Chapter 18
Tess stood in line at the coffee shop. It had been just over a week since Nathan left, or rather since she’d asked him to leave. Slipping her phone out of her purse, she opened her calendar and counted the days until her flight to Diamond Creek—twenty-two days left. She’d begun to think she’d been stubborn and stupid to ask him to go. Instead of feeling clear-headed and logical, as if she could make a decision about her life in a rational way, she missed him fiercely, her thoughts drifting to how it felt to wake up beside him in the morning, so many moments when he took her breath away, and his eyes…those blue, blue eyes.
As much as Tess had worried about the fallout from Nathan’s fight with Chad, her business contacts had been surprisingly supportive. In the intervening week,
