Sweet Dreamin' Baby

Author:Mary Kay McComas [McComas, Mary Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780553442106
Google: vS-OPQAACAAJ
Amazon: B00CJEUFHS
Barnesnoble: B00CJEUFHS
Goodreads: 716574
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1992-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

"Howdy, stranger."

"Lord in Heaven!" Ellis complained, her hand over her startled heart, her feet settling on the floor after jumping six feet. "You scared me close to death, Bryce. What are ya doin' here?"

"Well, for two weeks now, we ain't done nothin' but swap howdies at the house. I thought I'd come see how ya were doin'," he said, leaning limply against the storeroom door, unperturbed that she'd turned her back on him and resumed her sweeping.

"I'm doin' fine," she said, her words a bit clipped due to a sudden irregularity in her breathing. She felt as if she'd been running for miles, uphill. Oh, why did he have to make her feel this way, she wondered in quiet misery. Simply hearing his voice made her giddy with happiness; looking at him excited her beyond reason. And yet she dreaded both like a plague from hell.

It had been two weeks since she'd come awake in Bryce's bed, alone and remembering. Every word he'd spoken to her was pressed between the folds of her memory. Some were like wildflowers in a book, unforgettable, treasured, and hauntingly sweet. Some were too painful to be recalled.

She'd slept the afternoon and night away, rising before the sun, her body revived, her mind as muddled as if she hadn't slept at all.

Bryce was a complication she hadn't planned for when she'd left Stony Hollow to make her fortune; he was a complication she hadn't planned for in her future—ever. She'd had no idea that men like Bryce LaSalle even existed, let alone how to react to him. He confused and delighted her. He distracted her, attracted her like a summer bug to a porch light. He was a row of bad stumps she couldn't afford to tangle with if she wanted to get back to Stony Hollow. And she needed to get back, soon.

He stood quietly at the door watching her, and she did her best to ignore him. Seconds passed. Watching and ignoring came together like invisible waves of hot and cold air, charging the atmosphere with electricity, with lightning and thunder.

"So?" she asked, turning on him when she couldn't stand the tension any longer. "Was there somethin' else ya wanted? I got work to do here."

"I ain't stoppin' ya."

"Well, I can't do nothin'. with you standin' there watchin' me."

"Why not?" he asked, a smug look on his face. "Do I make ya nervous?"

“Yes." Why lie? she decided.

"Why do you suppose that is, huh, Ellis?" He tilted his head to one side and looked thoughtful. “You reckon it's the same thing that's kept you skirtin' around me these past weeks?"

"I been busy."

“Too busy to talk to a friend?"

A friend? She'd always been more comfortable with squirrels and raccoons, but the idea of a friend wasn't foreign to her. She'd often wished for a special person to talk to, to laugh with the way she'd seen other people doing. She liked telling Bryce about her plans for the future. She'd felt special when he'd told her about his relationship with Liddy Evans.

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