Catching Feelings

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Here is what I know about my feelings for Douglas Fraser. They are silly. Hopeless. Entirely one-sided. And I’ve been carrying them around for so long now that I barely question them anymore.

We both live in the small Scottish seaside town of Ardmara, but Douglas has never really seen me. Not properly. To him, I’m just the librarian who helps his twins find books and pretends not to notice when they wreak havoc in the children’s section.

He has no idea I notice everything about him. The breadth of his shoulders. The roughness of his hands. The scent of salt and sea that clings to him after a day on the water.

Then I run a hire boat aground on some rocks, and Douglas has to fish me out of the situation, along with what remains of my dignity.

After that, he starts noticing me. Not as Ellie from the library, not as part of the background, but as a woman. A woman he watches with an intensity that heats my skin and scrambles my thoughts.

For the first time, I let myself hope.

But hope is dangerous when the man you want has spent years putting everyone else first. He’s made duty and self-sacrifice a way of life.

Is he even capable of choosing himself, let alone me?