door. Ethan stood there in jeans and a sweatshirt.

“I thought you were never going to get here.” Nicole shoved herself away from the door.

“Good morning.” Ethan closed the door.

Nicole braced for a scolding about being out of the recliner and skipped mentioning that the door hadn’t been locked. “Don’t get comfortable. We have to go out.”

“Didn’t last night’s adventure satisfy your wanderlust?” Ethan dropped his keys in a pocket.

“Don’t put your keys away,” she said. “I want to go see that new attorney, Jack Parker.”

“Never heard of him.”

“He’s just over in the next block. He bought out Morris and Morris.” One phone call to Benita Booker had caught Nicole up on what the town knew about its newest attorney. “Just give me a minute to find what Lauren did with my running shoe.”

Ethan stepped into her path and caught the chair. “Can we slow down a little bit?”

“I’ve already lost two days.” Nicole tried to roll back, but Ethan gripped both sides of the chair’s seat, stooping to put his face level with hers. For a few seconds, she stared into his wide brown eyes and felt his exhaling breath on her neck. Neither of them spoke.

“I’m sure you have a good reason to see Mr. Parker,” Ethan said, “but let’s get on the same page.”

“Sorry.” She sucked in a filling breath and let it out with considerable control. “First of all, I’m really glad you’re here—in Hidden Falls, I mean. I thought maybe you’d left for Columbus.”

“I would have told you.” He released his hold on her chair and sat on the sofa, stumbling over her shoe in the process.

Nicole caught the shoe when he tossed it and bent over to put it on, avoiding Ethan’s eyes. “Second, I’ve been staring out that window feeling afraid I’ve missed my chance to tell Quinn how grateful I am and apologize for taking him for granted all these years.”

“He knows how you feel about him—how we both do.”

“I suppose,” Nicole said, “but that doesn’t excuse me from saying thank you. My parents brought me up better than that.” And so did yours, she wanted to add but didn’t.

“I want him to know,” Nicole said. “He gave so much love. I want him to know it wasn’t wasted.”

“Love is never wasted,” Ethan said.

Nicole looked at Ethan now, straining against the lump in her throat. Even after he walked away from her ten years ago, she never felt her love had been wasted.

She broke the gaze. “I still can’t get Quinn’s computer to power up properly.”

“I have good news on that.”

Ethan leaned back and laid an ankle on the opposite knee, as if he were planning to settle in. Nicole bit back on prodding him to get out the door and instead gave him the most expectant look she could muster.

“Dani’s coming this afternoon.”

Nicole’s stomach flipped. “You told someone we have the computer?”

“I didn’t think you’d want to take it back to Quinn’s after what we went through to get it.

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