That One Heartbreak: A Small Town Single Mom Romance (The Heartbreak Brothers Next Generation Book 3) by Carrie Elks

Author:Carrie Elks [Elks, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

The buzz of her phone woke her up a couple of hours later. Not that she was in deep sleep. Her mind had been too fitful for that. She reached out for it, frowning when she saw it was almost two am.

No good news ever came at this hour of the night.

It took three tries to unlock her screen. Mostly because she was frowning and for some reason the facial recognition didn’t like that. But when she did, she saw she had a message.

Open your window. – Marley

She ran the tip of her tongue over her dry lips. According to the time stamp it had been sent a minute ago. And then her heart started racing as the memories of the sirens from earlier in the night filled her mind. Was he okay?

She practically sprinted to the window.

As soon as she pulled the curtains she could see him standing on the porch below. She opened the window and leaned out.

“What are you doing?” she whispered.

“Hoping you’d be awake.” He gave her the most delicious smile. Before she could say anything else, he launched himself at the wall of the house, his hands grasping onto the drainpipe as he climbed up it like some kind of monkey, his movements so sure it took her breath away. In less than thirty seconds he’d reached her window, his fingers curling around the sill, his feet firmly planted on the brackets of the pipe.

“Can I come in?” He didn’t even sound breathless.

She stepped back, trying so hard not to watch as his thick thighs scissored over the opening of the window, his running shoes landing with a thud on her carpet.

And then, as though he was some kind of polite visitor dropping in for dinner, he took his shoes off and lined them up neatly on the floor.

Her mouth dropped open. “Did you really just climb up to my window like some kind of Romeo on acid?”

“Romeo never climbed up to the balcony,” Marley pointed out. “He just stayed on the ground like an idiot.” He strode up to her, brushing the hair from her face, then kissed her softly. “Hi.”

“Hi.” She felt herself go stupidly weak at the knees. “Do you know I’m thirty-five years old and nobody’s ever climbed through my bedroom window before?”

He grinned and touched his brow with the tip of his fingers. “Happy to be your first, ma’am.”

“I heard the sirens earlier.” She looked him over almost subconsciously, checking for injuries.

“I figured you did. And I might be a little cocky, but I assumed you might want to know I’m okay.”

“I do.” She nodded quickly. “What kind of call out was it?”

“Barn fire. Twenty minutes away.”

“Anybody hurt?” she asked.

“No.” He shook his head. “Had to save some little calves but that was it.”

And now she was picturing him carrying baby cows out of a blazing barn. “I was worried,” she admitted to him. “I didn’t like hearing the sirens.”

He cupped her face with his palm. “I know. And I’m sorry.

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