Her Rancher Rescuer by Donna Alward

Author:Donna Alward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jack kept his distance from the office. Amy was in there catching up on admin and he wasn’t in the mood for any one-on-one time. It was too dangerous. He’d promised to leave things in her court but it was getting more difficult with each passing day. Yesterday she’d declined the day of cat skiing with the group, insisting she was too much of a novice and that backcountry powder skiing wasn’t her thing. He hadn’t pushed it. She’d stayed behind and run things like clockwork. To make up for the previous day’s gaff, he was certain.

This morning he found himself out in the barn, oiling the tack for the sleigh ride this afternoon, making sure nothing was cracked or worn, even though he knew that Miguel would have gone over it already.

He’d been so alarmed when he’d arrived home from the dogsledding and she hadn’t been here. Worse when he realized that he didn’t have her cell phone number. Hearing the phone ring had been such a relief.

In the space of a few minutes, he’d told himself quite rationally that it couldn’t have been an accident because they would have seen it on the way home. The irrational part of him knew that they would be invisible if they’d gone down an embankment. He’d convinced himself that they were lost, or had taken a side trip into town. Both of which ended up being correct....

The scariest thing had been the rush of relief he’d felt seeing her get out of the vehicle. Yes, he’d worried about their clients but it was different with Amy. And that was bad. That was very bad. He cared, but he was starting to care too much.

It was just as well she wasn’t here for much longer, wasn’t it? Before he really got into trouble.

He had wanted to get back in the van and go looking for her. To ride to her rescue. The last time he’d done that he’d ended up losing his heart to a woman who had stomped on it. He’d offered everything and she had turned it away.

Amy seemed very sweet, but she was stubborn. She was going back to Canada. Their paths would rarely cross....

Except they would. Because Callum was there. Because the lodge he’d just bought was there.

Hell, she didn’t even know about that new development.

His head kept telling him to steer clear. But every time he found himself in a room with her, he conveniently forgot. It wasn’t that he wanted her too much to think straight, though wanting her was definitely an issue. It was more that he simply enjoyed being with her. Talking to her. Hanging out with her. It was comfortable and easy. When he was with her he stopped being Jack Shepard, former athlete; Jack Shepard, sporting goods mogul; Jack Shepard, millionaire.

He was Jack Shepard, ordinary guy. A man who liked the outdoors. A man who didn’t feel he needed to apologize for trading Armani for Levi’s. The unvarnished truth of it was he liked himself better when he was around her.

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