The January Cove Series: Books 6-8
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He looked at her, his eyes wide. “What?”
“It hurt me when you didn’t tell me who you were, but I was wrong in the way I reacted. Seeing that guy out there snap a picture of you just proves your point. You didn’t know if I would like you for your money or fame, and you just wanted to see if I would like you for you. I get it now.”
“You get it now? Why didn’t you get it back in January Cove, Laura?” he asked, clearly frustrated.
“Because it turns out everything isn’t always as it seems.”
“You’re talking in riddles,” he said, taking a sip of his coffee.
“That dream board wasn’t my mother’s. It was my wild and crazy aunt’s.”
Sawyer almost spit his coffee out, stifling a laugh that was battling to come out. “Seriously? Oh my gosh, that’s funny.”
She stood and walked around the counter, taking Sawyer’s coffee from his hands and setting it on the countertop. She took his hands in hers and stared up into his eyes.
“I’m tired of living everyone else’s dreams, Sawyer. I want to live my dreams. And the only person I want to do that with is you. Being with you changed me. You make me want to take chances.”
“What are you saying, Laura?”
“I’m saying that I love you, and I will stay here in Nashville with you if I have to. I know you signed that new contract, and I’m sorry that you felt you had to do it because of me. But as soon as it’s up, I want you to come back to January Cove with me. Because you deserve to live your dreams, no matter how big or small.”
“You love me?” he asked with a smile, as if that was the only part he heard.
“I do.”
“Well, I love you too, Laura Bennett. Even if you do keep hitting me with your car. Seriously, stop doing that.” His dimpled smile gave her chills up and down her spine. He pulled her into his chest and kissed the top of her head. “But you can’t stay in Nashville.”
“What? Why?”
“Because Sweetcakes is in January Cove. That’s your baby.”
“You’re my baby,” she whispered as she rose up on her tip toes and lightly kissed him.
“And I love to hear that…” he said before deepening their kiss. “But I won’t be here.”
Laura pulled back. “Your tour is already starting? I don’t know much about the music business, but don’t you have to record the album first?”
Sawyer smiled. “I didn’t sign the contract, Laura. I just couldn’t do it.”
“So what have you been doing here all this time?” she asked.
“Waiting for you. And praying that you would show up on my doorstep.”
She grinned and jumped up into his arms, her legs coiled tightly around his waist. “Thank God! So we can go home? Back to January Cove?”
“Yes, we can go home,” he said, pulling her to him tightly before setting her up on the kitchen counter in front of him. “Of course, you’ll need a night to rest before we leave, and I just happen to have a bedroom right here in this house…”
Laura smiled brightly. “Who needs a bedroom when I can rest right here on this kitchen island?”
“I do like the way you think, Laura Bennett.”
“We sold over one-hundred cupcakes today!” Katie said with her big, brace-covered smile. The teenager had been working with Laura for just a few weeks, but she was a hard worker and good with the customers.
“That’s awesome! Thanks for your help today. You’ll be a manager in no time,” Laura said with a wink, patting Katie on the back as the young girl went out the front door.
Sawyer walked in just as she was closing up and swept Laura into hug. He nuzzled his nose against her hair and sucked in a sharp breath.
“Today’s special was banana pudding cupcakes?”
“How do you do that?” she asked with a laugh.
“I have very keen senses, Miss Bennett. For instance, my sense of smell is nothing compared to my sense of taste,” he said, bending down and stealing a long, slow kiss. “You had a vanilla latte from Jolt?”
“And you had garlic pasta from Zach’s?”
Sawyer pulled back and laughed, covering his mouth with his hand. “Sorry. I ran out of gum.”
“So how was your day?” she asked as she slipped her arms around his waist again.
“Great. Tommy actually learned that new chord I was showing him on the guitar. We’re planning to have a whole talent show at the end of camp next week, and I can’t wait for you to see the progress these kids have made. I’m so proud of them.”
“Well, I’m proud of you, Sawyer.” She kissed him lightly on his neck and then made her way to his lips again.
“You are? Really? Even though I’m not a big superstar anymore?”
“You’re my superstar, Sawyer Griffin, and that’s all that counts.”
The End
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