Dreaming of His Snowed In Kiss (Cowboy Mountain Christmas, Small Town Sweet Romance Book 4) by Jessie Gussman

Author:Jessie Gussman [Gussman, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessie Gussman
Published: 2020-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“You can come closer.” He tried to make his voice carefully kind as he directed his words to Hazel.

It wasn’t a natural sound for him. He’d never been around kids, except for Minnie’s for the last two weeks, and they were boys.

Except for Gabriella of course, who hadn’t needed him to talk to her, just to feed her and change her and hold her in the night while she cried.

Hazel was a completely different story.

He would almost say he loved the boys. Funny, it had only taken two weeks for that to happen, and he would protect them, sure. But somehow, the protective feeling was stronger toward Hazel, which was really odd considering that he’d just met her ten minutes ago.

“We’ll wait until your mom comes back, but if she says yes, you could probably sit down and hold her, too.”

“Really?” Hazel’s eyes glowed, and her lips tugged up.

“Really.”

“She’s not my mom. She’s my sister.”

“Yeah. Forgot.”

“Does the baby live here?”

He almost said “for now,” but he stopped himself just in time. He didn’t know what the story was on Hazel, but what he knew of Gabriella and her brothers’ story, it wasn’t a good one.

A child deserved permanence in their life, not a “for now” answer that wasn’t an answer.

“Yes.”

Her hair was a little wet, probably from the rain outside, and as he thought about it, Poppy’s had been wet too.

It just added to her sparkle. Another woman might have looked like a drowned rat. But somehow it made Poppy glow even more.

“Can I touch her?”

Gabriella burped, a sound that maybe would have been cute if it hadn’t been accompanied by what seemed like at least twice as much liquid as he had put into her running down his shirt.

“You sure can. Watch out, she might get you too.”

Hazel’s eyes widened, then, to his surprise, she giggled.

The solemn little girl that had been standing beside her sister five minutes ago disappeared, and she looked much more normal to West.

That’s the way a child should act. Giggles. It was also normal, he supposed, for girls to be interested in babies.

Or maybe it was just something new.

Anyway, none of Gabriella’s brothers seemed to pay much attention to her. West couldn’t remember ever giving a baby a thought in his life before, certainly not when he was a kid.

Hazel came closer, within arm’s length, and touched Gabriella’s back.

“She’s warm.”

“Just like you are.”

That made Hazel’s brows go down, and she used the hand that was touching Gabriella to touch her cheek.

“My cheek is cold.”

“Touch your stomach.”

He turned Gabriella around, so once Hazel had touched her own stomach, she could feel Gabriella’s stomach.

Hazel lifted her shirt just a little and put her hand on her stomach.

“I’m warm, too,” she said, wonder in her voice, like she’d never stopped to discover that she was warm before.

West couldn’t help smiling at the dawn of knowledge on her face. He couldn’t remember ever figuring out that he was warm. But it must be something everyone learned at one point.

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