The Fake Bride Loophole - A Mountain Man Romance by Layla Valentine

Author:Layla Valentine [Valentine, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-02T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Daley

Thirteen hours have passed since that kiss, and I still can’t get it out of my head. I’m constantly on edge, every muscle in my body taut and tight with tension that just won’t go away.

Michelle hasn’t said anything about the kiss, either. We had dinner after the Cline encounter—she cooked a marvelous vegetable and bacon pie, as promised, while I treated her to some wine and a secret stash of dinner mints I keep for special occasions.

Thirteen hours have passed, and my mind is still swirling. My very soul is ravaged.

I did it. I didn’t even think it through.

She turned me on and up to eleven with how she confronted Cline and Sykes. Michelle is frickin’ fearless. My kind of woman, and then some. By the time I realized what was happening, I had already tasted her.

Thirteen hours, and I wouldn’t like another thirteen to pass without another kiss. I want it. I want to hold her in my arms and lose myself inside a beautiful dream where nothing and no one can hurt us. I’m slightly uncomfortable in my seat. It’s raining buckets outside, so I’m sticking to the living room this morning, waiting to hear the floor’s gentle creaking upstairs. A sign that she’s awake.

I want to kiss her again. I know it’s a dangerous thought, but… how do I stop it? How do I wean off her when she is so recklessly addictive? I don’t regret it. No. I just want more. Even my coffee doesn’t taste the same.

“Morning,” Michelle’s voice echoes from the top of the staircase.

Dammit, I’m frozen. All I can do is turn my head, look up to find her wrapped in one of my towel robes, and smile.

She comes down, carefully treading in a pair of thick woolen socks. I catch a glimpse of her bare calf as she reaches the bottom and walks over to the kitchen.

“How’d you sleep?” she asks.

I need to find my words again. This is ridiculous and so unlike me.

“Like a baby,” comes my reply.

I could pretend to read a book or something. Maybe turn on the TV? I don’t have any cable, just what I can stream off my phone. I was irritated by the idea of 5G at first, till I discovered I could watch Johnny Carson with nothing but a decent phone and a good TV. But I fail to move, simply holding my coffee as I’m planted in the middle of the sofa.

Michelle comes back from the kitchen with a mug of her own and takes over the armchair. She eyes me carefully at first, smiling whenever our eyes meet. I know she’s not indifferent, but I don’t know what any of this is, either. Ours is an arrangement, a friendly settlement. A favor she is offering to help me out. I would be an idiot to spoil it, to throw it away. I’ve got too much respect for her. But those lips, goddammit, they’re beggin’.

“Have you heard from the sheriff yet?” she asks.

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