The Rancher's Surprise Baby by Trish Milburn

Author:Trish Milburn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Mandy’s heart rate still hadn’t returned to normal by the time they reached Ben’s truck, though she’d admit that she wasn’t sure how much was due to temporarily thinking she might be headed to jail and how much was a result of the way things seemed to be changing with Ben. Every time he’d touched her throughout the movie, it had sent a jolt all the way through her. A jolt of hyperawareness and longing.

“You okay?” he asked as he stepped up next to her on the passenger side of the truck.

“Not sure. It felt as if my stomach dropped to my feet back there.”

“You know this calls for payback, right?”

She shook her head. “Oh no, I’m not escalating this. I don’t want to worry that the next time I’m having a nice evening a cannonball is going to land in the middle of it.”

Ben took a step closer to her. “You were having a nice time, huh?”

Her breath caught. “Uh, yeah. It was a good movie.”

He lessened the distance between them by half, making him seem so much taller. “That’s all?”

“The food was good, too.” Why couldn’t she just say she liked how she felt when he touched her?

Because for some reason, it scared her half to death.

“It was,” he said, so close now she feared he’d hear her pulse racing. “Only one thing missing.”

“Wha—”

Ben’s hands rested on her shoulders a moment before he lowered his lips to hers. She’d swear on her life she heard the sizzle and pop of her nerves short-circuiting. There had been kisses in her past—at least she’d thought there had been. But they paled in comparison to the gentle but firm pressure of Ben’s mouth against hers, the way the efforts of a preschool baseball player would when compared to those of a major leaguer.

Her hands went to his ribs and she so wanted to let them roam. As visions of unbuttoning his shirt to find what he hid beneath danced in her head, she somehow maintained a hold on just enough sanity to not act on that desire. After all, they were out where half the town could see them.

As if he’d had the same thought, Ben eased away from her, planting a quick kiss on her nose before breaking contact altogether.

Mandy bit her bottom lip to keep from whimpering. When Ben gave her a grin that said he knew exactly what he’d done to her, she narrowed her eyes.

“Don’t get too full of yourself.”

He just laughed as he opened the door for her. She rolled her eyes but allowed him to hold her hand as she heaved herself up into the truck.

Even with all the cars leaving the park, it still took less than five minutes for them to reach A Good Yarn. When Ben pulled into a parking space right in front of the store, he wrapped her hand in his.

“I had a good time tonight, too,” he said. “We should do it again.”

The fizzy feeling came back.

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