Love Finds You in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California by Bricker Sandra D

Author:Bricker, Sandra D. [Bricker, Sandra D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1609360273
Publisher: Summerside Press
Published: 2010-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

Rather than heading straight back to the office, Annie popped in on Zoey first, confident that her close encounter with Doris Day would bring at least a giggle or two. When she arrived at the house, she saw Zoey through the slatted window of her office, on the telephone and massaging her forehead.

Walking around to the front door, Annie tried the knob. Surprised when it slipped open, she let herself in.

“Yes,” she heard Zoey state as Annie made her way down the hallway. “I’m well aware of that, Bobby, and we’ll have it to you before the end of the week. Okay. Yes, okay.”

Zoey hung up the phone and leaned back hard into the chair with her eyes tightly closed.

“Zo?”

She jumped to her feet, startled. “Annie! Don’t scare me like that.”

“I’m sorry. I saw that you were tied up, so I let myself in.”

“Oh.” Zoey slumped down into the chair again with a sigh. “I don’t have time for lunch today.”

“I’m not here for lunch. I just stopped by to chat.”

The phone rang, and Zoey pursed her lips at Annie and shrugged as she picked it up. “Canyon Restaurant Supply.”

She pulled up a screen on the computer and began verifying a list of numbers with the caller as Annie folded into one of the chairs around the conference table in the corner. The maple table-top could scarcely be seen beneath the pile of invoices, file folders, and unopened mail.

“Okay,” Zoey said. “I’ll run them again and get back to you in an hour.”

She hung up the phone, releasing a long sigh as she did. Turning toward Annie, Zoey opened her mouth to speak, but the phone rang again and sliced her words at the tip.

“Sorry,” she groaned. “Canyon Restaurant Supply. Yes, Angela, how are you?”

As Zoey answered a barrage of questions that made no real sense to Annie, Annie floated back to thoughts of Nick Benchley’s Auburn Beauty once again.

Then came the familiar acid chaser.

She’d told him she might join Evan at the theater that night but had decided instead to make it an early night. When he’d rushed her out the door so she could do just that, Annie had believed it was motivated by uncharacteristic sweetness.

I should have known better.

The truth was, she’d given him a great idea about how to spend his evening with another woman. And all the while, she’d been warming up to Nick in the time that they’d been working together for Deke, thinking she saw something special in him—something compelling and rather magnetic that drew her to him.

“I’m sorry, Annie,” Zoey said, interrupting her stream of thought. “I just don’t have time for a chat today. Can I call you later?”

“Sure.”

Annie tried to maintain the smile until she reached the front door then let it lapse as she made her way toward Taurie. Looking back through the window, she spotted Zoey tapping at the computer frantically, the phone to her ear once again.

She tried to remember if she ever knew what Zoey’s days

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