Shawn’s nerves fired through him with the force of gravity. Lissa would probably take one look at him and the non-party at Bo’s house and stalk away. He could just see her doing it, too. And dang, if that image didn’t excite and terrify him at the same time.
When he’d first arrived in Carter’s Cove, his goal was singular. Get Olympia Heartwood to sell. Why he’d thought he could actually do that, he wasn’t sure. He hadn’t known her well, as she was five years older than he and Lissa, well out of the house before Shawn even started high school.
She hadn’t even remembered who he was until he mentioned his mother’s name. Olympia knew Julie Newman, as his mother made all the floral centerpieces for big events at the inn. Still. She had for years, and The Heartwood Inn had been her biggest cli
