“The band is about to start,” he told her before he handed a woman her order of two coffees with lots of whip cream and chocolate sprinkles.
“Who is the old guy seated at the end of the bar?” she asked without looking toward him.
Maverick glanced over her shoulder. “That’s George Herman.”
Even though he’d been polite the previous night, his intense stare unsettled her, but she couldn’t tear her gaze away. The sounds of polite conversation around her seemed to fade in the distance as she watched the man cup his a mug and slowly lift it to his lips, never entirely taking his gaze off her as he indulged.
Maverick’s rich laughter drew her attention once more to where he was now chatting with a woman who was openly flirting as her finger lightly dabbed the whipped cream from her coffee cup and placed it between red-puckered lips for a taste.
“I’m surprised you opened Heart and Soul as a coffeehouse to showcase the bands and not a bar,” she said as she admired yet another photo.
“I assure you, we aren’t breaking any rules,” he teased and winked with a smile when she turned to meet his gaze.
Rowan tossed and turned in her sleep, but the dreams invaded her slumber without a care of how she would fare in the morning. She used to try to force them away, but now she welcomed them with hopes of learning more about the couple she was connected to in ways that would boggle the mind. It had taken her years to accept and embrace it even when others thought she’d lost all perspective on what was real and what was imagined.
Lars has a theory why he’s remained earthbound… This is continued from last week.
Setup for this snippet with a recap from last week: Her father was offended that she would suggest that he purposely drove his truck off the pier.
Cecilia didn’t believe in ghosts until her father, who died tragically 23 years ago, appears to her. She’s still trying to wrap her mind around the fact that ghosts are real. We’re jumping ahead a few sentences in this snippet from last week’s. She threw a few questions at her father. One she asked if her mother could see him. Her father told her no, but he thought she could sense his presence.
Now for the snippet. Cecilia glances at her father, taking in his appearance all at once…
The man claiming to be her father who die twenty-three years ago disappeared then reappeared again, making her believe ghosts just might be real. He told her he’d been trying to make contact with someone.
The stranger claims to be her father who died twenty-three years ago. If that’s true why does he look like he hasn’t aged a day?
