They hung up and Ransom looked around the barn,wondering if he dared go online to see what she was talking about.
It’s probably just publicity stuff for the show,he told himself as he searched her name, unable to stop himself.
The first link that popped up led him to a tabloid site.
On-screen romance denied.
Off-screen romance spied!
Are you mourning the death of Ridley Hospital’s BeeBee Evans as much as we are? And with it, the loss of a powerful coupling of sweet BeeBee with dreamy Dr. Silverman that was teased in many of the season’s earlier episodes?
Well, take heart, dear reader. The actors may have taken matters into their own hands!
Hailey Sinclair and Caspian Thorne were spotted earlier today in a snowy small town worthy of a Christmas movie, embracing at the train station like long-lost lovers.
Are wedding bells in their future?
A visit to a florist, and private tasting at a local café sure has our hearts pounding!
Ransom’s stomach twisted as he scanned the casual photos someone had taken of Hailey and her co-star smiling at each other over a table at Mal’s place, walking out of the flower shop with their matching red scarveslifting in the breeze, and holding each other on the train platform while snow fell around them.
I should have known,he thought to himself furiously.What’s wrong with me? How could I ever think she would want to be with me?
He shoved his phone back in his pocket, but the images were already seared into his mind.
18
HAILEY
Hailey stood at the window of the big house, watching the snow fall outside.
This was her first night sleeping at the big house instead of the little cottage, and it was comforting to think that if she got snowed in, at least she would have plenty of projects to work on here.
She was already busy planning Caspian and Regina’s party, and Caspian probably hadn’t even made it home yet. She had a handwritten list of ideas for him and she had been cataloguing everything else she wanted to do in the big house to see if it would be possible to offer them bedrooms for other guests to stay in, not just the two of them.
A particularly heavy gust of wind rattled the window sash and the draft was strong enough to lift her hair.
“Wow,” she said to herself, heading to the kitchen to see what she could do about dinner.
After years in the city, she had forgotten about drafty windows and the need to dig out after a storm. She waspretty sure she had spotted a shovel in the barn earlier this week.
Before she even made it to the kitchen, the windows rattled again and the power went out with a pop.
“Not again,”she whispered.
But it was no big deal Hailey decided. She wasn’t going to bother Ransom in the middle of a snowstorm. And she was pretty sure there were flashlights in the barn and maybe even a propane heater.
“Here we go,” she told herself, using her phone flashlight to guide her through the house.
She pulled on her boots and a coat, willing herself not to get freaked out by the darkness. Living this far off the beaten path, it was only natural that the power might go out from time to time. She was just going to have to get used to it.
The door practically blew off its hinges when she opened it. She had to cling to the handle to keep it from banging against the side of the house.
Closing it carefully, she reminded herself that this wasn’t a race. She could take her time getting to the barn and back.
It’s okay to have a snowy adventure.
Ducking her head against the wind and driving snow, she plodded up the drive to the big red barn. The snow was already up to her ankles and the rush of the wind so strong that she couldn’t hear her footsteps.
