on what happened here?”
“It’s not that.” She sighed. “But as I told you—and you’ve already seen for yourself—people aren’t too happy with me and my plans for this house. The fact that you’re running around town doing things I don’t know anything about won’t exactly make me look any better in anyone’s eyes. You should have seen the way the librarian looked at me when she thought I didn’t know you’d been there.”
“If it was anything like the way she looked at me, she probably looked like she’d spent the day sucking on lemons.”
In spite of herself, Maggie had to chuckle at the accuracy of the image. “You’ve got that right.”
“Then I am sorry,” he said. “I never meant to cause you any trouble.”
The sincerity in his voice was unmistakable. Staring into his serious expression, she believed him. Regardless of the end result, he really hadn’t meant to cause her trouble. And considering how few people could say the same at the moment, she couldn’t help but be affected by the words.
Uncomfortable with the sudden, pathetic wave of gratitude that washed over her, Maggie cleared her throat. “So what did you find out?”
“Not much. I didn’t really have any time to read any of the news stories. I just printed out as many as I could and thought I’d read them tonight.”
“Is that really what you want to do with your free time?”
“What else am I going to do? It’s a small town. I don’t really know anybody else and nobody seems interested in getting to know me. What about you? Find what you were looking for?”
She fought the urge to fidget. “I, uh, made some copies of my own. I didn’t really get a chance to look at them at the library.”
The gleam that entered his eyes told her he recognized she’d planned to do the same thing she’d just tried to talk him out of. To his credit, he didn’t bring up her hypocrisy. “Okay, so why don’t we go over those stories?”
Her eyes flared in surprise. “Together?”
“Sure,” he said, as if it was the most logical thing in the world. “It’ll be getting dark soon and I figure we’ll be calling it quits for the day, right? No point in doing it separately if we’re going to be doing the same thing. Besides, maybe one of us found something the other didn’t.”
He was right, of course. If they planned to spend the evening doing the same thing, there was no reason not to do it together.
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