When noon came and went, she walked down to the Town Square. Cole hadn’t called to further discuss their lunch plans this morning. Maybe he just expected her to meet him at the angel monument. She hoped she’d either find him sitting on the bench near the monument, or maybe walking down the sidewalk toward the library, but the park bench stood empty. She scanned the streets, expecting his disreputable looking truck to be parked somewhere along Main Street, but she didn’t see it. Thinking that he might be running late, she sat and waited. When the courthouse clock tolled two, she returned to the library. She spent the rest of the day with half her mind on her work, the other half tuned to any sign of Cole. She didn’t even have the board meeting to distract her because Mrs. McKay had postponed it a day. With all the reports completed the night before, all she could think about was Cole. Where could he be? As the sun began to set, Josie kept glancing from her computer screen to her window, but he never came.
