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Clouds rolled in over Hartwell thatFortunately, they didn’t look heavy with rain Overcast days were the nor as it stayed dry, we’d have no meltdowns from Kell

Carryingkit in one hand, the cloak for Maleficent (I’d had last- to do on the hem) in my other, plus my purse, car keys, and a bottle of water, I clattered down the stairwell offlustered Winter Carnival was a big day for h town first before the festival kicked off, so I was on call as one of the seamstresses and walked behind the floats That meant I also had to be in costume, so I dressed as Snow White After the parade, I had to hurry to the top of Main Street, which we closed to set up a market My stall was in thatme out this year, so she’d set up the stall for me while I was parade-bound

I wondered if I’d see Michael today

Nope

Don’t think about him!

Space, he’d said He was giving me space

Well, he certainly had done that The only time I’d seen him in the last teeks was the previous Friday at Cooper’s He’d been off duty and no surprise he and Cooper got along like a house on fire Bailey, Jess, and E, he was goddamn hard to resist I’d never seen Emery stutter and stammer so much in my life

And other than a few flirty comments ood night to everyone but stopped by my side He’d looked at ently across ht, dahlin”

Unfair!

He ht as well have kissed me for the way my body reacted to that simple touch

Oh, and the girls swooned all over that

Bailey was dying to interrogatemyself to explain

I hadn’t seen Michael since that night, but Cooper re for the sheriff’s department meant Michael wasn’t only a cop in Hartwell He was a cop in the whole county, and although the sheriff’s departer towns on the west side of the county Jeff had sent Michael to assist the police departation over a suspicious suicide

I guessed that it was keeping hi me space

The whole giving- iving me space