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I loved that answer “Catcher in the Rye fan Me, too”

She srin from her

There was so in the back of her eyes, that made me sad, and I liked that I’d made her smile

I glanced down through the store to the frontto see the rain had started co to be busy anytirab a book and sit by the fire?”

Eaze to the s and I watched her chew on her lip as she thought about it “I probably shouldn’t,” she muttered

“If soo help them”

It took her longer than it should have to consider it, alave uess it wouldn’t do any harm”

“Not at all,” I said encouragingly

A few minutes later she was curled up on the sofa across froet sucked into her book from the moment she opened it In the tiers Emery was immersed in the world of the story in her hands

It tookaround me

But not Emery

I had the fanciful thought that she was escaping, and that she’d escaped into pages and words sodown the rabbit hole was like second nature to her I wondered what she was escaping from

This curiosity of rumbled to myself as I bit into the haht ht et wrapped up in the mystery behind the shy sadness of Emery Saunders And ining that everyone here had a tragedy hiding behind them

Maybe even Cooper Lawson

Don’t think about him!

I had no time for his kind of temptation

On that thought, I stared down at the pages of ht up in fiction

After dinner at the inn that night I sat by the fireplace in the front roo to catch Bailey before I went to bed and aiting on the diners to clear out so I could talk to her

Staring into the fla , peaceful day I could re time

E by her fireplace, but I didn’t need her to Assad about her, there was also soht it funny that I’d experienced the same comfortable silence with Cooper on the sa with anyone before

I left E to return before my vacation was over That sadness I saw in the back of her eyes seeood-bye to me

And there it was Despite ued by Emery Saunders and I couldn’t make myself not be

And that intrigue only reht me to Hartwell in the first place

I’d decided to ask Bailey about her after all

As the last custo the as they left and a few seconds later Bailey flopped down on the sofa beside me

She looked exhausted

I handed her rateful but very tired slass back to me “Thanks”

“You’re welco hours every day “

Bailey shook her head “No Like I said, I had a deputy er and orked around one another I used to have a day or two off, if you can believe it”

“You need your own vacation”

“Yes, yes, I do” She grinned at hten you away today?”

I sht in it outside of Cooper’s The man hih for me to venture back outside”

Sitting up straighter, Bailey eyed me with a mischievous smile “What did you think of Cooper?”

I could spot a aze “He didn’t saydisinterest

“That’s because he’s a good listener”

“You know him well?”

“I’ve known hied rin “Divorced”

I laughed “You are so not subtle”

“What’s the point in subtlety?” Bailey studied le?”

I opened hed “It’s complicated”

“I’ll take that as you’re single”

“How so?”

“If you were really certain of this guy, whoever he is, your ansould have been a straightforward no”

I guessed that was true enough

It was tie Beckwith this”

“Yeah”

“There was a reason” I turned on the sofa to face her “I actually don’t know George The reason I know of him is because I found letters in a book at the prison They were addressed to George in 1976” ed that answer “Catcher in the Rye fan Me, too”