Rain met Jeri when she got off the plane. She knew nobody else would be waiting for her, so she said hello to the drizzle under her breath, collected her bag from the overhead compartment, and made her way through the airport to the taxi line.
Her heart skipped every other beat, though she hadn’t even contacted Howie or Randy yet. She had a week here in Eugene, and she was feeling more and more foolish for coming without telling anyone.
Her problems couldn’t be fixed in a week—especially when the two men she needed to see didn’t even know she was in town.
She stepped to the front of the taxi line and gave the man the address to the hotel she’d booked. She had two more months on the project at Last Chance Ranch, and she’d still done nothing to find another job. She’d put in no bids, she
