A Bride for the Mountain Man by Tracy Madison

Author:Tracy Madison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

For the second day in a row, Liam woke up grumpy. Today, though, he couldn’t place blame on a Swedish pop group or Meredith’s choice to play “Mamma Mia” at a louder than decent volume. The house was whisper silent when he opened his eyes, still more dark than light outside and as had already become the norm, his dogs were nowhere to be seen.

They were, without a doubt, curled up with Goldilocks. And even the absence of his traitorous dogs didn’t account for his sour mood. If anything, he figured Max and Maggie had the better end of the sleeping deal. How could he fault them for that?

Punching his pillow, Liam rolled over and closed his eyes. He tried to force his body to relax and his brain to stop its incessant thinking in the hope that maybe, just maybe, he could catch a tad more sleep.

He hadn’t slept well. Every hour or so, he’d wake and thoughts of the woman downstairs would be merged with Christy, with that god-awful loss, and he’d toss and turn for another thirty minutes before drifting off again. He hated that.

It had taken so long to come to terms with losing his wife and child. So damn long he’d worked to make peace with what couldn’t be changed. And now, a few days with Meredith and all that muck had churned to the surface.

That accounted for his bad mood. He never wanted to return to those days of barely being able to breathe without feeling that sharp, incapacitating pain.

Very purposefully, Liam turned his thoughts away from Christy, away from Meredith and instead focused on the day ahead. The activities that required his attention.

He couldn’t really do a lot more workwise until power was restored. The generator kept the house livable, but the PCs were a major power drain and he wouldn’t risk developing prints. Yesterday, when he’d sequestered himself in his office, he’d spent the majority of his time organizing the digital photographs on his laptop until the battery had gotten too low to continue. And then, he’d spent another solid hour dozing in his chair. That was why he hadn’t heard Meredith’s knock, why he hadn’t known she’d left him a meal outside his door.

And that was all it took for his mind to once again focus on what he did not want to focus on. Which also meant that any additional sleep was out of the question. He was up for the duration, which meant he might as well—

Music.

ABBA again interrupted his thoughts, and he felt his mouth stretch into a smile. A wide enough one that his cheeks hurt from the effort. And the fact that the smile came on its own accord, so quickly and so naturally, didn’t escape his analytical brain.

This woman was something special. Someone special.

And that made her even more dangerous. To his peace of mind, to the lifestyle that had saved him from being buried alive, to holding on to his sanity

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