Stranded with the Secret Billionaire by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THE NEXT WEEK passed in a blur of hard work and happiness. Matt was pressuring her to slow down, to give herself a break after the exertion of shearing, but why would she?

She made the house pristine. The orders for the new furniture were coming in, to be admired, placed, enjoyed. She was still cooking but there were only four men to cook for. She could do it with her hands tied.

Matt was outside working, so she was too.

She was getting pretty good at riding Maisie now. She could round up the mobs of sheep with him, listening to his plans for building his bloodlines, or explaining how this ewe had triplets last lambing and all of them survived, or introducing her to Roger the Ram, whose bloodlines were suspect but who’d been having his way with the ladies for so long that he didn’t have it in him to get rid of him.

His pride in his land and his flock was contagious. Penny found herself starting to decipher individual differences, knowing what to look for in the best breeding stock, looking at the signs of capeweed in the top paddock and frowning because Matt had told her the effort it was to keep the pasture lush and healthy.

Then they started drenching, and working in the house disappeared from her agenda. They lived on soup and sandwiches because Penny was out there, learning how to deal with a drenching gun to make sure the sheep would be pest-free, learning how to encourage the dogs and herd a mob of sheep into the yards, how to be a useful farmhand.

She came in at night tired and filthy—she smelled the same as Samson—and every night she fell into bed exhausted.

She fell into bed with Matt.

On the night of the picnic he’d taken her to his bed and she’d melted into his arms with joy. It felt right. It felt like home.

It was as if she hadn’t lived until now. He smiled and her heart sang. He touched her and her body melted into his.

This wasn’t forever. She was sensible enough to know those demons were still out there. She was still Matt’s housekeeper, being paid the exorbitant wage she’d demanded. He was still her boss.

But he wasn’t her boss at night and the nights were theirs. Their nights were a time for no promises, no thought of the future and no looking back on the past.

Here, in Matt’s arms, she could pretend the rest of the world didn’t exist. She could forget her father’s scorn, Brett’s betrayal, her mother’s needs.

Here she could pretend she was loved and, for the moment, it was all she asked.

And as for Matt’s demons? She wasn’t asking questions and neither was he. For both of them the future seemed too far away, too hard. There was just the oasis of now.

Old resolutions were put aside. She knew they were still there—for both of them—but for now why ask questions? Right now was perfect.

If this was all there was, she’d take it.

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