The House on Cannon Beach by RaeAnne Thayne

Author:RaeAnne Thayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

“Did everybody have fun at Ecola?” Sage asked the thirteen tired, sweaty children gathered around her at the end of the day.

“Yeeeessss!” came the resounding cheer from the campers.

“I did, too. Remember, if the weather cooperates, tomorrow is our beach day. We’re going to spend the whole day on Cannon Beach, so make sure you have your hats and your sunscreen and a warm jacket. We’ll be tide-pooling near Haystack Rock, flying kites and having a sand-castle competition.”

She smiled as the campers cheered with excitement. “Now your parents will be here in a few moments. It’s time to gather up your backpacks and the projects we did today so you’re all ready to hit the road.”

The campers jumped up and dispersed to the classroom where they stowed their gear. As she helped find missing jackets and refereed arguments over whose watercolor of aggregating anemone was better, she was aware of the anticipation curling through her.

Your parents will be here in a few moments, she had told the children, but it was the thought of only one parent’s arrival that churned her pulse and sent wild-edged nerves zinging through her.

Ridiculous, she reminded herself.

Eben Spencer was just another parent and that’s exactly the way she had to treat him. She certainly should not have spent what seemed like the entire day remembering their morning together—his powerful muscles as he ran beside her toward Hug Point, his slow smile as he enjoyed the sunshine, his low words when he said he wished he could kiss her again.

Even though they had argued, she couldn’t seem to stop thinking about him.

She needed a good dousing in the Pacific.

Perhaps if she had seen him when he dropped off Chloe in the morning she wouldn’t feel this glittery anticipation, but she had been busy on the phone arranging a field trip for the next session of camp. By the time she emerged from her office, Chloe had been working with Lindsey and several of the other children in a gathering activity to identify different sea creatures and their typical habitat and Eben had been nowhere in sight.

“Sage! There you are! I’ve been trying to catch you all week.”

She groaned at the perky voice ringing through the center. Damn Eben Spencer anyway! If she hadn’t been so distracted by thoughts of him, she might have been able to employ her usual tactics to avoid Tracy Harder. Now she had nowhere safe to go.

“Hi, Tracy. How are you?”

The other woman beamed at her. “Just great. I got the listings for two new properties today, right next to each other in Manzanita. They’re half a block from the ocean and ought to move fast. So how were my two little terrors?”

She forced a smile. Tracy had been bringing her twins to camp for three years, ever since they turned old enough to attend, and right around the time their parents divorced.

The boys were terrors but she liked to chalk it up to high energy, not maliciousness.

“We had a great day today.

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