Accidentally Married by Jean Oram

Author:Jean Oram [Oram, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781928198369
Publisher: Oram Productions

Jill’s home was a detached garage in the back of her sister’s yard that had been renovated into a small apartment. It was cute and had a surprisingly open feel to it, overlooking the river that wound through the town.

Jill hadn’t stopped talking since they’d arrived, explaining, as she let her dog out into his gated run, how Taylor had been named. Before he could ask what her father had suggested she “shake off” with the ownership of the rescued pup, she changed topics with a swiftness that told him there was a story there. She then mentioned how the animal spent a lot of time with her parents, and that she often babysat for her sister, who had two girls. She also mentioned that last year her little home had flooded when the river rose, destroying some of her product supplies. Hence part of her need for the loan.

Jill was preparing the guest room for him, tossing boxes around and making the perfectly organized space, which obviously doubled as her office, look almost cluttered. While she fussed, he took in the labeled containers of natural ingredients sitting on the shelf that ran above a long table to the right of the door. To the left was a bed where the boxes had been lined up. Near the door a bookshelf held marble pestles and mortars in various colors and sizes, and below that was a row of binders. He pulled one down and flipped it open, finding colored tabs, neatly labeled, with recipes inside plastic page protectors.

Jill reached across him, snatching the binder and just about tripping over her dog, which had stretched out on the floor, in the process. She placed the binder in a cardboard box along with a few others and used her foot to slide the entire box out of the room.

“Those are proprietary. Top secret. No snooping.”

“You don’t trust me?”

“Should I?” Her tone was slightly flirtatious, and he resisted the urge to grab her around the waist and drag her close enough for another kiss like that one they’d shared in the pub. He was kind of getting into this whole husband act.

She twisted out of his grip and surveyed the room with pink cheeks. “I think this should do. I’ll put out a towel and facecloth for you in the bathroom.”

“What if I’m not warm enough in here all alone?”

She picked up a folded wool blanket and chucked it at his chest.

He grinned, knowing he should let her be, but a part of him couldn’t resist poking at her, dropping a few innuendos she took so well. He knew he was unsettling her, but she was so worried about what others thought that he wanted to shift her attention to herself so she thought about herself instead. Her pleasures, her wants.

“I’ll also put out a new toothbrush on the counter.”

“Wow, we’re moving pretty fast. I get my own toothbrush?” Burke tossed the blanket onto the bed and rubbed a spot on his chest that felt bruised from the air bag deployment.

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