The Bright Spot by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2024-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

And so the nights went for the next week. With Jameson often working late and Luna not being a great sleeper, they often ran into each other late at night, usually in the kitchen.

He’d asked if he should go back to his own cabin. She’d looked at him for a long moment, then shaken her head. Fine by him, he enjoyed her company even if it wasn’t of the naked variety. He had no idea why she hadn’t kicked him out, she tended to keep her own counsel, but he was grateful.

There’d been more kissing and touching, but it hadn’t gone further. It was almost as if they both felt gun-shy and afraid to mess up their tenuous connection, not to mention their partnership.

One late night after Luna had gone to bed, he took a shower, having to slide aside a few bras that were drying on the shower rod, all of which were lacy or silky, and skimpy. He thought about her wearing the sexy lingerie beneath her jeans and T-shirts, and the shower took a little longer than he’d intended.

After, he realized he didn’t have any clean clothes for the next day—unless he wanted to go back into a suit. Instead, he headed to the washing machine in the kitchen with an armful of clothes, and shoved everything into one load, whites and colors together. He could almost hear his mom’s voice admonishing him in his ear. Smiling to himself, he sat at the table in knit boxers and went back to his laptop.

An hour later the clock struck midnight as he pulled out a pair of jeans from the dryer.

He was just pulling them up when he heard footsteps coming his way. He knew exactly what to expect now, and still, as she rounded the corner in her pj’s—tonight a cami and the tiniest shorts he’d ever seen—she stole his breath.

She stopped short, as if him shirtless in her kitchen had taken her breath as well.

“Couldn’t sleep?” he asked.

“Hungry.”

So was he, but not for food. Still, he made her a quesadilla and handed it over.

“These have become an addiction.”

He opened his mouth to say he felt the same about her, but just then she pulled her quesadilla in half, and when the cheese stretched between the two sides, she snagged the melted strings of cheese—with her tongue.

“Don’t you think?” she asked.

He’d lost track of their conversation. That’s what happened when the blood in his brain drained for parts south. “What?”

“There’s got to be something we can do to fix this.” She licked some cheese off her thumb with a suction sound that didn’t help matters any. She finished eating, then sighed in exhaustion.

Living on the farm as he was, he’d become privy to her schedule, which was rising before dawn to help feed the animals, making sure they were all taken care of, making sure everything was cleaned up and looking good for the people who would pay to come in, and so much more. In his greatest imagination, he couldn’t have managed a day in her life.

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