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The Very Thought of You: The Thorntons Book 2 Chapter 1
“You gonna do something with that loaf of bread, or are you just going to stare at it until it bursts into flames?”Megan Flannigan looked up from the burnt loaf of banana bread currently sitting on her bakery’s counter to gaze into the green eyes of her greatest nemesis, Caleb Thornton. Her heart fluttered into her throat, which annoyed her beyond anything.“I was just thinking,” she retorted. “Until you interrupted me.”“Now I’m curious what you were thinking about with that frown on your face.”She opened her mouth, but closed it just as quickly. Her injured hand—cut a week prior on one of the many kitchen knives in her bakery—tingled. Or maybe it merely ached. She wasn’t sure how to parse her feelings about much of anything anymore.Caleb Thornton never failed to rouse both her irritation and her desire in equal measures. With his careless good looks, green eyes, and angelic grin, he could get the devil himself to do what he wanted with his charm. Couple that with his police u
The Very Thought of You: The Thorntons Book 2 Chapter 2
When Caleb had gotten the call from dispatch that there’d been a robbery at The Rise and Shine, he didn’t consider why he’d driven like a madman to get there, or why the thought of Megan hurt and scared—had she been there when the robbery had occurred?—sent his thoughts into a tailspin.He’d had to force his thoughts into the neat box of a police officer, not a concerned citizen. He had to exude calm and capability, even if everyone around him panicked.It was easier said than done when he walked up to the bakery to see Megan sitting on a bench outside, looking as lost as when he’d arrested her.“Megan, are you all right?”He squatted down in front of her. He almost took her hands, but he wasn’t Caleb Thornton right now: he was Officer Thornton, and he needed to keep a professional distance from this woman. No matter how much it tore him up inside to do so.She glanced up. Her eyes were wide, bright blue, and he was surprised to see that she wasn’t crying. She just looked shocked.
The Very Thought of You: The Thorntons Book 2 Chapter 3
After they’d cleaned up the bakery as much as possible, Harrison slapped a hand on Caleb’s shoulder and said he was going to take him for a drink. “You look like you need it,” he said.Caleb wasn’t sure he was the person who needed a drink the most—Megan probably was the number one candidate—but he wasn’t going to turn down free booze. His shift now over until morning, he let his older brother buy the first round of drinks at the Fainting Goat, a watering hole opened a few years ago in Fair Haven’s small downtown.Owned by Trent Younger, a family friend of the Thorntons, the Fainting Goat had been successful the moment it had opened its doors. Trent now owned a number of restaurants in the area, and last Caleb had heard, he was looking to open a location in Seattle. Trent also had a history with Lizzie Thornton, about which Caleb had always wondered but had never tried to pry. His younger sister, a musician traveling the country at the moment, tended to be tight-lipped about her pers
The Very Thought of You: The Thorntons Book 2 Chapter 4
“Is he seriously going to stand out there all day?” Megan asked in irritation as she wiped down the counter.Jubilee glanced at her before smiling at the customer in front of her. Once she gave the older woman her cinnamon roll and coffee, she replied, “He’s doing his job, you know.”Megan made a face. If doing his job meant being a giant pain in the ass, then Caleb was doing a great job.She watched as he leaned against a light post, his hands in his pockets. He looked deceptively nonchalant, but she knew he was capable of moving at lightning speed if necessary. When she’d come to the bakery that morning, he’d already been outside, sitting in his car and watching over the bakery and the neighborhood overall. She didn’t really understand how this was going to help them uncover the perpetrator, but then again, if it kept her bakery safe from another robbery, she wouldn’t complain. At least not too much.“I heard about what happened,” the next customer said, a young woman with bouncy
The Very Thought of You: The Thorntons Book 2 Chapter 5
Caleb leaned his head against The Rise and Shine’s brick wall and restrained himself from banging his head against said wall. It would certainly be less painful than whatever it was he was doing with Megan Flannigan.It’d been two weeks since the robbery, and although there had yet to be any real leads as to the perpetrator, Caleb was still tasked with watching the bakery and the surrounding businesses. They had gotten more than one tip of another possible robbery in the vicinity, and as a result, Caleb’s presence was supposed to deter any more crime occurring.So he told himself. He rather felt like he was like some guardian angel, except the woman he was watching wanted nothing to do with him.He let out a breath. It was his own fault, really. He and Megan had always been at odds—even when they’d been kissing.Now he really wanted to bang his head against the wall.He’d rejected Megan when she’d tried to kiss him after he’d arrested her. He had to: she was underage—albeit a mont
The Very Thought of You: The Thorntons Book 2 Chapter 6
Megan felt Jubilee’s gaze on her as she returned to the bakery. She refused to blush, or act like anything had happened. So what that she caught Megan kissing Caleb? It wasn’t a crime. She could kiss whomever she wanted. She could kiss Caleb in her office and Jubilee couldn’t say anything that would embarrass her because it wasn’t a big deal.“Jubilee, can you go finish cleaning up the kitchen for now, especially the oven? We don’t want a repeat of today.”Jubilee gave her a look that spoke volumes, but since she was a smart girl, she kept her mouth shut. She did, however, give Megan an amused smile, which only made Megan scowl.Megan served the customers for the next two hours until closing. Jubilee periodically came back to the front for something, although Megan wondered if she were just doing it to set her on edge.I kissed Caleb. Again. It’s fine. I’m not freaking out.She told herself that over and over again, but it didn’t convince her. She was freaking out. She was freakin
The Very Thought of You: The Thorntons Book 2 Chapter 7
Megan looked over her shoulder for the third time as she walked home. The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end, and she told herself she was imagining things. It didn’t help that she was alone and already on edge. Walking faster, she urged her pounding heart to calm itself. Why would somebody be following you in a place like Fair Haven? she asked herself. This town was safety incarnate. Crime rarely happened, and Megan walked home by herself all the time.Then again, robberies were once uncommon, until recently.She walked faster. When she heard a rustle in a nearby shrub, she almost jumped out of her skin before seeing a skinny cat dart across the street. She inhaled a deep breath.But the feeling that someone was following her only continued as she walked home. When she heard footsteps behind her, she whirled around, but nobody was there. She peered into a nearby yard, but she could only see the usual types of things in anybody’s front yard: pots for gardening, children’s to
The Very Thought of You: The Thorntons Book 2 Chapter 8
Caleb heard the water turn on in Megan’s bathroom, and he almost groaned aloud. Was she taking a bath? A shower? Either way, she’d be naked, and only a room away. He gritted his teeth as the inevitable images of her wet, naked, and flushed from the heat of her bath filled his mind.“Don’t do this right now,” he muttered to himself. Gary swiveled his ears at the sound, especially when Caleb stopped petting him. He continued the petting, mostly because he wasn’t sure the cat wouldn’t get its revenge on his balls if he did something it didn’t like.He hadn’t told Megan he was staying here just so he could be a creep. This was what he told himself, but he knew that deep down, he’d wanted to be the one to stay here. To protect her from the threat outside, and, yes, to just be in the same place as her. It was like a sickness. He’d already kissed her this week, and now he was going to be on her couch all night while she lay in her own bed. What did she wear to bed? Pajamas? Lingerie? Nothin
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