Welcome Home by Emily Mims

Author:Emily Mims
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi

Chapter Four

Tommy Joe shut his eyes to the morning sun peeking through the window shades and tried to convince himself to go back to sleep, but the brightness and angle of the light told him the sun was up and had been for a while. It was time to get up and face the music, as it were. Still, he lay frozen for a few minutes and let himself relive the lovemaking he and Christi shared the night before.

What would be Christi’s take on it? As promised, he’d kissed and touched and caressed her as he knew she loved to be touched. She’d flown apart in his arms, whimpering deep in her throat as he made damn sure she enjoyed climax after climax. But that had only been half the story. It was the other half that had Tommy Joe worried.

Well, there was no way around it. Regardless of his hopes, his lovemaking wasn’t what it used to be. Yes, he could still function some, and the sensible part of him was damn grateful for that, but he was far from the horny, insatiable cowboy she’d fallen in love with. That stung, especially after hearing Doug’s words last night. He and Christi would have to talk about going forward, and he was afraid what she would have to say to him at the end. Yes, she’d promised to try to work through everything, but was what he could offer her these days enough, or would she want to find another man, one who could make love to her like a woman like she deserved?

Where was she? He would give anything not to talk about it this morning, but she’d been right last night. They had to start tackling all of their concerns head-on, starting with this. If she decided he wasn’t man enough for her, he would just have to understand. He loved her enough to do whatever she needed.

He sat up and pulled himself to the edge of the bed then did a double-take at the time on the alarm clock. Good grief, he’d slept away half the morning! Christi had probably been up for hours.

Cursing a little at the time it took to dress, Tommy pulled on jeans and a disreputable old T-shirt before adding a threadbare western shirt to ward off the mild morning chill. He moved toward his usual spot in front of the window, but he stopped dead as he spotted Christi waving him to from outside. Intrigued, he wheeled himself out to the barn where Christi was struggling to lift a heavy hay bale into Muffin’s feeder. Some calves were watching, waiting for their hay.

“Here, you’re stronger than me,” she called. “You finish feeding these darlings while I go make coffee.”

An enigmatic expression on her face, she leaned down and gave him a hard, swift kiss. Tommy fought back surprise as she dropped a pair of work gloves and wire cutters in his lap, and before he could protest she hot-footed it out of the barn and up the front porch stairs into the house.

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