Nightingale Way by Emily March

Author:Emily March [March, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9780345528780
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2012-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

Jack thought the Saturday night date went very well, and when he walked her to the door of Nightingale Cottage, he kissed her thoroughly, then asked, “So, are you still thinking?”

She answered affirmatively.

As he climbed into his cold and lonely bed that night, he did suffer a few pangs of doubt. Was he making a big mistake? Was pursuing her the right thing to do? Yes, he loved her, but he’d always loved her and he’d been getting along relatively well without having her in his life the last few years. Perhaps he did take too many physical risks since nobody waited at home for him. Melinda had taken him to task for the dangerous choices he’d made in recent months. She’d be happy if he took to avoiding such situations because he had someone in his life who cared for him again. Except, considering that that someone would be Cat, maybe not.

It could be argued that getting involved again with Cat could be the riskiest move he could make. What if he offered her his heart again and she refused to take it? He’d rather take a steel blade to it than endure that sort of pain.

The next afternoon he invited her to go sailing with him on Hummingbird Lake, and again, at the end of the date, in response to his question and his kiss, she remained committed to “thinking.” They spent part of each day together for the next week, sometimes on official dates, other times as reporter and photographer as she continued researching historical sites for her Eternity Times series.

The Cam Murphy Day special edition had proved to be a hit, selling out completely. Cat gave credit to the visual appeal that Jack’s photographs added. He claimed the quality of the writing did the trick. They both recognized that everyone in town wanted the details of the Cellar Bride / Murphy Mountain news, and the special section could have been written in pencil on a Big Chief tablet and it would have sold out. Still, when he loudly gave her praise at the Mocha Moose sandwich shop while they ate lunch yesterday, she’d visibly preened.

A week after Cam’s big day, Cat and Jack visited the original Silver Miracle Mine. The Eternity Springs development committee had the mine site listed for possible restoration and development as a tourist attraction, but for now it remained an isolated, all but forgotten scar upon an otherwise beautiful spot. And yet, Jack couldn’t deny the allure of weathered timber and multicolored sludge, all that was left of the dreams of riches that had lured men into these mountains by the thousands in the second half of the nineteenth century. His own family history swirled through his thoughts as he shot photos of the place where Lucien Davenport had struck it rich, and Cat chattered about historical details she had gleaned as she researched her article. But when he spied a pair of red foxes scampering across a wildflower-dotted meadow below the mine, imaginings of the past faded away.

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