Brad’s stomach squirmed like he’d swallowed live snakes as he walked up Celeste’s front sidewalk. Somewhere in her garden, crickets sang, and he wished he was as content. The woman had been on his mind for hours, and he hadn’t even cared that another delay at his construction site across the channel that separated Carter’s Cove from the mainland would set him back a week.
Didn’t even care.
careHe wasn’t sure how the woman had wormed her way under his skin so quickly. Sure, she was beautiful, but he knew outward beauty could only go so far. He’d noticed that she hadn’t been wearing the engagement band at breakfast that morning, and he’d been stewing over her rules ever since.
He knocked, and another blonde opened the door barely two seconds later. Her sister—and she’d clearly been antici
