CHAPTER 1
Her head was reeling from what had just happened on her front porch, it had already been a massive night and things had just got a whole lot more complicated.
When she walked back into her room to the man she had finally admitted that she had feelings for, he looked up at her with that same crooked smirk that he always wore, only something had changed, his eyes were softer, content and trusting. He had moved up into her bed, from the floor, and as she entered he pulled back the covers for her to join him, back in the ecstasy they had been just a few moments ago before the whole evening had been thrown into the eye of a tornado.
She couldn't help but admit as she looked at Wade that he was beautiful, she had always known he was hot, but she saw so much more than that now, maybe it was the way the candle light was casting gentle shadows over each of his very finely tuned muscles, maybe it was the way his skin glistened with sweat on this balmy evening or the stubble that always graced his jawline and the fact that it was actually a lot softer on her skin than she imagined it would be, but it was like someone had finally taken a blindfold off her and she could deny it no longer.
Zoe realised that she had been standing in the door way looking at him for too long without saying anything and his expression was starting to change, the smirk remained but she could see the worry in his eyes that maybe she had changed her mind, as he said
"Like what you see, Doc?"
She just smiled at him, crossed the room and crawled back into his arms, into the first place, she truly felt at home since she had moved to Bluebell all those months ago. She realised that this was not a new sensation and that each time he had scooped her up into his strong arms, like after she was bitten by the snake and when he whisked her out of Lavon's homecoming party, she had felt totally safe, protected and loved… home.
She felt his warm chest heave a sigh of relief under her cheek and his long fingers snaked their way up her back, tangling into her hair as he gently nuzzled and kissed the top of her head.
How could she now tell this man that the knock at the door wasn't Lavon, their friend and Landlord checking on her because of the storm as they thought, but was in fact his best friend, the guy he had known since he was 4,one of the few guys that knew the real him, all the crap he went through with his Dad, and one of the few people who really knew how he felt about Zoe, the 'Golden Boy' had just turned up on her door step, through the storm, having just walked out on his own wedding, and confessed is love for his girl, and then kissed her, all while Wade was laying blissfully in her bed, where she wished now that she had stayed.
As she felt his breathing deepen and his heart rate slowing beneath her and his hand gently coming to a halt in her hair, she knew that he was falling contentedly asleep, she could not stop her mind from whirling with the realisation of what had happened with her and Wade, mixed with the shock of George Tucker walking out on his wedding and kissing her so brazenly.
She knew that things in Bluebell were never going to be the same again and somehow she knew that people were going to get hurt and she had a feeling that the town was going to blame her, she found herself nestling closer into Wade trying to shake the thoughts but knowing full well that she wouldn't be sleeping much tonight.