A Texas Soldier's Christmas by Cathy Gillen Thacker

Author:Cathy Gillen Thacker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Nora was ready for something, all right.

The close proximity to Zane, coupled with their half-dressed states, had her thinking all kinds of wild things.

With a fast-asleep Liam still snuggled in his arms, Zane led the way up the stairs to the second floor of the A-frame. It was just as she recalled, with one exception. The full-size crib, rocking chair and changing table in one corner. She stared in shock. “You set up a nursery?”

Zane shrugged amiably. “I thought Liam might appreciate a comfortable place to be when he is out here on the ranch.”

“It’s...amazing.” And definitely not the actions of a man who had one foot out the door.

He turned to her, exuding the thoughtfulness she so admired. “If you want, we could let him test it out right now.”

“You want to put him down?”

He smiled at her incredulous look. “For the night. If you’d like to stay.”

Nora edged closer, trying not to let on what his low, sexy voice did to her. Her heart did not melt, her insides did not turn to mush just listening to him!

“I don’t have any nightclothes.” It was one thing to make love on impulse and have him stay on for a few hours, holding her in his arms, and then slip out before dawn. That was simply taking their relationship moment by moment, a feat they had done many times before. But it was something else entirely to plan so deliberately to bring her—and Liam—into his day-to-day life.

He stepped closer still, inundating her with his steady masculine warmth. “You can borrow something of mine to wear.” Leaning down, he continued softly, persuasively, “I’ve got diapers and Liam’s formula, too.”

Aware how very close she was to falling all the way in love with him, she released a reluctant, admiring sigh. “You really are prepared.” And kind and thoughtful. Capable and commanding...

“Hopeful, always, when it comes to you, and now Liam. And yeah, darlin’—” he paused, a determined, sexy glint in his eyes “—I am. So what do you say?” he asked huskily, “Want to spend your first night ever at the No Name?”

At the moment, Nora couldn’t think of a better Christmas gift to herself. And him. “Yes,” she whispered back, knowing no matter what the future held, there would never be a man more perfect for her than Zane.

She tiptoed closer to the crib. Beckoned Zane to follow. Her gaze fell to her contentedly drowsing son. Although she knew firsthand there was no cozier place to be than snuggled against Zane’s warm body, she also knew her son would sleep more soundly in a crib. “Let’s put—” our son, she almost said “—Liam to bed.”

Oblivious to her near mistake, Zane lowered Liam slowly to the mattress and eased his hands out beneath him. With her at his side, he kept the other resting ever so slightly on her son’s tiny chest until he was sure that Liam was still snoozing.

Contentment flowing between them, they backed away.

Zane took Nora’s hand in his.

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