Touching the Moon by Lisa M Airey

Author:Lisa M Airey [Airey, Lisa M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938436055
Publisher: AKE
Published: 2012-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

23

Julie knew the road as soon as Gray turned onto it. “You are taking me to your cabin?”

“Uh huh.”

“I thought we were going to discuss the state finals over breakfast.”

“At the cabin.”

“Stale Pop Tarts?”

“No. As a matter of fact I have a fruit salad, scrambled eggs, bacon, and mimosas.”

“At the cabin? How?”

“I packed a cooler with ice.”

“Clever man.”

“With so many items on the menu though, you’ll have to help cook.”

“Not a worry. I can cook.”

“Yes, you can.”

She stepped inside and stood, sweeping the room with her eyes. The cabin hadn’t changed, but she had. She turned to look at Gray, but he had his back to her, rummaging around in the cooler, ferreting out the eggs and bacon. She joined him at the propane cook-top and helped prepare their meal.

He bumped against her gently as they worked, teasing playfully, his hands ever reaching for her hip, her waist, a shoulder, a ticklish rib.

“Watch those hands,” she groused.

“The better to feel you with, my dear.”

She took a wooden spoon to his knuckles. “Focus.”

“I am.”

“On breakfast.”

After they had eaten and cleared the table, Gray fixed them both another mimosa and unfurled a thick wad of blueprints across the tabletop.

“I have some news,” he said. “I’m going to build a house, a very large log cabin complete with running water, electricity, and heat. It will be a real home and I am going to build it very close to where we are now.”

“What brought this on?”

He shrugged. “I need a nicer place to take you.”

Julie was thunderstruck. “Gray, you have an apartment in town.”

“It doesn’t feel right.” He closed his eyes. “When I think of you, Julie, I think of this mountain and the snow, the smell of wood smoke on your skin, your hand on my chest and your head on my shoulder.”

Julie swallowed.

“I held your body and your trust.”

“Gray, I’m sorry I can’t give you more… of me.”

He gave her a tender smile. “What we share is enough.”

“Are you sure?”

He nodded. “Sex isn’t everything, you know.”

“Have you ever…” She let the question drop.

“No,” he said, his expression pained. “I haven’t.”

“Do you want to?” she asked.

He smiled, laughter in his eyes. “I am a man, Julie Hastings. I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t. I’d be lying through my teeth if I told you that I didn’t want to make love to you. But, when you’re ready, Julie. And not until.”

“There’s been no one before me?”

He shook his head uncomfortably. “There was a girl once, someone I liked very much, but her parents didn’t approve.”

“Why not?” she asked.

“They didn’t trust me with her,” he said softly. He lifted his eyes to meet hers. “I frighten many people, Julie. It’s my size, my strength, my looks. Plus…”

“Plus?”

“Well, my father didn’t treat my mother very well.”

“I see,” she said, her voice was a whisper.

“I guess they thought, like father, like son,” he said. “I can’t blame them.”

“They were wrong.”

“Thank you for saying so.”

He stared at her, his eyes soft. She swallowed. “Where are you going to build your house?”

“Just beyond the ridge line.

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