Summer In Stanton (Stanton Falls #3) by Kaci Hart

 

 
    “I can do you one
better.”

 
    He scoffed.

 
    “I doubt it.”

 
    “You shouldn’t.”

 
    Connor froze in place.
 He knew that voice.  Well.  When she came through the kitchen
door, he couldn’t help but grin from ear-to-ear as he stood up from his seat.
 

 
    “Tessa?  What are you
doing here?”

 
    “Well I hear you’ve been
moping ever since I left.  Didn’t I make you promise to not get all sappy
when I was leaving?”

 
    “Yes but in all fairness
I didn’t know how hard it was to let you go.”

 
    “Okay.  Humor me
then.  If you could go back, what would you say?”

 
    “It doesn’t matter.
 You know I don’t like the idea of changing the past.  And I don’t
need to.  Not when you’re here now.  I guess the question is how long
are you going to be here?”

 
    “That all depends on
what you would have said.”

 
    “In that case, it would
have been something along the lines of, ‘I know you think you have to go but
you don’t.  You belong here, with me.  And you know that.’
  That’s how I would have started.”

 
    “Nice.  Smooth.”

 
    “Wait.  I’m not
done yet.”

 
    “I see.”

 
    “Then I would have said,
‘Why don’t I just ask you to be Mrs. Connor Armstrong so that we can make sure
that you stay and never leave.”

 
    “Well then I would have
probably had no choice but to stay.”
    He crossed the room and pulled her into a tight hug;
sweeping her off her feet and swinging her around.
    *****

 
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    Chapter
1 (Excerpt)

 
    Anna saw the woman as she walked into her office
and she knew exactly what it meant.   She
coaxed herself to be calm.  
    Don’t
kill the messenger.
    Still, she was finding it a bit hard not to at
least entertain the idea of doing so.   Not like it mattered.   No act of
violence or anger was going to make the stacks of documentation that were coming
in her direction go away any faster.   Besides, she knew it wasn’t the woman’s fault.    
    “I’m
sorry.”
    Callie
mouthed the silent apology and quickly scurried out of the room with a look on
her face that made Anna feel bad.   She
must not have been doing the best job hiding her frustration.    Even such, her momentary sarcasm arose when
she looked at the small mountain of paperwork that had found a temporary home
on her desk.   She thumbed through the
stack, taking inventory of all that was there.
    “Now
this is exactly what I needed today.   One, two, three new quality control reports for review and I don’t know
how much other stuff is here.   I swear
that the fun never stops here.”
    Anna
reminded herself to apologize to Callie later.   She knew the girl wasn’t the thickest skinned.   The last thing she ever wanted to do was hurt
her feelings.   That’s not the type of
person Anna was and even if she was mean, she had absolutely nothing against
Callie.   It was just that she hadn’t
planned on starting her day out with a gift like this, and unfortunately for
Callie, delivering those reports was one of her daily functions.  
    Anna
sat back in her chair, and looked around her office.   She could have done worse but that didn’t
mean she was completely happy.   She
certainly wasn’t living the life that she had dreamed of.   Being a professional didn’t turn out to be
anything like she had thought it would when she was so easily excitable in
college.   Back then she was ready to take
on the world.  
    She
had a master plan of course.   She was
supposed to graduate from college at the top of her class and start her own
little accounting firm that would grow into something on the level of H and R
Block.   Okay, so now she knew that her
ideas were a little more grandiose than