Rocky Mountain Hero (Roberts of Silver Springs Book 2) by Cassie Hayes & Roberts of Silver Springs

Author:Cassie Hayes & Roberts of Silver Springs [Hayes, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-09T18:30:00+00:00

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The world had taken on a hazy greyness in the weeks since Josh Bodin had waltzed back into Spike’s — and more importantly Amy’s — life. At this time of year, the sky should have sparkled with an intensity that reminded him of Amy’s eyes, but now it looked like a bland imitation of what he knew it could have been. The wind fluttering through the spruce trees had once sounded like a billion tiny voices happily chattering. Today, all he heard were lonely whispers of dying hope. Coffee had no flavor, bacon smelled like death.

“Are we getting close, Spike?” Josh called.

“It’s right around that bend,” Spike shouted back to the entire group of five other cross-country skiers.

This short-notice excursion to a secluded natural hot springs had only been possible due to Amy’s hard work at organizing what they’d loosely called an office. Freed up to book more trips, Spike had wasted no time filling up his schedule with activities: hiking in the lower elevations, and skiing, ice climbing and snow camping in the higher ones. He’d even organized a “skijoring” competition, where snow skiers were towed around a course by a horse and rider. Sort of the winter version of water skiing, only with a horse instead of a boat, and snow instead of water. A Grand Junction TV station had sent a news crew to cover the event. After that, Rocky Mountain Adventures had exploded onto the guided adventure scene, in no small part thanks to Amy.

The increased revenue thrilled Zach, but Spike was just happy to stay out of the office. Seeing Amy come in every day, wanting to walk up behind her and kiss that soft spot on the back of her neck, rest his hand on her hip, breathe in her ear until shivers rippled through her body — wanting to do all those things, but not being able to, was a form of torture he’d never expected to experience.

Spike Roberts wasn’t a jealous man. If one of his lady friends had wanted to call it quits, he’d always smiled and thanked them for a lovely memory. Most of them still kept in touch, and he was oddly proud of that.

But Amy… Amy was special. She made him feel special simply by being in her presence. The fact she’d been romantically interested in him — as short-lived as that might have been — gave him a tremendous feeling of pride and gratitude. Probably what winning an Oscar was like.

Watching Josh drop her off every afternoon ate at him. After the first few times, he’d made a point to be gone before she arrived, if he wasn’t guiding a group of winter sports enthusiasts. That had helped his internal struggle, but it did nothing for the tension that had built between him and Amy.

After realizing Josh was Ethan’s bio-dad, Spike had distanced himself from Amy. He didn’t delude himself into thinking their connection was imagined — it was very, very real — but their circumstances had changed.

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