Promise Cove (A Pelican Pointe Novel Book 1) (232 page)

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he
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b
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th
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n
out
in
t
o
the
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or
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o
w
n that
s
o
l
d
me
n
’
s
cl
o
thi
n
g
.

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or
d
a
n
sucke
d
i
n
a
breat
h
.
The
man
looked
as
though h
e
’
d
s
t
epped
off
the
s
et
of
one
of
th
os
e
reali
t
y
bachelor sho
w
s.
S
he
looked
him
up
and
do
w
n.
“
F
or
a
fo
r
mer
i
n
v
e
stment
banker
t
u
r
ned
ca
r
pen
t
er
s
l
ash
contra
c
t
or
y
ou
clean
up
a
wf
u
l
ly
good
.
”

N
ick
e
y
ed
the
y
e
l
low
sundr
e
s
s.
A
nd
her
lo
n
g
le
g
s.
“
R
ight back
at
y
ou
,
”
he
s
queaked
ou
t
,
t
r
y
i
n
g
t
o
do
w
np
l
a
y
h
i
s
react
io
n
beca
u
s
e
h
i
s
k
n
e
e
s
ha
d
w
an
t
e
d
t
o
buckl
e
a
t
th
e
s
i
gh
t
of
J
or
d
a
n
i
n
tha
t
dr
es
s
.
The
woman
looked
good
enough
t
o
ea
t
.
A
s
they
w
a
l
k
ed
out
the
f
ront
doo
r
,
he
caught
a
whiff
of
her
s
cent
and
wh
i
spered
t
o
her
on
the
w
a
y
t
o
the
ca
r
,
“
Y
ou
sure
y
ou
do
n
’t
w
ant
t
o
cha
n
ge
y
our
mind.
I
think
I
could
come
up
w
ith
a
more
in
t
er
e
s
t
i
n
g
w
a
y
t
o
spend
the
mo
r
ni
n
g
.
”

“
Oh,
s
weetie,
that
’
s
m
y
p
l
an
for
when
H
ut
t
o
n
’
s
t
a
k
i
n
g her
af
t
e
r
noo
n
na
p
.
”

A
s
he
c
r
a
wled
behind
the
wheel,
w
ith
h
i
s
one
good hand
on
h
i
s
hea
r
t
,
he
mut
t
ered,
“
W
ho
k
new
the
quiet
on
e
s would
t
u
r
n
out
t
o
be
insat
i
a
ble?”

Twenty minutes later
, they were greeted with plenty of stares from the other freshly scrubbed parishioners as the three of them settled into a wooden pew in the last row near the door.

H
o
ldi
n
g
H
u
t
t
o
n
o
n
he
r
l
a
p
,
J
or
d
a
n
w
as
n
’
t
su
r
p
r
is
e
d
whe
n
E
t
he
l
J
en
k
in
s
t
u
r
n
e
d
i
n
he
r
s
ea
t
,
leane
d
ove
r
the
bac
k
,
an
d
of
f
ere
d
t
o
t
a
k
e
the
b
a
b
y
in
t
o
the
nu
r
s
e
r
y
.
“
P
as
t
o
r
W
hi
t
com
b
ha
s
a
t
enden
c
y
t
o
b
e
lo
n
g-
w
inde
d
e
spe
c
i
a
l
l
y
on Eas
t
e
r
S
u
n
d
a
y
.
”
H
e
r
rasp
y
v
o
ic
e
w
a
s
n
o
t
the
leas
t
apologe
t
ic a
s
sh
e
wen
t
o
n
t
o
e
xp
l
ain
,
“
A
c
t
ua
l
l
y
the
ma
n
p
rattl
e
s
on m
o
s
t
S
u
n
d
a
y
s
a
s
a
mat
t
e
r
o
f
record
.
T
r
u
s
t
m
e
whe
n
I
s
a
y that
b
a
b
y
w
il
l
b
e
bet
t
e
r
of
f
i
n
the
nu
r
s
e
r
y
.
”