Home Ice by Gayle Catherine

Author:Gayle, Catherine [Gayle, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Bons Mots, Inc.
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

THE INSTANT HE parked in my driveway, all four of my girls barreled out of his SUV and rushed straight for the door.

“Kissy-kissy time,” Evie said in a sing-song voice amid their chorus of giggles, and I let out a groan.

Zoe took her keys out of her pocket and let them in, and then Mattias and I were alone for the first time. She slammed the door closed behind them. Within seconds, I saw the curtains flutter. Which meant they were peeking out at us.

“They meant to say thank you,” I said on a sigh. I turned to find him staring at me with those intense blue-gray eyes. They should have frozen me, like icicles boring into me, but there was so much heat in them I burned instead. I couldn’t look in those eyes very long or I’d melt into his floorboard. I hurried to speak again before I forgot how. “So thank you. For everything. This whole weekend…”

My words trailed off, along with my ability to think, because he took my hand in his again, lacing our fingers together and sending jolts of electric awareness through my veins at breakneck speed.

“I should be the one thanking you,” he said. “And your girls, too.”

I shook my head, unable to process it. “What? Why?”

With the pad of his thumb, he traced lazy circles on the back of my hand, raising goose bumps all up and down my arms. I shivered, but not from cold.

“Because you showed me I could be the man my sister loves even when I’m not with her.”

I still didn’t follow. I hadn’t known Mattias very long, but he’d repeatedly shown himself to be kind, thoughtful, and entirely too much man for me to ignore. But now it was time for me to give him that kiss and get out, before I fell too hard. Before Sophie fell too hard. Before we all got too attached. It was happening, faster than I’d been prepared for, and I was already dreading the damage control I’d have to do once he walked out of our lives. I’d let him in further than anyone since Dan and I had split up under the pressure of raising a daughter with special needs. Ever since then, I’d been cautious to keep enough of a barrier between us and the rest of the world that no one could cut us too deeply, but with Mattias I’d let down my guard.

He cleared his throat before my thoughts were coherent, and I forced myself to meet his gaze again.

“I’ve got to head out of town in a couple of days with the team. We have a short road trip. We’ll be back on Friday, though, so I was wondering—”

“I meant what I said earlier,” I cut in. I tried to tug my hand away, but he tightened his hold, keeping me firmly in his grasp—exactly where my body wanted to be, and maybe my heart, too. The only part of me not on board with that was my head, which was the part I needed to be listening to.

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