My Missing Puzzle Piece (Creekside Falls #1) Read Online Free Page B

off as a couple and had stayed together. It wasn’t like that for her; she cared about him of course but only saw him as a friend. She hadn’t seen since him or anyone else from their group since sophomore year of college. When she reached Rob, she gave him a big hug and realized even more how long it had been since they had seen each other or talked.
    As she hugged him, she wondered what Trevor was thinking, she couldn’t imagine it would make him jealous but she hoped that it would. Elle said, “Hey stranger, how are you?”
    Rob said, “Hey to you too! I’ve been good. What have you been up to? What are you doing here?”
    “I’m doing well, that doesn’t seem like the best answer though when it’s been so long. I’ve been running my own business for the past few years. How about you?”
    He started to answer, and she sensed him hesitate, finally he said, “I got into landscaping a few years ago and really liked it so here I am now, I’m a route manager for Trevor doing something I really like. I’ve been good too, man I can’t believe how fast time flies.”
    “What are you doing here?” Rob asked through partially narrowed eyes.
    She softly laughed at his cool tone, but answered him anyway; “I’m here to help Mr. Cavanaugh withsome organizational strategies.” That was the answer she always gave if she was ever asked what she was doing for a particular company because she often dealt with sensitive issues for her clients.
    They continued talking for a few minutes about former classmates and which ones of their old group they still talked to. As they talked Elle took in two things. One, Rob hadn’t changed at all, he was 5’10”, with strawberry blonde hair, light brown eyes, and was slightly muscular but still pretty scrawny, she was surprised he hadn’t bulked up more given his line of work. The second thing she noticed was Trevor watching them the whole time with a scowl on his face, it made her happy to think the interaction between her and Rob was making him jealous.
    Trevor stood straighter as he watched the two of them talking. He couldn’t believe she knew Rob, what the heck was that connection he thought to himself...? Trevor felt annoyed and angry, and quickly realized he was jealous. Which was crazy since he didn’t have a right to be jealous but it was showing its teeth full force, he wanted to walk up to Elle and claim her as his but knew it wasn’t what he should do. As Rob and Elle talked he felt like an outsider but couldn’t walk away even though he was pretty sure Elle could find her way or Rob could show her. The thought hit him with more anger and jealousy than was probably appropriate. After a few minutes, it looked like Elle was finally saying her goodbyes and started walking back towards him. He didn’t know if he should ask her about Rob, but something in him was pushing him to do so.
    As Elle walked back to Trevor she realized just how handsome he was and how the attraction to him was somehow stronger than last time. She also saw just how different physically he was from Rob, who wasn’t even her type although they had dated; Trevor was definitely her type. The two men really were night and day from each other. His broad shoulders were squared off tightly, his arms crossed, but the scowl was gone from his face. His lips were now in a tight straight line, which to her did nothing to complement those gorgeous lips.
    Elle approached Trevor and said, “Okay now we can get down to business. Sorry about that.”
    Trevor couldn’t hold back or hide his jealousy, he knew it would show in his voice, but at the moment he didn’t care. He had to ask, “What was that about? How do you know Rob?”
    She bit her cheek slightly to hide the grin caused by the jealous tone in Trevor’s voice. “It was about catching up with an old friend, if you must know. Now that you’ve pried let’s get to work.”
    Elle turned to walk away and Trevor smelled her amazing vanilla perfume.