The Maverick's Christmas to Remember by Christy Jeffries

Author:Christy Jeffries [Jeffries, Christy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488093937
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-01T15:49:14.818947+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Why couldn’t I make the pie myself?” Caroline asked Thursday morning as she climbed into the passenger side of Craig’s vehicle.

For the past three days, he’d insisted on driving her to and from work and he’d always held open the door.

“Remember I told you about making sure you don’t take sides between Meemaw and Grandpac?” he asked, reaching across her legs to place the pink bakery box he’d picked up from Daisy’s yesterday on the floorboard between them. It was the closest he’d gotten to her since the night they’d kissed.

Thousands of times this week, she’d been prepared to tell him that she’d regained her memory. But then he’d call her “honey,” and her breath would bottle up in her lungs and all she could do was smile at him. Or he’d show up at her office, his boots and jeans all dusty from whichever local ranch he’d visited that day, and his concerned blue eyes and his sexy cowboy hat were a welcome sight after a long afternoon dealing with pushy vendors or mind-changing brides.

Then there was the morning when his brother had called him while they were in the truck. Craig’s Bluetooth had automatically switched on and she heard Will ask if he and Caroline wanted to carpool to Thunder Canyon for Thanksgiving.

At that point, her curiosity became stronger than her guilt and she thought that meeting his family might give her some sort of insight about the man who’d established himself as her protector, while simultaneously keeping his distance from her. Maybe he wasn’t as physically attracted to her as she was to him. This trip would give her the opportunity to find out.

Caroline reached for her seat belt. “And remember I told you that I can handle squabbling family members in my sleep? I do it at work all the time.”

“That’s the other reason I didn’t want you to make the pie. You’ve been so busy at work and every night you come home and make me these fabulous home-cooked meals when you should be resting and taking it easy. Did you know that it can take weeks for a person to recover from a concussion?”

“I know.” Caroline rolled her eyes and then sing-songed the same thing he’d been saying to her at least twice a day. “‘Just because I can’t see my injury doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.’”

Normally, she would think it was sweet that he tried so hard to take care of her, but she was running on limited time here. She needed to impress him with her domestic abilities and get him to fall in love with her so that he’d propose before Christmas. But Craig seemed to be thwarting her attempts at every turn.

While she’d been working at Mikayla Brown’s postbirth baby shower at Sunshine Farm on Sunday afternoon, he’d finished the laundry and ironed every single article of her clothing, including her sports bras, her hand towels and her Egyptian cotton bedsheets. On Monday, he’d done the grocery shopping

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