Reeling: River's Sigh B & B, #6 by Ev Bishop

Author:Ev Bishop
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781772650211
Publisher: Winding Path Books
Published: 2020-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“What’s up with you? Something’s different,” Gray muttered almost to himself—but it was true. He’d only been gone a week and a half, yet Mia had . . . changed.

She looked surprised, then grinned sort of shyly and waggled her foot. “It’s just the hot purple boots.”

“It is not the boots,” he groused. “But they’re something else, all right.”

“Something else good, or something else bad?”

Gray wasn’t sure. He was too distracted by her denim clad legs—ah, that was part of the difference maybe. Her clothes. He was used to her baggy sweats and tucked up hair. Seeing her in snug jeans and a low-necked sweater was . . . disconcerting. He was already disturbingly attracted to her when she was in workout gear, sans makeup, sans effort. Now that she was dressing up, or he was around when she was dressed up anyway, he couldn’t help but notice—and he didn’t like it. Or rather, he did like it. That was the problem.

They were sitting on Sockeye’s cozy covered porch with a crackling fire blazing away in the little chiminea. Over their heads, rain pounded a wild beat on the tin roof, streaming from the sky in sheets, not drops.

Gray tried not to think how nice it was to sit and watch the rain with Mia, rather than languishing at his place, listening to it alone. He’d been back for three days and this was his second time seeing her, despite the crazy rain, although they hadn’t resumed lessons yet. He’d stopped by on his way home from the airport, ostensibly to check in with her and to confirm she hadn’t started training with someone else, that she still wanted lessons from him. He knew better than to believe his own excuse though. He’d missed her while he was away. Grieving his friend, helping Tracy with arrangements, enduring the rigmarole of the funeral, etc.—none of it had kept his mind off her. And then today he’d come to see her, well, because he was weak and couldn’t stay away.

“Back in a sec,” she said suddenly, popping out of her seat and disappearing into the cabin. Gray tried not to watch her departure and failed miserably.

“You’re scowling,” she said, when she reappeared a few minutes later, carrying two steaming mugs of hot chocolate.

He set his down on the porch railing. “We have to talk,” he said at the exact same time Mia chirped, “I’m so happy you’re back!”

She obviously heard him because the warm glow in her eyes dimmed a bit.

“Talk about what?” she asked guardedly.

“The little notes, the impromptu visits, our hanging out longer than designated lesson times . . . It all has to stop.”

Mia had been about to sip her cocoa, but now she lowered the brimming mug without a taste. “But why? I thought that we were, maybe, um . . .” Her cheeks flamed as she stumbled over her words, then she repeated herself and finished her sentence in an embarrassed whisper. “I thought we’d become friends.

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