Winning Back His Wife (Camp Firefly Falls Book 1) by Gwen Hayes & Zoe York

Author:Gwen Hayes & Zoe York [Hayes, Gwen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

2013

Camp Firefly Falls

Michael stretched his legs out along the couch, pressing his back against the worn, overstuffed arm as he got comfortable. Heather's lips twisted in amusement as she watched him settle. She was going to wait for him to answer her question…and he was going to stretch it out because he was having too much fun.

They'd been hashing out their different ideas for almost an hour.

He loved wearing her down. When had they stopped talking like this? Debating for hours until one of them finally admitted—grudgingly—that the other's idea had more merit.

"Don’t look at me like you know you're three arguments away from a celebratory ice cream sundae," she growled, but her eyes flicked to the freezer.

Ah ha. So she had ice cream. The sundae tradition started in their senior year, when they found themselves pitted against each other in a business class competition.

She'd kicked his ass, and instead of yelling at him when he was grouchy about it that night—when they'd gone back to their little apartment just off-campus—she'd made him a chocolate sundae.

Winner gets bragging rights, she'd said. Loser gets whipped cream.

That had been the night he'd decided to propose to her. Because she was more than he'd ever deserved. Because she was gorgeous and smart and funny and kind. Because he loved her with all of his being, and even more so when she trumped him good.

But today, he was the victor. So she'd get the sundae, and if he was really lucky, she'd see that he was trying his damnedest to be for her what she'd been for him all these years.

What she'd been for him. That was it.

"Back to basics," he said slowly. "Back to nature?" Her eyes lit up despite herself. He grinned. "Get back to what really matters."

Her lips parted. He had her. Leaning forward, he snagged his legal pad from her hands and scrawled that across the paper in big, bold letters.

Around the slogan, the rest of what he'd sketched before flared out as if he'd planned it like that. Treetop walks. Ziplining. Overnight camping. Really challenging stuff. Nothing fluffy. And workshops led by national experts.

She'd been right. His first instincts were too slick. Too corporate. But she'd pushed him to find the raw, real edge of the idea. Together, they could work some serious magic.

He leaned back again and held up his sketch pad like it was a PowerPoint presentation at the front of a boardroom.

"Get your team back to what really matters," he said again. His voice was unexpectedly husky as he held her gaze. "Not the first time you've reminded me of that, is it?"

Warmth flooded her gaze as she caught her lower lip between her teeth. Her cheeks turned pink.

He wanted to pull her on top of him and toss the notepads onto the floor, but they needed this. He needed to work through his biases and figure out how he could really help her. She needed to see that he was truly on board.

"Overnight camping, done right, would be a key way to differentiate Camp Firefly Falls in the marketplace," he added.

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