A Moonbeam in the Bay (CHASING TIDES #5) by Fiona Baker EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Fiona Baker
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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Willis Jenkins squinted against the sunlight as a cool breeze from the ocean
ruffled his dark hair, cooling the warmth of his skin.
I’m getting too old for this nonsense, he thought as he took another look
at the repairs that he’d just made on the roof of Tidal Wave Coffee. The
shingles that he’d replaced were tucked in perfectly with the others—the
only difference between them was that the new shingles were slightly
darker in color, having never been subjected to long hours of sunlight.
Carefully, Willis picked up his toolbox and made his way to the edge of
the roof, where his ladder was leaning. As he climbed down it, a couple of
curious customers paused in the doorway of the coffee shop, blinking at
him.
“Haven’t you ever seen someone repair a roof?” he asked them. His
voice was gruff, but he winked after the words.
Probably not, he thought with a sense of satisfaction.
Not a lot of the buildings around town needed repairs, and when they
did it was seldom, like this one. Years before he had built Tidal Wave
Coffee with his own two hands, as well as his own restaurant, The Crab,
and several other buildings in Blueberry Bay. The buildings in town were
well-built, and he knew it better than anyone.
If things are made well, they don’t break, he thought—a phrase that
often went through his mind or passed through his lips. That roof would
have held up without any trouble for years if it weren’t for that branch
scraping it during the storm.
It was May in Blueberry Bay, and the spring weather brought with it
coastal rainstorms. He never minded a storm, though, because afterward the
air smelled cleaner and the world looked fresher. He sniffed the air eagerly.
It was an afternoon with warm sunlight and a chilly breeze, and the air held
the invigorating scent of growing things.
He closed up the ladder and placed his toolbox beside it. He noticed that
the customers who had been blinking at him earlier were now watching him
from inside the coffee shop.
They probably think I’m some kind of ogre, he thought, smiling to
himself a little. I guess I am becoming a little bit like the town grump.
He realized how long it had been since he’d had a real conversation
with someone—well, someone other than his daughter Hannah. But his
conversations with her were nearly all phone calls, now that she was off
studying to be a pianist at Jacob’s School of Music in Indiana. Sometimes
he reminisced about what life was like before she met her boyfriend, Luke
Ward. She had always been around to help him out at The Crab, and
sometimes he missed her so much his chest ached.
She’s much happier now, he reminded himself. Besides, Luke is a great
guy. He’s the one who encouraged her to pursue her dream.
He smiled, lost in thought for a moment about the joyful look on his
daughter’s face whenever she played the piano.
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