07 It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis [Jill Shalvis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Lucky Harbor
ISBN: 9781455521111
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2013-05-27T22:00:00+00:00

2

Callie ran to her cabin, mind whirling. Three or four months. Was he crazy? Jake Rawlins was a city man, through and through, and a firefighter who loved his work. She knew those two things about him at least.

Clearly, he’d been messing with her, just to drive her crazy. She stepped inside her cabin, and let herself be soothed by the interior. She’d painted the walls in the color of sand, with adobe-colored trim, and had hung a few tapestries she’d picked up from the occasional art shows on the Indian reservations around the area. Everything was clean and in its place. “Anal,” Richard had called her fondly, and she had to agree. She washed up and changed quickly, and then stepped back outside into what had begun as such a glorious day. She inhaled the fresh, crisp air that held a hint of the warmth to come, and looked at the row of cabins. Tucker had the one next to hers. Then followed Stone’s, Eddie’s, Marge and her husband Lou’s, and lastly, the newly hired Amy’s. There wasn’t an extra cabin for Jake.

Instead of crossing the poor grass, which had taken a beating that day, she took the path up to the big house, wondering what to do. There were twelve guest rooms on the second floor, all booked by the Japanese businessmen coming tomorrow, each excited about their first time out in the wilderness.

Which left Jake out in the cold.

Or sharing with Tucker—

That would have to do. Callie could handle him there for several nights, but several months…the thought boggled her mind. She wondered how Tucker would feel about it.

She stopped to check on the horses. They had twenty in all, though four belonged to her and the crew, and one was Richard’s old horse, leaving fifteen for their guests. Most of those fifteen would be riding out with their guests tomorrow on a mock roundup that wasn’t really a mock roundup at all. They really did need to gather up their small but valuable herd of cattle and get them back to the main arena area for their inoculations before shipping a portion of them off to market. What the businessmen couldn’t handle, Eddie, Stone, and Tucker sure as hell could, with Lou’s help if they needed it, so Callie wasn’t worried.

Not about that anyway.

She checked on the poor hens next, fully aware she was stalling. But the pigs had riled the hens up, and many were still clucking and fussing and pulling at their own feathers. “Poor babies.” She scattered out some feed as a treat. “That was worse than letting in a handful of roosters, wasn’t it?”

She glanced at the big house, painfully aware of the rooster in her hen house. With a grim sigh, she passed by the pigs, all now perfectly content to be in their place, and looking quite innocent. “Don’t think you’re off the hook,” she whispered to the littlest one, then headed up the porch steps, wondering what Jake was up to, what he’d really come for.

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