Into the Arms of a Cowboy by Isabella Ashe

Author:Isabella Ashe [Ashe, Isabella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Cowboy
Amazon: B00AAHC6HS
Goodreads: 16167437
Publisher: Starfish Press
Published: 2012-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

After her disastrous attempt to weed the garden, Cassie threw herself back into tidying the cabin. After all, she needed something to take her mind off her own idiocy. How could she even think of telling Jess about Andrew? But there in the garden, with the sun heavy against her shoulders and Jess’s gorgeous brown eyes just inches away, she’d almost given herself up.

Smart, Cassie. Real smart.

At worst, Jess would’ve gone and turned her in. At best, she would have made him into an accomplice. It was a crime to shelter a fugitive, wasn’t it?

“Anything short of murder,” he’d said. Well, she hadn’t murdered anybody, but even dear, trusting Jess wouldn’t believe that. Not after he heard all the damning evidence.

Cassie glanced appraisingly around the cabin. She would rather not sit around with nothing to do. Jess didn’t need any nursing, and she couldn’t just mooch off of him. So she’d make herself useful.

She decided to attack the bookshelves first. Jess’s book collection looked like it could use a good dusting, and then she would arrange the paperbacks by author. The task ought to keep her busy all afternoon. Hopefully, he’d stay outside and leave her alone. She didn’t want to face him for a while.

First she pulled all the books from the shelves and stacked them in the living area. They covered half the cabin’s floor. Jess was definitely a reader. Besides his many novels, she found a whole row of hardback books on woodworking, carpentry, plumbing, and many more similar titles. As her fingers trailed over the spines, her curiosity grew. Did he plan to build something?

At random, she selected a volume on masonry and plucked it from the shelf. A roll of thick paper, shoved into the space behind the books, caught her eye. She reached for it, then unrolled the papers.

Blueprints! But for what? It looked like a house, two stories. . .carefully drawn rooms. . .a balcony, breakfast nook, window seats. . . .

“What the hell are you doing?”

At the sound of Jess’s angry voice from the porch, Cassie started, almost dropping the blueprints. The screen door banged shut as Jess swung himself into the room. The rubber guards on his crutches thumping against the wooden floor.

As she met Jess’s angry gaze, Cassie’s heart thudded painfully. Fury darkened his normally placid, thoughtful face. His eyes flashed dangerously. For the first time since she’d met him, Cassie grew intensely aware of his physical strength and size. Oh, she’d noticed his wide shoulders and the corded muscles of his arms, his masculine presence and obvious virility, but until now she’d never seen him as a potential threat.

“I--I found these blueprints,” she said, her voice shaky, her lips trembling, “and I just wondered what they--”

His jaw tensed. A muscle twitched in one tanned cheek. “They’re none of your damn business. Why should you know all the private details of my life, when you won’t even share the first thing about yours? Plus you had no right to snoop through my things!”

Despite her nervousness, Cassie raised her chin and stared Jess down.

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