Innis Harbor by Patricia Evans Cox

Author:Patricia Evans Cox
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781948232746
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing
Published: 2019-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

Loch rolled her eyes as she sifted through the closet for her navy cashmere crewneck, balancing the phone between her cheek and shoulder. Amir was picking her up for dinner with her parents in ten minutes, and all she’d managed to put on was a pair of white jeans.

“Harvey,” she said, struggling to keep her voice even. “You signed me at fifteen, and I’ve been working every day since. I need some time.”

“Loch, you can’t just take a year off in this business, you know that.” Loch listened to him take a slow breath and choose his words. “If you put your career on a shelf, it’ll stay there. I’ve seen it happen.”

“I know it’s a risk.” Loch pulled the missing navy sweater out from the bottom of a stack that threatened to tumble without it. “But I can’t keep doing this.”

“I can get you out of what you have booked at this point, but let’s give it some time and revisit this, okay?” Harvey paused. “You’ve never been more in demand than you are right now, and at this point, you have the freedom to take your career in a whole different direction if you want to. You don’t want to lose that.”

Loch pulled the sweater over her head and rubbed her temples slowly before she answered. “Okay.”

“Just get some rest, and I’ll call you in a few weeks.”

The phone clicked off just as Amir knocked on the front door. Loch ran a hand through her hair, took a last look in the mirror, and slipped into the shoes she was carrying as she opened the door. Amir stepped in and immediately picked her up, wrapping Loch’s legs around her waist. She held her against the door as she ran her tongue slowly down the side of her neck, pulling away with a soft bite on her shoulder.

“Can’t we just skip this and stay in bed?”

Loch laughed as Amir put her down and glanced back to the bedroom for emphasis. Loch just handed her a dish from the side table as she grabbed her keys and jacket, pulling the door shut behind them.

“What’s this?”

“It’s saffron and rosewater cookies,” Loch said. “I made them for your mother.”

Amir looked at the beautiful antique dish with the glass top. The cookies were a perfect warm pink, and rose petals crusted with sugar had been scattered on the top. She leaned in and kissed Loch’s cheek as she spoke. “How in the world did you know how to make these?”

“I didn’t,” she said. “When you dropped me off this morning, I did some research, then took the recipe to that restaurant in Bar Harbor and asked the ladies there what I needed. One of them gave me a little glass jar of homemade rosewater to use. But when I tried to pay, they wouldn’t let me.”

“I’m sure they recognized you,” Amir said, taking her hand as they started toward her truck. “You’re kind of hard to forget.”

“I don’t know.” Loch bit her lip as she thought back to the day Amir had taken her to the restaurant.

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