The Rancher's Miracle Baby by April Arrington

Author:April Arrington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Western Romance
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“I may not be a decent cook,” Tammy said, jerking on an oven mitt. “But I rock at icing.”

Alex leaned into his elbows on the kitchen island and smiled, watching as she spun around and opened the oven to remove a pan of freshly baked cupcakes.

After three failed attempts at baking a cake and two additional trips to the Deer Creek Market for more cake mix, Tammy had finally accepted his suggestion to try making cupcakes for Brody’s birthday party instead. And judging from the pleasant aroma filling the kitchen, he’d bet good money this batch was going to be...

She bent over, and the denim covering her curvy backside pulled tight, halting his thoughts and sending his blood south.

Damn. He stifled a groan and pressed his hands tight to the table, his palms tingling with the remembered feel of her soft curves filling them. It’d been a week since he’d held her in his arms on the porch and over one hundred and sixty-eight hours since he’d thoroughly kissed her. Not that he was keeping count.

The decorative stitching on her back pockets vanished, and she faced him, tipping the cupcakes in his direction.

“...together with lots of icing.”

He blinked, dragged his eyes up past her tempting breasts and focused on her face. “What did you say?”

“I said we could stack a few of these on top of each other and stick them together with lots of icing.” She smiled. “Then it’d at least look like a cake. Wouldn’t it, Brody?”

Alex glanced over his shoulder. Brody looked up from his seated position on the floor, grinned mischievously, then banged the wooden spoons in his hands on the metal pot between his knees. Scout barked and ran around him in circles.

“Do you think he’d like blue or yellow frosting the best?” Tammy asked, yelling over the racket.

“Both.”

She cupped her free hand to her ear and tilted her head. “Blue?”

“Both,” Alex shouted, laughing at the chaos filling his kitchen.

Lord, it felt good. So good to laugh and talk and kiss. To have life fill his home again. He hadn’t realized how empty it’d truly been until Brody and Tammy had stepped inside it.

Brody, distracted by the shiny buttons on his overalls, stopped banging the pot, tucked his chin to his chest and started picking at his straps. Scout skipped over and started gnawing Brody’s untied shoelaces.

“So you think we should use the blue and the yellow?” Tammy asked.

“Yep,” Alex said, the sight of Brody and Scout widening his smile. There wasn’t a cuter kid on the planet. “I think he’d like both.”

“And you were checking me out earlier, right?”

“Yeah.” Alex jerked upright. “Wait, what?”

“Busted.” Tammy winked, green eyes twinkling. “Not that I mind. As a matter of fact— Ouch!”

She jumped, the pan falling from her hold and clattering to the table. One cupcake bounced out and rolled across the floor. Scout darted after it, trapped it with a paw and started chomping, his loud smacks filling the kitchen. Brody cackled and banged the pot again.

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