Chapter 3
Laura did her best to push down her absurdly strong reaction to speaking with Connor, touching his hand. Reasons why it didn’t matter floated through her mind.
He was going back to Chicago, and soon.
She got the strong impression from how he looked at his phone that he wasn’t exactly single.
She herself wasn’t exactly single, either. Jim might be as bored in their relationship as she was, but that didn’t change the fact that they were indeed in it.
No, she needed to do her job, welcome their new residents, and move on. The town hadn’t hired her before she even finished her degree just to pay her to flirt with unavailable guys.
She’d almost forgotten asking Evan Griffith a question when he answered.
“I’d love to keep teaching, sure. Stay involved for certain. The early part
