Hope Falls: Sweet Serendipity (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Jamie Farrell

Author:Jamie Farrell [Farrell, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Embarrassed wasn’t the right word.

Nor was mortified.

No, Wyatt wasn’t ashamed that he had feelings. Maybe ashamed he’d waited this long to admit them to her, but not that he had feelings.

But things had definitely been awkward all evening.

Hell, all week.

Even with Skye locked away in her room, reading or working or playing with her camera or whatever she was doing, the awkwardness permeated the entire house.

And the driveway.

Which he knew, because he sat in the car with the windows down for an hour, catching up on the news and any pressing emails from his boss while Nicholas slept. After the kid woke up, he fixed a frozen pizza for dinner. The mess in the kitchen said Skye had taken care of making herself a sandwich. Possibly she’d fed half the woodland creatures too, if the number of dishes that had magically appeared on the counters and in the sink was any indication.

And then he got a clue and let Nicholas pick a movie to watch in the living room after dinner.

He missed half the actual movie, because Nicholas liked to shout the dialogue he knew half a second before the character said it. If he could’ve found a way to make his nephew’s face light up the way the movie did, he would’ve changed their plans in a heartbeat.

He should’ve known Nicholas was allergic to bee stings. Or that heights made the boy nauseous. He’d assumed Nicholas was never outside because Amelia and Vince were raising the kid on electronics.

He hadn’t taken into consideration the possibility that the outside was truly dangerous for Nicholas. That he just wasn’t a sporty kid.

He’d done great on the hike. He’d gotten a little out of breath, but he’d pushed through it. And Skye had been fantastic with him. She’d squeezed his biceps and told him he was strong, that he’d grow up to be a real ladies’ man, that he probably got away with anything when he smiled at his mom like that.

While Wyatt had said, “Come on, bud. Keep up.” When what he really would’ve liked was for Skye to tell him he was irresistible and sexy and she was so glad they’d accidentally ended up out here in Hope Falls together.

He winced to himself.

Both because the chances of her appreciating him were about nil, and because he could suddenly see where Nicholas might not have appreciated his encouragement.

After the movie was over, Wyatt asked Nicholas if he wanted to go out for ice cream.

Because he needed to do something simply for fun. With this little boy who accepted him without question, who never pulled back when Wyatt tried to show him how to bait a hook or shoot a pool stick, and who would one day, too soon, take to rolling his eyes at all the little things that Wyatt appreciated most.

“Can Miss Skye come too?” Nicholas asked.

“Come where?” She popped up the stairs, her gaze swiftly passing by Wyatt to land on Nicholas.

“For ice cream,” Nicholas explained.

Her gaze flitted to Wyatt again, and then back to Nicholas.

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