Born to be My Baby by Lori Ryan & Kay Manis

Author:Lori Ryan & Kay Manis [Ryan, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780999713907
Publisher: RMI Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-01-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Maggie slid back the huge doors of the barn and stepped inside. Tugging her sweater wrap tighter against her shoulders, she shined the flashlight into the dimly lit area.

Shawn and his crew had already done so much to the interior, but they still had a way to go if they wanted to begin renting out the venue in six months.

“Ben,” Maggie hollered. Aunt Sally and Valerie hadn’t seen Ben in hours. As the sun set behind Canyon Creek Mountain they’d each been more concerned when calls to his cell phone rolled to voice mail. She’d overheard him talking to Emmett earlier this morning about checking out the progress in the barn. Given the fact Ben wasn’t overly keen on the construction, she hoped he wasn’t out here halting the progress Shawn and his team had made.

“Ben,” she called again, shining the flashlight.

“Up here,” Ben called.

Maggie focused the beam of light toward his voice and gasped when she noticed he was precariously perched on top of a ladder.

“Ben!” she shrieked. “What are you doing?” She raced toward the ladder as if he would fall without her help. Reality was, he’d probably been out here a while without any life-saving intervention on her part.

“I’m just putting in the last window before the storm blows in.” Ben nodded around the upper walls of the barn. The ceilings were nearly three stories high, to accommodate for the bales of hay decades previously. She knew the interior designer had wanted to bring in more natural lighting and John and she had drawn up designs to include lots of windows, some at eye level, some up higher where Ben now stood.

“It’s almost dark,” Maggie warned. “And it’s freezing in here.” She shuddered.

“God, Maggie, you sound like my mother.”

“Well,” she shrugged, “I happen to love your mother, so I’ll take that as a compliment.”

“Take it however you want, sweetheart.”

Maggie’s heart skipped a beat at the term of endearment. He was just being sweet. She tried to remind herself. Images of him whispering those words in her ear as they lay naked, tangled together, floated through her mind.

“Maggie.”

She jumped, her thoughts evaporating.

“Shine the light a little to the left, would you?” Ben nodded to the window.

“Oh, uh, yeah, sure.”

Ben chuckled. “Where was your head just now?”

“Nowhere.” She ducked her face to hide the blush. “So, what are you doing out here helping with the barn? I thought you were completely opposed to the idea.”

Ben hammered in the trim then rubbed his brow with the back of his hand as he studied his work.

When had he become so handy with tools?

“Let’s just say, I had an epiphany.”

“Epiphany?” Maggie scoffed. He didn’t say more and she didn’t pry. She was just thankful that he was helping today instead of arguing. She snorted back a laugh. Knowing him, he was just trying to protect the materials they had stacked inside the barn to protect them from the snow and sleet so he could sell them off later when he shut down the barn.

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