Carry Me Home by James Rosalind

Author:James, Rosalind [James, Rosalind]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2015-06-16T05:00:00+00:00

“So what are you two doing this morning?” Raylene asked when they were sitting around the kitchen table again, and Zoe was eating a breakfast that was going to take a whole lot to work off.

Cal took a sip of coffee, his hand looking bigger than ever wrapped around the white ceramic mug.

She was getting gooey looking at his hand. She had to stop this.

“Well, eventually,” he said, “I’m going to be giving the professor a ride on back to her place. Vern says you’ve got some damage, like we thought,” he told her. “Maybe bent the frame. Sorry.”

“Oh.” She forgot all about his hand, and the bite of pancake threatened to stick in her throat. “That sounds bad.”

“Not great. What’s your insurance like?”

She sighed. “Not good enough. Old car.”

“You’re probably still going to be better off repairing than replacing,” he said. “Long as there’s nothing else wrong with it.”

“No,” she said automatically. “No. It’s fine. I’ll get it fixed.”

“Friends-and-family rate,” he reminded her. “Won’t be that bad, I don’t think.” She didn’t miss the look his parents exchanged. Had Cal paid part of it? She should care. She should object. “But meanwhile,” he said while she was still trying to work up to it, “it was so pretty driving over here, I thought we should go snowshoeing. Take your mind off the bad stuff.”

“Snowshoeing?” she asked blankly, her mind still on her car, and the bill. “I don’t know how to snowshoe.”

“Do you know how to walk?”

“Of course I do.”

“Then you know how to snowshoe. And besides, all those calories in that bacon and pancakes? What were you planning to do about those?”

“Cal!” his mother exploded.

Zoe was laughing a little, though. “And here I was afraid you were going to charm me today.”

“What, that wasn’t charming?”

“Telling me that I’m eating too much and had better get some exercise? No, oddly enough. Not so much.”

“Was that what I was saying? Funny, I was thinking just the opposite. Thinking how good you look, and wondering how I could talk you into spending a little more time with me so I could look at you some more.”

In front of his parents. He’d said that in front of his parents, was smiling at her like he meant it, and he was melting her as surely as sunlight melted snow.

She did her best all the same. “You know what else I’m wearing? Besides your mom’s sweater?”

“Uh . . . no,” he said, his eyes sliding toward his mother. He was looking a little rattled now, taking a would-be casual sip of coffee.

“I’m wearing your mom’s pants, and your mom’s socks,” she told him. “And underneath that? I’m wearing your mom’s underwear.”

He choked on his coffee, grabbed for a napkin, coughed for a full thirty seconds while his father pounded him helpfully on the back, his grin reaching all the way to his blue eyes.

“I’ve heard,” Raylene said once Cal had got his breath back again, “that having two conflicting ideas in your head can paralyze a person.

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