The Mail-Order Mix-Up by Pamela Toth

Author:Pamela Toth [Toth, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Comedy, Family Life, General
ISBN: 9781459266988
Google: iLqikStQXiIC
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-07-14T18:30:00+00:00

It took a good long while for his breathing to get back to normal. With its return came a flood of common sense, too little and too late. At some point he had dragged one of the folded blankets over them. Rory lay in the crook of his arm, her eyes shut and the twin fans of her lashes edging the smudges beneath her eyes. Her hair was a wild tousle. He’d buried his face in it when he’d emptied himself into her—as irresponsibly and mindlessly as one of his own bulls.

Travis squeezed his eyes closed. Because of those irresponsible actions, he might have impregnated her. He’d certainly compromised her, taken advantage, whatever the modern terminology was. Never mind that couples fell into bed together all the time without a thought to the consequences. That wasn’t his style. In some ways, he was a traditional man.

Either his restless shifting woke her or she hadn’t been asleep. Her eyes fluttered open to reveal the still unexpected burst of navy blue that made his breath snag in his throat. Her lips, swollen from the pressure of his, curved in a soft smile. He wanted nothing more than to kiss her again, to begin again that glorious ascent that wiped out will and thought and, damn it, control from his brain as easily as wiping steam from a bathroom mirror.

Lightly Rory stroked the side of his face, the rasp of her fingertips reminding him that his stubbly whiskers must have scraped her delicate skin like sandpaper. He should ask if he’d hurt her. Didn’t think he wanted to hear the answer. Couldn’t bear to.

Instead, he asked a question that common sense demanded.

“Um, are you on the Pill or anything?”

She shifted away from him, hurt in her eyes, and he knew he’d asked perhaps the worst possible thing he could have come up with.

She shook her head, and he could see the misty, romantic afterglow fade. “It’s probably okay.” Her voice was edged with doubt. She was telling him what she figured they both wanted to hear.

Travis swallowed. His timing was terrible, his handling of this situation abominable from start to finish. Still, his personal moral code refused to let him off the hook. She’d toss his offer back in his face, he was sure, but he had to ask the question that crowded his conscience, hummed inside him like music, speeded his pulse.

He took her cold hand in his and made himself look right into her eyes. “Rory, would you marry me?”

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