Levi had always thought of Cottonwood as small and quaint, but by the time Hayley had exhausted the shops there, it felt as if the whole day had gone by.
Which wasn’t exactly true. While she looked at throw pillows, he pulled his phone out of his pocket and glanced at the time. Four thirty-six. They’d spent more than four hours together, so that was most of the afternoon, if not the entire day. The strange thing was that those hours had moved more quickly than he’d expected, given that shopping had never been one of his favorite pastimes.
Hayley, on the other hand, seemed to excel at it. Not that she was profligate; no, she considered every purchase carefully, didn’t simply buy things because they were new and novel and set in front of her. But she did seem to have inexhaustible energy w
