Sweet Tea B&B by Rachel Hanna

Author:Rachel Hanna
Language: eng
Format: epub

Kate finished her meal and walked down the sidewalk. The town was cute, she had to admit. The air was also very crisp up in the mountains even though it was May.

She sat down on a bench under a big oak tree and looked down at her phone. A text message popped up. It was a customer back in Rhode Island, wanting to know if she could plan a retirement party for the father of a wealthy socialite. The party would be held in a mansion in Newport.

As she looked at the text and then looked around Carter’s Hollow, she almost had to laugh. The two areas of the country were so vastly different.

Daddy must have the best lobsters we can find. Perhaps you have connections in Maine? Also, the tablecloths are a big issue for me. I don’t like cheap materials. Nanette said you did well with her party last year, but I was there and those tablecloths were atrocious. Can you speak about that?

Ugh. Sometimes she hated the types of people she had to deal with in her business. They were typically snooty, uppity and beyond annoying. But they had money, and she needed it.

Still, when they went home to their mansions, nannies and often loveless marriages, she went to a tiny apartment where the stove only occasionally worked and the upstairs neighbor seemed to wear tap shoes day and night.

Sometimes, it wore on her. She wanted more, for herself and her daughter. She wanted stability, financial freedom and peace. She wanted to look in her bank account at the end of the month and not have a panic attack trying to figure out how to make ends meet. She wanted to not pressure her daughter to find her first job just so she wouldn’t have to give her so much spending money anymore. She wanted to be able to say yes when Evie wanted to see a movie or take hip hop dance lessons.

She said no a lot.

“You okay, miss?” a man asked from beside her. He was standing over her, a cup of coffee in his hand. She glanced up, not long enough to even see his face, and then looked back down at her phone.

“Yes. Thanks.”

Without warning, he sat down on the other end of the bench and sighed. “Sure is pretty weather out here today, huh?”

She didn’t make eye contact. “I guess so.”

He cleared his throat. “You new in town?”

Finally, she looked at him. He was handsome, no doubt about it. But he wasn’t handsome in a Newport, Rhode Island kind of way. He was mountain man handsome, with hands that had seen real work and tan skin that didn’t come from a spray or a booth.

He had brown hair with tinges of gold, and it was so thick that she was jealous. It hung just above his shoulders, and she tried hard not to look lower at his biceps bulging under the cotton t-shirt he was wearing.

“Um, yes. Just visiting, actually.”

“Ah. Well, welcome to Carter’s Hollow.

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