Kissed by the Country Doc by Melinda Curtis

Author:Melinda Curtis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-05T15:54:31+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

“IT STOPPED SNOWING!”

Ella made the joyous announcement when Noah stirred the morning after they’d kissed. She’d been tiptoeing around the cabin starting the shower and the coffeemaker. But the sun!

The sun bounced off pristine snow and leaped through the cabin windows with an energy Ella wasn’t feeling. She was certain she hadn’t slept a wink last night. Penny had woken early, her coughs not as wracking, unaffected by the bright morning and content to lie on the couch and talk quietly to Woof, who’d slid from Noah’s lap to sit closer to Penny.

Ella had hoped the kiss yesterday would have cleared the air. It hadn’t. After that kiss, she and Noah didn’t talk, but they looked. They didn’t touch, but they sighed with longing. They didn’t kiss. They kept their distance. Or maybe all that detached mooning had been on Ella’s part. Noah had whistled while he cleaned the kitchen last night. Whistled!

“What a beautiful day,” Ella said with forced cheer, taking a coffee mug from the cupboard.

“You say that like you can taste freedom.” Noah tried to look wounded, but he just looked rumpled and cute, while Ella was convinced she looked as frumpy as she felt.

“In a few minutes, I’ll be tasting coffee.” The coffeemaker was heating up. Ella hoped that was the only heat exchange the cabin witnessed today. “Do you have shoes I can borrow so I can help you dig a path out of here?”

“Hiking boots and extra socks.” He pointed to a pair of boots and thick socks near the door.

When had he put those there? She didn’t remember them being there last night.

“But you won’t be helping me clear a path.” He got out of the recliner slowly. “I’ll snowshoe to Roy’s and then he and I will make a path to the coffee shop. If I know Mitch, he’ll clear the sidewalk from the inn to the diner.”

Both Noah and Woof shook out the kinks from a night spent in the recliner. Woof was more vigorous in his technique, but Noah got points in Ella’s book for slow, languid movement. Plus, Noah still wasn’t wearing his gloves.

The coffeemaker sputtered. Noah turned to look at Ella.

Why? Because she’d lost the thread of conversation. What had he been talking about?

He kept looking. She didn’t look away.

This was where her brain should have been instructing her mouth on what words to say. But her brain was numbed by the snow-radiant sunshine and the man-hunk before her. And her mouth...

His gaze drifted to her lips. She felt dizzy.

Say something. Say something. Say something.

He kept looking. She couldn’t look away.

She wanted his arms around her, if only to put a halt to the vertigo that was her tilting heart, and keep her on her feet. Only she feared she’d already fallen most of the way down. She feared she was falling under the spell of the attraction between them before she ever knew how he liked his eggs, how he spent the holidays, and what he was looking for when he trekked across the snow around Second Chance.

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