The Fall of Shane MacKade by Nora Roberts

Author:Nora Roberts
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Limited
Published: 1996-11-04T23:00:00+00:00

She couldn’t even cook. Shane had never known anyone who was incapable of doing more at a stove than heating up a can of soup. And even that, for Rebecca, was a project of monumental proportions.

He didn’t mind her being there. He’d talked himself into that. He liked her company, was certain he would eventually charm her into bed, but he hated her reasons for moving in.

Her equipment was everywhere—in the kitchen, the living room, in the guest room. He couldn’t walk through his own house without facing a camera.

It baffled him that an obviously intelligent woman actually believed she was going to take videos of ghosts.

Still, there were some advantages. If he cooked, she cheerfully did the clearing-up. And it wasn’t a hardship to come in from the fields or the barn and find her at the kitchen table, making her notes on her little laptop computer.

She claimed she felt most at home in the kitchen—though she didn’t know a skillet from a saucepan—so she spent most of her time there.

He’d gotten through the first night, though it was true that he’d done a great deal of tossing and turning at the idea that she was just down the hall. And if he’d been gritty-eyed and cranky the next morning, he’d worked it off by the time he finished the milking and came in to cook breakfast.

And she came down for breakfast, he reflected. Though she didn’t eat much—barely, in his opinion, enough to sustain life. But she drank coffee, shared the morning paper with him, asked questions. Lord, the woman was full of questions.

Still, it was pleasant to have company over the first meal of the day. Someone who looked good, smelled good, had something to say for herself. The problem was, he found himself thinking about how she had looked, had smelled, what she had said, when he went out to work.

He couldn’t remember another woman hanging in his mind quite so long, or quite so strongly. That was something that could worry a man, if he let it.

Shane MacKade didn’t like to worry. And he wasn’t used to thinking about a woman who didn’t seem to be giving him the same amount of attention.

It was simply a matter of adjustment—or so he told himself. She was a guest in his home now, and a man didn’t take advantage of a guest. Which was why he wanted her out again as soon as possible—so that he could.

And if he just didn’t think overmuch about how pretty she looked, tapping away at her keyboard, those little round glasses perched on her nose, the eyes behind them dark with concentration, her long, narrow feet crossed neatly at the ankles, he didn’t suffer.

But, damn it, how was he supposed to not think about it?

When he banged a pot for the third time, Rebecca tipped down her glasses and peered at him over them. “Shane, I don’t want you to feel that you have to cook for me.”

“You’re not going to do it,” he muttered.

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