Water of Life: Bourbon Springs Book 9: Bourbon Springs, #9 by Jennifer Bramseth

Author:Jennifer Bramseth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: unknown

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When Drake and Cara compared notes about their respective encounters with Craig County gossip, they both suspected a larger hand in its spread.

“I don’t know how Hannah hadn’t heard about this yet,” Cara told Drake that Friday night as they enjoyed a small celebratory dinner at The Rickhouse in honor of his upcoming home purchase.

After her conversation with CiCi, Cara had taken a long lunch and called Hannah to tell her what had happened. She didn’t want to call from the courthouse, even using her own personal cell phone, lest she be overheard talking about her campaign during work hours. In fact, she completely left the vicinity of the courthouse and went home for lunch to eat, relax, and see Nate.

“How’d she take it?”

“What do you think?” Cara said as the server refilled their water glasses as they waited for their meals. She had ordered the hot brown, a dish for which the restaurant was well known, and Drake had ordered filet mignon.

“How long did she curse?”

“Didn’t time it, but she did go on for a while.”

“And knowing Hannah Davenport, she has a plan to counteract those vicious rumors?” Drake picked up his glass of Garnet over ice, took an appreciative whiff, and sipped.

“She didn’t say what it was, but I could almost hear the gears in her mind whirring through the phone.”

“I’m amazed that CiCi hadn’t heard the rumor either. That woman knows everything.”

“Apparently she doesn’t, and that, along with Hannah’s ignorance of the same gossip, really worries me. It shows me that I’m up against a formidable force.”

“Garner,” Drake nodded, replacing his glass on the table. He loosened his tie and ran his hand through his hair.

Cara looked at him, breathless. He was strikingly handsome. There had been times in their relationship when she’d questioned why he had any attraction to her. While no slouch herself in the looks department, Drake was the kind of guy that women noticed and wanted. She had seen the envious looks of other ladies when they’d been out together. By contrast, men had rarely sought her company.

Or had she pushed them away? If so, that made someone like Drake all the more remarkable. He had persevered.

“Something wrong?” he asked, pulling her from her thoughts.

“No.” She brought her glass of white wine to her lips but not taking her eyes off Drake.

He grinned, and Cara hoped where the evening was heading—straight to Drake’s bed. Maybe they’d even skip dessert and go directly to his place.

That thought simultaneously made her happy and sad, because when he moved to his new abode, he would be at least ten minutes away from her house instead of an easy, less-than-five-minutes’ drive.

While she was delighted he was buying the home of his dreams, the physical distance it would put between them was already making her wistful for the relaxed, comfortable circumstances they enjoyed. He’d promised her that on Sunday he would show her his new estate, as he jokingly called it. The sellers were going out of town for the long weekend and had been happy to accommodate his request to view the property again.

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