The Rancher’s Unexpected Nanny by Mary Sue Jackson & Leslie North

Author:Mary Sue Jackson & Leslie North [Jackson, Mary Sue & North, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

Callie slept poorly after returning from her first official date with Finn. It wasn’t that she wasn’t tired—because she was. The whole going-on-a-first date thing had been more stressful than she had wanted to admit, and by the time they got back to the house, she’d had all she could do to stifle her yawns. There had been some awkwardness she didn’t think either of them had anticipated when they had gotten to the front door, and it had ended in another more awkward, much faster kiss than the one they had shared on the sidewalk after leaving the Paint ‘n’ Sip. After they’d said their goodnights, she had slowly ascended the stairs to the guest room she was calling her own for the summer, savoring the delicious feeling of muscles that were truly tired and ready to sink into bed.

Except that when she had herself all tucked in, she found she was still wide awake, almost as if she had taken a detour and chugged a whole pot of coffee and then promptly blocked it out.

It was the kiss. That kiss was making it impossible for her to drop off to sleep. Every time she shut her eyes, listening to the soothing sounds of her white noise machine, all she could see was Finn's warm, kind eyes. The whole picture was so clear in her mind that she could almost believe they were still standing beneath the street lamp, both covered in a fine mist of rainfall. Her entire body buzzed with the recent memory, made worse by the knowledge that Finn was right there under the same roof, only a few doors down.

“I wonder what he sleeps in,” she murmured to herself before burying her face beneath her pillow in embarrassment. Even alone in her room, she couldn’t stand to think such a thought. She had a feeling that once she went down that road, she wouldn’t be able to find her way back again.

The next day, she was tired, but it was a happy, distracted kind of tired, not the kind that made a person cranky. It didn’t hurt that she had almost nothing to do with herself. Finn was carrying out his intentions to practice all things rodeo for the majority of the day, and Stacy had come to fetch Wendy to drop her off at a friend’s place for a sleepover. Callie had the house all to herself, and she padded around the place in her bare feet, breathing in the scent of old polished wood and the cookies she had just taken out of the oven. She was moving as if in a trance when her phone rang, making her sorry to be startled back into reality. She would have been happy to live in the memory of that kiss for at least a little while longer.

“Hey, Mom,” she answered, flopping back onto the couch and using her free hand to flip on the stereo with the remote, “what’s happening?”

“What’s happening?” came the answer,

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