Fencing Her In by Knox Abby

Author:Knox, Abby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Author Abby Knox, LLC
Published: 2019-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Daniel

I’m heading out to my truck to check on Molly. When I open the front door, though, she’s standing there, looking sheepish, holding a cast-iron skillet.

The thought crosses my mind that she could be here to hit me over the head with that.

But then she smiles.

Not a wicked smile.

A warm smile. A grateful smile.

The kind of smile I’m not sure I’ve done anything to deserve.

“Hi,” I say.

She lifts the lid off the skillet and says, “Hi, yourself.”

I’m almost afraid to look at the contents of the skillet, but of course I have to.

To my relief, it’s not anything gruesome.

It’s a beautiful, old-fashioned Texas peach cobbler.

My mouth waters instantly.

I look up at her and then I notice something else.

She’s wearing a dress…and she has on makeup. A funky leather necklace is looped around her neck, and her hair is tamed into a set of cute braid…things.

She’s gone to a lot of effort to bring me a cobbler, but then maybe she’s on her way out to a date or something. The thought of another man with her causes an angry stirring in my chest. I don’t like it.

The idea that she may have gotten dressed up for someone besides me might actually be pissing me off, though I don’t understand it. She has no obligation to me.

“Wow,” I say. “That looks…and you look…beautiful.”

She grins bigger and then bites her lip. “I wanted to bring you a thank-you-and-sorry cobbler.”

I laugh. “Come on in,” I say, moving out of the way for her to come inside.

She brushes past me and the aroma of the cobbler combined with her tart, fruity scent is about to do me in.

And now she’s in my house. She is in my house with her scent and her cobbler, and all the parts of me want to scoop her up and haul her to my bed right this second.

She sets the pan down on my countertop. “Nice house,” she says, glancing around the kitchen.

“Thanks,” I say. “That Formica is going away and I’m gonna replace it with sealed concrete. The oak cabinets are still perfect; they only need new hardware and stain.” I point to the wall separating the kitchen from the den. “That wall is going away, and over here,” I tell her, gesturing to the back wall, “I’m going to put in some french doors that will lead out to a swimming pool. Sorry, you didn’t come here for a tour.”

She smiles. “No, but I don’t mind. It delays me having to say what I’m going to say.”

“Which is?”

“I’m sorry for accusing you of stealing Terrence. And he is kind of a bastard.”

I chuckle. It’s very disarming to hear her admit that one of her many dogs actually has the capability of being an asshole.

“And there’s something else. I saw the footage of you bringing Terrence back today. Dropped him off at the gate while I was out.”

I smile. “Yeah, I found him in a soybean field about a mile away. What happened was, one of

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