The Bride's Choice by Sara Orwig

Author:Sara Orwig [Sara Orwig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459278943
Publisher: Harlequin

Seven

The following Saturday, she sat in the bow of the flat-bottomed boat and watched Cal teaching Chris to row. They had been married one week and her awareness of him was honed to such a fine point that she knew the instant he ap- proached. There hadn’t been any kisses since that first night. Monday and Tuesday, Cal had been in Dallas during the day, home late at night. The rest of the week he had worked long hours and she had seen little of him, but the few times they had been together, he touched her constantly. And as casual as the contacts had been, they were enough to keep her consciousness of him smoldering.

Now it was the weekend, and he had agreed to take the boys boating. He leaned forward, talking to Chris. As Cal hoisted a box of tackle and swung it over Josh to set it in the bottom of the boat, his muscles flexed and rippled. He was wearing a T-shirt and cutoffs and he looked incredibly fit and healthy with skin that was brown enough to give a mis- taken impression that he worked outside all day.

With yells from the boys and Chris rocking the boat, they pushed away from the wooden dock that ran out from a ramshackle boathouse. Bushes grew high along the banks and the water was an opaque muddy green. Up the sloping lawn stood the house, shaded by oaks, poplars and pine trees. Several yards wide, Rainy Creek cut across the five acres that comprised Green Oaks grounds.

In minutes they moved smoothly along, Chris and Josh pulling on the oars, while Quin sat trailing a string in the water. Cal moved carefully past them to sit down beside her. On the narrow seat they were pressed together, her shoul- der against his, their hips and thighs touching. He shifted and moved his legs. “This sure is a fast-moving stream,” he said.

“You should see it after a rain. It’s a torrent.” She paused to look at her nephews. “The boys love this,” she said fondly.

“Living at Green Oaks is good for them,” he observed.

“Quin has really taken to Snookums. I hear him talking to the cat and that’s good.”

“Great. I’m glad ole Snooks is finally earning his keep.”

She laughed and turned to look at the water and the trees they passed. It was a beautiful, sunny day, the June sun- light sparkling on the creek’s rippling surface, and it was fun to have Cal with them. She waved her hand toward the water.

“This creek carries us beneath the highway. Too bad this couldn’t have been the road from the house, it’s much shorter to the highway this way.”

“Do all the boys know how to swim?”

“Yes. Josh flounders in the water, but he can stay afloat.”

“Good. Because they’ll be around boats and water now. We need to pick a boundary. Maybe the highway bridge should be the place because several miles south of here, this creek empties into the Sabine River.”

“I don’t want them in the boat without one of us.

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