More than One Night by Heatherly Bell

Author:Heatherly Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-04-10T13:11:07+00:00

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Later that afternoon on the ridge after her meeting with the mayor, Jill squatted in a field to admire the bright yellow flowers that decorated a part of the hill slowly returning to life. She petted the flower gently, admiring its soft ruffly edges. She took a photo with her phone so she could later do an image search and identify it.

“How could something so beautiful be so much trouble and what did I ever do to you?”

It was a Mimulus. Had to be. This was the wildflower that the concerned resident had mentioned. There weren’t many flowers left on the ridge, not even poppies, their state flower, most having been obliterated in previous fires. But the beautiful Mimulus had come back. To haunt Jill, of course. She didn’t see the problem. Surely the wildflower could coexist with a bunch of extreme sports enthusiasts. Surely this wildflower appreciated hot guys. They wouldn’t step on the flowers. What if she swore an oath to that fact?

She couldn’t allow anything to slow down their opening at this point. That would be a huge failure. She’d done so much advertising and spent so much of their promotional budget banking on their opening date. Why couldn’t anyone have mentioned this to her sooner?

Jill could just hear her father right now: Forewarned is forearmed. Always do your research. Confirm your first and secondary sources. For God’s sake, don’t Google it. Are you ever going to listen to me? Jill Davis, this is your father speaking!

“Get a room.”

“Huh?” Jill rose and turned to the sound of a smooth-as-whiskey voice.

Sam grinned. “You two look like you’ll be pretty happy together. Even if you are a different species.”

“Meet Ms. Wildflower, my nemesis.”

“Looks harmless to me.”

“Shows how much you know!”

He quirked a brow. “How is this flower hurting you?”

“It’s not,” she huffed. “But I might be hurting it. I found out this morning that I have to get through one more snooze fest of a city council meeting because a resident is concerned about a wildflower on the ridge that’s indigenous to the area. We had an environmental study and no one mentioned it.”

“And this is the flower?”

“You see any others around here?” She shoved past him. “It’s called Wildfire Ridge for a reason.”

He followed her, steps behind her. “What does this mean? You can’t open?”

“No one’s going to stop me from opening. But it means lots of meetings and reports and maybe...delaying our opening.”

This didn’t seem to faze him in the slightest. “And?”

“And that wasn’t the plan!”

“Move to Plan B, babe.”

“Move to Plan B, he says. Move to Plan B.”

“Is there an echo here? Calm down. We can work this out.”

He smiled and stepped into her personal space. One hand wrapped around the nape of her neck. Nervous, she did her usual yammering when a really hot guy was this close. A super hot guy that she had growing feelings for.

“I’ve sunk thousands of dollars into marketing with our opening date. I’d have to spend more money changing everything.

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