Promise Cove (A Pelican Pointe Novel Book 1) (34 page)

Defini
t
ely
the
k
ind
of
woman
he
made
a
point
t
o
a
v
o
id, the
k
ind
y
ou
kept
at
a
r
m
’
s
le
n
g
th.

H
e
worked
the
k
in
k
s
out
of
h
i
s
nec
k
.
A
v
o
ided
that
k
ind of
woman
for
a
rea
s
on,
he
decided,
as
he
g
o
t
t
o
work
cleani
n
g
up
the
caked
and
d
r
ied
paint
m
e
ss
h
e
’
d
crea
t
ed
hou
r
s earlier
when
h
e
’
d
fallen
asleep
on
the
jo
b
.

A
s
J
or
d
an
headed
in
t
o
get
H
ut
t
on,
she
decided
as
a
w
k
w
ard
as
it
w
as
t
o
h
a
ve
N
ick
wor
k
i
n
g
in
the
hou
s
e,
it
a
ls
o felt
like
the
r
ight
thi
n
g
t
o
d
o
.
S
he
could
n
’t
exa
c
tly
exp
l
ain tha
t
, e
x
cept
for
the fa
c
t
that
for
the past
t
wo
y
ea
r
s she
had been
lonely
li
v
i
n
g
out
here
w
ith
only
H
ut
t
on
for
compa
n
y
.

W
hile
she
put
a
clean
d
i
aper
on
H
ut
t
on,
she
made
a men
t
al checkl
i
st of thi
n
g
s she needed
t
o d
is
cuss
w
ith him
a
bout
the
wor
k
.
Af
t
er
all,
they
had
a
common
deadline
t
o meet.
There
w
as
a
work
s
chedule
t
o
or
g
aniz
e
.
W
hen
would she
h
a
ve
g
o
t
t
en
around
t
o
painti
n
g
the
li
v
i
n
g
room?
S
he
t
ook a
deep
breath,
blew
it
out.
H
er
l
ack
of
or
g
anization
and
direction
needed
t
o
cha
n
g
e
.
O
ver
the
next
few
wee
k
s,
she
needed
t
o
focus
bet
t
er
and
s
t
op
this
h
a
bit
of
not
f
i
n
i
shi
n
g
a
n
y
thi
n
g
.
S
h
e
’
d
h
a
v
e
t
o
mak
e
sur
e
sh
e
ke
p
t
a
ta
lly
of
all
the
work
he
did.
S
he
could
n
’t
de
n
y
the
pr
o
spe
c
t
of
h
a
v
i
n
g
s
omeone
t
o
d
is
cu
s
s her
p
l
ans
w
ith
felt
good
though.
A
s
she
s
et
H
ut
t
on
down
on the
floor
t
o
w
a
l
k
,
as
she
w
at
ched
her
d
augh
t
er
t
oddle
out
the doo
r
,
she
de
c
ided
sh
e
’
d
made
the
r
ight
de
ci
sion
t
o
let
N
ick
H
ar
r
i
s
s
t
a
y
.

It
took
a
couple
of
d
a
y
s
for
them
t
o
s
ettle
in
t
o
a
work routin
e
.
J
or
d
an
would
fin
i
sh
pain
t
i
n
g
the
g
u
e
st
rooms
wh
i
le

N
ick
t
ackled
the
m
y
r
i
ad
plum
b
i
n
g
problems
that
al
w
a
y
s
s
eemed
t
o
oc
c
ur
in
an
old
hou
s
e
w
ith
five
f
u
l
l
bathrooms,
a
l
l of
which
had
an
c
ient
f
i
x
t
ur
e
s.

F
or
a
no
v
ic
e
plumbe
r
N
ic
k
ha
d
problem
s
f
ro
m
the
be
g
inni
n
g
.
I
t
did
n
’
t
ta
k
e
a
geni
u
s
to
f
i
g
ure
out
fo
r
the
n
ex
t
t
w
o
month
s
h
i
s
tim
e
woul
d
b
e
spen
t
rep
l
a
c
i
ng
and
f
i
x
i
ng
d
r
ip
p
i
ng
fauce
t
s
,
wobbl
y
t
o
i
l
e
ts
,
an
d
broke
n
t
i
l
e.
S
p
r
a
wle
d
on
the
bathroom
f
l
oo
r
,
h
i
s
a
r
m
s
w
r
apped
around a
n
uns
t
ead
y
b
ran
d
-
ne
w
porce
l
ai
n
bowl
,
h
e
di
d
h
i
s
b
e
s
t
to
hol
d
i
t
i
n
p
l
ac
e
wh
i
l
e
att
em
p
ti
ng
to
bol
t
i
t
to
the
f
l
oor
w
ith
a
wrench
.
On
e
o
f
J
ord
a
n
’
s
m
a
n
y
how-
to
plum
b
i
ng
boo
k
s l
a
y
open
nex
t
to
him
.
B
ut
i
t
w
a
s
n
’
t
exa
c
tl
y
g
o
i
ng
t
e
x
t
book
pe
r
f
e
ct
.
“So
n
o
f
a
b
i
t
ch
.
”