Once Upon a Time in Bliss by Lexi Blake

Author:Lexi Blake [Blake, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nights in Bliss, Lexi Blake, Sophie Oak, romance, suspense
Publisher: DLZ Entertainment LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Bishop hopped off the snowmobile and stared at the small cabin in front of him. It was covered in snow, but someone had painstakingly shoveled the walkway from the front porch to the driveway. Three cars were parked along the circular drive—a tiny VW bug, a big-ass SUV, and a truck that had seen better days.

And everywhere he looked, he saw the evidence of the aforementioned gnomes. Their pointy red hats stuck up out of the snow. Bishop would bet that during the summertime, this yard was filled with flowers and ceramic gnomes would rule the valley.

A memory from his childhood washed over him. His mother had kept a small garden in the back of their house. The tiny home he’d spent his first years in had been in a trashy part of the town he’d grown up in, but she’d been proud of it. She kept it clean and she’d made a little playground in the back for him. It hadn’t been much, just a ratty old swing set she’d bought secondhand and had to clean rust off of, and a sandbox she’d dug herself. He would sit there and watch her as she worked in the garden. His mother’s hands had been callused from work, but she’d been the tenderest woman in the world.

Nell’s hands were callused. Nell worked.

Bishop took a long breath and banished the unwanted memories. He wasn’t sure why they had surfaced. He’d grown up in the heat of Houston. He’d never seen snow until he joined the military. But something about the cabin in front of him took him right back to that time when he’d been safe and warm and loved.

“Hello! Can I help you?” A small woman peeked out of her door. She was thin and warmly dressed, her graying hair in a neat bun. She had a slightly hooked nose, giving her an almost birdlike appearance, but the woman in front of him wouldn’t be a hawk or an eagle. She was a little dove. “Come on inside. It’s freezing out here. I have some cider warming.”

He nodded her way, pocketing the keys to the snowmobile Bill had given him not twenty minutes before along with his promise to watch after Nell. He made short work of the distance, eager to be inside. This world was too cold, too white. Even dressed and away from the resort, he still felt a bit naked, as though all that pristine snow couldn’t cover up the fact that he didn’t belong here. A man needed camouflage to survive, and there was none to be had in this town. This woman proved it. She noticed a strange man in her front yard and invited him in for cider.

He thought about giving the older woman a stern talking-to. He could be a serial killer. He could be an Amway salesman. He could be anyone. But it wasn’t his place. If Logan’s mom wanted to get herself horrifically murdered, then that was her business.

Damn, that cider smelled good.

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