Summer at Seaside Cove by Jacquie D'Alessandro

Author:Jacquie D'Alessandro [D'Alessandro, Jacquie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780425241493
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2011-05-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The full moon hung in the evening sky, a fat, luminous pearl resting on inky velvet, the foreground to a thick scattering of brilliant diamond stars. Nick drove toward the main road for the hour-long trip back to Seaside Cove. He flicked a quick glance behind him. Godiva stretched the length of the backseat, dreaming doggie dreams. Nick then glanced at Jamie and found her looking at him. With the oddest expression. As if she’d never seen him before.

He returned his attention to the road, then to break the silence that somehow felt thick with tension, he said, “Those were some incredible brownies you made. I think Kevin wants you to move in.”

“No need. I wrote down the recipe for Liz.”

“Kev will have her baking them every day.”

“Well, you know what they say—the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”

“First—not necessary since she already has his heart, and vice versa. And second, I actually think the way to a man’s heart is about twelve inches lower than his stomach.”

She gave a husky laugh that arrowed heat twelve inches lower than his stomach. “That’s most likely true.”

“Wait a minute—did you just agree with me again? Twice in the same day?”

“I’ll alert the media.”

Silence once again swelled between them and he wracked his brain for something to say, other than the words that were lodged in his throat like dry breadcrumbs: Let’s get naked.

“I liked Kevin and Liz a lot,” she said.

Nick seized on the topic, giving himself a mental thunk on the head for not thinking to talk about the neutral topic of Kevin and Liz himself. “They’re great people. And an equally great couple.”

“How long have they been together?”

“Three years, married for two and a half of those.”

“A whirlwind courtship.”

“Very. But Kevin was a goner the minute he met Liz, and she felt the same way. Never saw anything like it.”

“Where did they meet?”

Nick’s lips twitched. “Believe it or not, they met at the Seaside Cove Clam Festival.”

“Really? I had no idea the event was such a hotbed of romantic intrigue.”

He laughed. “Kevin called me that night from the festival to tell me he’d just met the woman he was going to marry. I thought he was nuts.”

“You don’t believe in love at first sight?”

“No. Lust at first sight? Yes. But love? I think that takes more time. How about you?”

“Well, given that my parents were a classic ‘love at first sight’ story, I’d never discount it, although I think it’s really more of a ‘wow, I really click with this person’ sucker punch to the heart. And the love blooms from that initial punch.”

He considered for a moment, then nodded. “I never thought of it that way. For a long time I didn’t believe that sort of love was possible. Except for observing Kevin’s parents together during those high school summers, happy marriages weren’t part of my growing-up experience. But seeing Kevin and Liz together now, how good they are together, how happy they are, has me thinking that maybe, with the right person, it’s possible.

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