Mistletoe Cowboy by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, General, Contemporary, Fiction, Western
ISBN: 9781402270154
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2012-09-30T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

In those moments just before Sage opened her eyes she smelled coffee and something sweet. Then her bed bounced and she couldn’t hold on to the dream, but she was sure it had to do with Creed Riley. And there he was, holding a tray with toast, scrambled eggs, cookies, and coffee.

“Good morning, beautiful,” Creed said.

“Good morning, cowboy.” Sex had not taken away his deep Texas drawl, and it sounded even hotter than it had when he first barreled his way into the kitchen.

“Hungry?”

She sat up and he quickly propped pillows behind her and set the tray on her lap.

“It looks wonderful. Have you eaten?”

“Yes, ma’am. Did the chores. Milked the cow and cooked breakfast.”

She put a fork full of eggs into her mouth. “Good!”

“Good that I got the chores done or good eggs?”

“Both.”

“Temperature dropped another five degrees. It’s down to thirteen, but I saw the trucks from the electric company making their way down the road this morning. We might get our electricity back soon.”

Not a word about the day before. Nothing about staying in bed and making love until dinnertime and then all the sexual innuendos that went on while they made sugar cookies in the afternoon.

“Should we talk about it?” she asked.

“Nothing to talk about. Either we get electricity or we don’t. We’ve managed to live without it a week now. Would be nice to have lights and if it’s not on tomorrow, I’m definitely going to have underwear and socks hanging all over the living room.”

“I’m talking about sex, not electricity,” she said.

“Oh, nothing to talk about there either. It was out-of-this-world fantastic.”

“Creed, I don’t do this kind of thing. I don’t jump into bed with a man I’ve only known a week. I’m not that kind of person.”

“I know,” he said softly, “and we were supposed to be slowing the wagon down, weren’t we?”

Did that mean he was sorry they’d gone over the barbed wire fence into territory they had no business exploring?

“Yes, we were, and hell’s bells, this is supposed to be awkward.”

He grinned. “But it’s not, is it?”

“No, it feels right.”

“I thought so too.”

She reached out and touched his cheek. “Now that we got that out of the way, what’s on the agenda for today?”

He leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. “First of all, you have breakfast and then we’re going out for a drive in the big tractor to see how things are on the rest of the ranch. Bundle up good or you’ll freeze your cute little butt off.”

“Heater only works part of the time,” she said.

“Then put on two pair of socks.”

***

Creed picked up a sugar cookie and nibbled on it while Sage finished her breakfast. She’d said that the powdered sugar in the recipe was what made it melt in his mouth. He didn’t agree. It was her hands in the dough that made it so special.

When she’d finished with her breakfast, he dropped a kiss on her forehead and headed out of the room, tray in hand.

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