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Josh waved the piece of paper in front of Fern’s nose. “The treasure hunt.”
ОглавлениеHer heart seemed to have slowed to almost nothing and she could hear the rush of the river in her ears.
“You want me to be your partner?”
He jumped off the wall and stepped in front of her. For a moment she thought he was going to take her hands, but then he fidgeted, and stuffed them in his pockets. “Yes.”
“Why me?”
He looked her straight in the eye. “Because I think you’d be perfect.”
Inside her head she was screaming with frustration. How many times had she hoped to hear those words? But what he was asking her now wasn’t what she’d yearned for back then. He had no idea he’d ignited a painful and distant memory.
Four days with Josh. Once upon a time, she’d have thought that was heaven.
But it was only an hour since they’d met again, and she was getting all her signals crossed imagining there’d be moments and bolts from the blue and—heaven help her poor confused heart rate—kisses.
Four days would be far too much…and never enough.