Tad (Three Silverback Bears and a Baby Book 2) by Harmony Raines

Author:Harmony Raines [Raines, Harmony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2019-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve – Heather

Tired. No, exhausted was probably closer to the way Heather felt as she got back in the car and headed to the craft barn. It was a little after eight and all she really wanted to do was curl up on the sofa and watch TV, but she would find the energy to get through this evening and tomorrow. There was no way she could stop now. She’d come too far and risked too much.

That might sound a little dramatic, but it was close to the truth. It wasn’t just the money she’d invested in the business, it was the time and the energy. And hope.

She needed this to work. She needed to succeed.

He was here. The tiredness in her bones evaporated when she drove through the dimming light toward the barn. There, waiting for her, was Tad Harrison. All six foot four of him.

The woman inside her wanted to break free and throw caution, and all her hard work, to the wind and drag him off to the office to make sweet, sweet love to him.

Instead, she parked her car in her usual spot and opened the door slowly and deliberately. She wasn’t going to rush into his arms, she was going to keep a cool head.

Pity her body refused to stay cool. Even the cool evening breeze sweeping down from the mountain to caress her skin could not steal the heat from her fevered flesh. But she could hide all this from him. She had to, there was no way she was going to jeopardize her hard work and that of the other people involved.

“Hi. I have some sculptures.” He indicated a couple of crates standing next to the barn doors that would be flung open to the public tomorrow morning. Heather’s stomach flipped at the thought.

What had she been thinking? Andy was right, she had been away from the business world for too long and now she’d taken a stupid gamble with her own life and that of the other artists involved.

“Hey, are you all right?” Tad dashed forward, his hands outstretched as she put her hand over her mouth. She couldn’t be sick, not in front of Tad Harrison.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” She gulped in the cool mountain air and straightened up, letting her hand drop to her sides. Tad grasped her elbows and gently steered her toward the barn.

“It wasn’t your mother’s cooking, was it?” he asked lightly.

“No,” she grinned, feeling better. “We escaped lightly, she ordered pizza. She had this sudden urge to paint and lost track of time.”

“That happens.” He slipped his arm around her shoulders as if to ward off the mountain breeze. It was only then she realized she was shaking. “Shall we go inside?”

“Yes, I have the keys here somewhere.” She stuck her hand in her purse, relieved when her fingers curled around the large metal key that opened the thick wooden barn doors. “Here.”

He let go of her as she inserted the key in the lock and turned it.

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