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“I know,” I said with a smile.
Natalie looked up at the clock. “Okay, I have to go. I’m learning a new way to turn a sock heel today.”
After she’d moved back to Castleton, Natalie had taken up knitting as a hobby, and she was getting really good at it. I fully expected to receive a sweater this Christmas, and she’d already given me a scarf and a pair of socks that I slid on when the floors were cold made with pink and white speckled yarn.
“See you later?” I asked.
“Yeah, maybe on Thursday? I mean, I’ll probably see you at the bakery before then, but you know,” she said.
I waved goodbye and went to take my stack of books to the desk to pay for them.
Beth Carter-Bowerman, the head librarian, greeted me with a smile.
“You got any requests for me today?” she asked as she swiped my card and put my books into the library tote bag I’d brought with me.
“Not today,” I said. When I’d first moved here, I’d been unable to find a lot of the books I wanted to read at the library, so I’d put in a ton of requests, and Beth had ordered a lot of them, and it turned out I wasn’t the only one in Castleton who liked the same books.
“Well, keep the recommendations coming. I mean, you should have your own display at this point,” she said, laughing.
“You could do that. A reader recommends shelf, or something. Let people talk about their favorite books,” I said as she handed me the straps of the bag.
“That’s a fantastic idea, Charli. Let me see if it would work and I’ll be in touch.”
I blushed from the praise. “Yeah, no problem.”
I left the desk and started to head out the door but was distracted by someone leaning against a shelf and flipping through a book.
Alivia.
This was just getting strange. First, I’d run into her on the nature trail, now I was seeing her at the library. She’d been here for four months and I’d never seen her, now she was everywhere.
I managed to sneak by her and out the door without her seeing me.
Part of me wished I’d gone back and looked at what she’d been reading.
