Icing on the Cake by Ann Marie Walker

Author:Ann Marie Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Swerve

Chapter Eleven

The scene couldn’t have been more perfect had Hank designed it himself. Behind the barn was a narrow path, lit with more of the same copper lanterns they had seen when they arrived. Only instead of welcoming them to the hoe down, these flickering lights beckoned them away from the crowd toward a small pond flanked by a curtain of weeping willow trees.

“Beautiful,” Cassie said when they reached the water’s edge.

“I couldn’t agree more,” Hank said, never taking his eyes off her.

She turned to face him and that shy smile returned. Goddamn, she was the perfect combination of sexy and sweet. What he wouldn’t give to be alone with her, miles and miles from anyone else. Just the two of them, snowed in at a chalet or in a cabana on a private island. Hell, he’d even settle for a log cabin in the woods. But while stumbling across an empty cabin was about as unlikely as actually finding one owned by three porridge-eating bears, surely there was a nice patch of grass somewhere close by? Perhaps if they walked along the water’s edge.

“Shall we?” he said, gesturing toward the winding path.

She stepped forward then stopped. “Did you hear something?”

Hank cocked his head to one side, focusing on the sounds coming from the darkness, but all he heard was the distant chirp of crickets mingled with the lapping of the water against the shore. “You mean the crickets?”

“No, it sounded more like a clicking noise.” Cassie hesitated a second before joining him, but when they reached the path, she stilled. “There it was again.”

“Maybe it was my mobile.” Or Clayton, he thought. “The bloody thing has had a mind of its own since I landed.” And so did the head of his security detail. “Give me two secs to turn it off.” Hank pulled his phone out of the pocket of his trousers and fired off a quick text to the man who was supposed to be keeping his distance, not following him around a lake. They were on the outskirts of a small town and he was in the company of a lovely woman. The only danger he was in was dying from a case of blue balls. Clayton, on the other hand, was in considerably more.

PRIVACY was all Hank typed, but he knew it would be enough for him to get the message.

“At least it’s not the paparazzi,” Cassie said with a laugh.

Hank nearly dropped his phone. “Pardon?”

“Hadn’t you heard? There was a celebrity on the guest list.”

“Is that so?” As far as Hank was aware, none of the other wedding guests even knew he’d been invited. From the very beginning he’d suggested that Matthew and Emily keep his possible attendance a secret. They’d agreed, even going so far as to keep the information from their families.

“Yep. But I guess he couldn’t make it. Schedule conflict or something. Good thing, could you imagine what a circus this would have been with the press camped out all over this sweet little town?”

“Mmm.

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