One Hundred Ways_An Aspen Cove Romance by Kelly Collins

Author:Kelly Collins [Collins, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

It’d been two days since the incident at the studio. Two glorious days, or she should say two amazing nights.

The first night, Luke took her back to his place, where he cooked her an omelet and they curled up on the couch and watched scary movies. So scary she ended up in his lap, but she figured that was the plan.

Last night when she finished work, he was waiting outside, leaning against his SUV, dressed in worn jeans and a T-shirt.

He didn’t tell her where they were going; he simply helped her inside the car and drove. Twenty minutes later, they were at a ranch. Ten minutes after, they were on a horse, her sitting in front of him. He took her to a vista, where they watched the sunset. Where he kissed all doubt from her mind she wasn’t perfect the way she was.

Standing in front of the mirror, she slicked on her gloss and tucked the stray hair she couldn’t get to behave behind her ear. She’d dressed in jeans because Luke always commented on how nice she looked when she wore them and paired the outfit with a button-down plaid blouse.

Luke was a country boy at heart. His story wasn’t much different than hers, except he was missing the wicked stepmother.

“That’s as good as it’s going to get,” she told herself. She trotted down the stairs and opened the door to find Katie struggling with a box in one hand and her toddler on her hip.

“Oh, my goodness. I need another set of hands.”

“Let me help.” Riley took the box since she had no idea what to do with a child.

Katie opened the door to the bakery and led her inside. “Put that over there.” She pointed to the stainless-steel table in the center of the room. “I bought some rubber mats called Silpats. Maybe they’ll stop Ben from burning the cookies. I swear, ever since your aunt got her hair redone, that man’s brain has turned to mush.”

“She definitely entered the twenty-first century with a bang. I love it.” Riley set the heavy box on the table.

“Me, too.” She looked down at her daughter. “Have you met Sahara?”

Riley took a step back. Children scared her. Only because she considered herself a poor candidate for motherhood, given her role model.

“No, but she’s so cute.” The baby propped on Katie’s hip was a beauty. Golden ringlets hung down to her shoulders, and eyes that looked like a summer sky smiled back from the sweetest face.

“Sahara, this is your cousin Riley. Can you say Riley?” Katie moved forward and set Sahara in a playpen full of toys. “She doesn’t say much yet. A few words like down and up, and of course dada and mumum. I’m not sure if the last one is her calling me or telling me she wants to eat.”

Riley laughed. “Before you know it, she’ll be talking your ear off and you’ll remember the glorious days when she had a vocabulary of four words.”

“No doubt.

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