Chapter Six
Two cottages of Graham Reynolds’s design were being built on the back acres of Wild Rose property, tucked into the woods beyond the Bed & Breakfast’s main grounds. In the summer with the trees fully leafed out, Hallie couldn’t see much of the construction from the upstairs of the main house. What she could occasionally see was the muscled, bared tanned shoulders of Alex Lonnigan as he moved between the two houses. Her once arch rival had developed into quite a man in the years between their last meeting and the present. Oozing virility, she suspected that he was surrounded by female admirers who liked earthy construction type guys, with long hair, tight asses, broad shoulders and what she’d always known to be penetrating, dark eyes. Though he worked in a laborer’s job, he
