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Автор: Victoria Pade
Издательство: HarperCollins
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new restaurant. Plus the government building/police station had a more modern feel to it.

      But from the northwest corner of that block, where the old four-story, redbrick former mercantile had been turned into the medical facility, all the rest of the way up Main, the buildings were pretty quaint, Cassie had to admit.

      Quaint in the best sense of the word, though, she thought as she pointed out businesses, shops and stores that occupied the two-and three-storied, primarily brick structures that gave Northbridge an old-fashioned, country-town feel. Quaint in the best sense of the word when it came to the awnings and overhangs and farreaching eaves that provided shade and character to most of the edifices. Quaint in the best sense when it came to more of those same town square pole lights lining the sidewalks on both sides of the street, each of them circled with flower boxes that were decorated for the season—planted with white and yellow mums now for autumn—lending that homey, small-town feeling.

      Cassie and Joshua weren’t the only post-meet-and-greet attendees to graduate to the stroll along Main Street. Several other faces from the college’s Parents’ Week orientation were out and about, too, to mingle with a few Northbridgers.

      Smiles and greetings were exchanged along the way but no one seemed to think any more about Joshua’s real identity now than they had earlier, and so Cassie and Joshua were able to take their walk without incident.

      They did, however, encounter Roy Webber, the local Mr. Fix-it, and one of the town’s biggest busybodies, and in introducing Joshua to him, Cassie included the cover story she’d agreed to.

      It clearly pleased Joshua, who nudged her with his shoulder once Roy Webber had moved on and said, “Thanks for getting that out there.”

      “By tomorrow noon, the whole town will have heard it,” she informed Joshua. “Roy Webber is a bigger gossip than any woman I’ve ever met.”

      “Perfect,” Joshua said with satisfaction. “I owe you.”

      “Yes, you do,” Cassie said from atop her high horse as they made a U-turn at the northernmost end of Main.

      They’d gone up an incline to reach what was the formal entrance to Northbridge and as they crossed from the gas station to the bus station, Joshua paused halfway between the two to peer down at the view of nearly the entire town from that vantage point.

      “This is nice,” he mused.

      “Quaint,” she repeated a bit facetiously.

      “I like quaint. I don’t know what made you think that was an insult,” he insisted.

      Cassie knew she could be overly sensitive when it came to things like that. She admitted to herself that she was probably being harder on Joshua than he deserved for something that was a part of her own baggage. So she tried to get out of the course she’d set with some semblance of aplomb.

      “Okay, I’m sorry if I misunderstood.”

      “Apology accepted,” he decreed as if something about her amused him.

      They finished to cross the street but Joshua continued to look out at the town, this time focusing on Adz, which stood in the center of the block at the base of the hill.

      “Did you say that that Adz place belongs to your brother?”

      “I did,” Cassie confirmed as they went on at a leisurely pace.

      “And it’s a pub and restaurant?”

      “Right.” Cassie briefly considered asking Joshua if he wanted to cross back again and go in for a drink, but the idea of introducing him to Ad and having to explain why she was with Joshua in a social situation wasn’t something she was eager to do. So she didn’t make the suggestion.

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