Mail Order Desire by Alix West

Author:Alix West [West, Alix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Clay

Bacon sizzled in the pan and the cabin filled with the savory aroma of breakfast.

“Easy come, easy go, huh Charlie?”

The dog’s tail thumped against the wall as he wagged it, lying next to the kitchen table, anticipating his breakfast. Clay scooped a cup into the bag of dog food and poured it into the bowl. Charlie gazed at Clay, eyes wide, ears at attention, waiting for his master’s command. Even though he was young he had been a fast learner.

“Good boy.”

Charlie got to his feet and moved quickly to the bowl, driving his snout into the food like it was a steak cooked medium rare and not just dry kibble.

“You’d a liked to run with her if I hadn’t been throwing the stick.”

Clay took a dozen eggs from the fridge and cracked four into the skillet, his thoughts drifting back to Victoria and the ways she’d looked that morning on her run. Even without makeup she took his breath.

He imagined where she’d be soon, crossing the small regional airport, pulling her suitcase behind her. She’d need help with her luggage. He’d seen her when she arrived, the bellboy pushing the cart piled high with suitcases, a stupid fucking smile on his face while he watched her ass.

Her ass, admittedly, was pretty damn fine, but that didn’t give the bellboy the right to check it out. Or any other man.

He looked out the window to the slate roof of the Lodge in the distance. She was in one of the fifty rooms. He tried to picture her in her suite, getting dressed for a day of travel. Some tight little skirt. A pair of sexy-as-fuck heels. Her hair swept up with just a few tendrils escaping to cling to her neck.

Victoria Singleton. He had it bad for her. From the first moment he’d seen her, she consumed his thoughts. There were a dozen women at the Lodge who would jump at the chance to have dinner with him and that little girl blew him off like he was nothing more than a piece of lint on her cashmere sweater.

She’d been at the lodge for two weeks. He tried to ignore her, tried to forget that he’d ever seen her, but every woman he met seemed like nothing to him. His mind painted Victoria’s face on every single one. It was like no other woman existed.

He never imagined a woman would be able to do that to him. He’d seen the same thing happen to buddies, men who’d chased every skirt in a ten-mile radius. Not just chase, but score, often. They’d been perfectly happy and even proud of their playboy ways, until the day they saw The One.

And Victoria was his. He was sure of it. It didn’t bother him that she’d stood him up, other than he wanted to be with her, now. He didn’t mind the chase if Victoria was the prize. If anything, he liked the challenge. What did bother him was the fear he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

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