No Other Love (A Walker Island Romance, Book 2)

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other, underneath it all. And the bird observatory has been a really good addition to the island.” He brushed a lock of hair away from her eyes before saying, “There’s one more thing I want to show you.”
    Morgan nodded, although actually it felt a little strange to see these changes in the one place that she'd always believed would never change.
    Brian led the way back down the hill to the old oak tree at the heart of town, and she looked around, wondering what could possibly be different here. “This all looks the same. What did you want to show me that’s so different?”
    Brian drew her over to the tree. There in the bark was a heart, not carved with any initials, but simply with the words You and Me . It had been the lyrics of the song playing back at their prom when he'd pulled her into his arms and kissed her with all the love in his heart.
    “Some things are supposed to change,” Brian told her, his voice as serious as she'd ever heard it. “But some things never, ever will.”

CHAPTER TEN
     
    The next morning, Morgan drove out to the Walker plot, determined that this time she wasn’t going to let herself get distracted or pulled into any other “adventures” with Brian. They would simply finish clearing and fertilizing the areas where they would be growing new plants. That was it. In fact, the moment they were done, Morgan was going to go home, lock herself inside and not come out.
    Especially not for sentimental trips around town where she would spend half the time thinking that a gorgeous, off-limits man was about to kiss her, only to be disappointed when he didn’t.
    When Brian had shown her the tree with the love heart carved in it, Morgan had stood there, desperate for the feel of his lips on hers again...but all he'd done was bring her back home, leaving her at the door, not even coming inside to say hi to her family. Certainly not giving her the kind of good-bye kiss that he used to.
    She should have been happy about that. Should have been glad that he wasn't forcing her into a situation where she'd have to push him away to make sure they didn't end up hurting each other again when she left. But she didn’t feel happy or glad about it at all.
    Why did everything have to be so complicated?
    Pulling a few weeds might have helped to deal with the sheer frustration of being around Brian and not knowing what to feel, but they’d done a good job clearing nearly all of them away the previous day. Another thing that was obviously good but that she could have done without right then.
    And when Brian finally did arrive, walking over to her with Natalie and Tad beside him, the way he said, “Hi, Morgan,” sounded far too smug to her ears. Almost as if he knew just how badly he'd twisted her into knots by coming close...but not nearly close enough. Only Brian would have fought for her in such a sneaky, brilliant way, by making her want and need and desire him until she was nearly bursting with it!
    “Hi, everyone,” she said in as chipper and easy a voice as she could manage. It wouldn't do, not a bit, for Brian to think that she'd spent every single second since yesterday thinking about him. “Looks like we're ready to fertilize today.”
    “Mr. Russell had us study up on the science of fertilization,” Natalie told her.
    Tad nodded. “It's actually really cool how it all works.”
    Of course Brian had been able to turn the work her interns were doing into a really interesting science lesson. Darn him, why did he have to be so perfect? And gorgeous? And...
    Enough already . She needed to keep her focus on the important job at hand, not on how much she wanted the one man she could never be with.
    Morgan set off for the other side of the garden—as far as she could from Brian and all the temptation he presented—and when Natalie came with her, they poured the fertilizer onto areas that weren’t already thick with useful plants, then raked it into the soil. With Natalie talking a mile a minute,

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