Falling In Love With A Police Officer (Rich & Rugged: A Hawkins Brothers Romance Book 4) by Ellie Hall

Author:Ellie Hall [Hall, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Bachelor & Single Father, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Clean & Wholesome, Life-Changes, Lawman, Law Enforcement, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Beautiful & Feisty, Rich & Rugged: A Hawkins Brothers Romance, Family & Domestic Life, Young Child
Publisher: Ellie Hall
Published: 2019-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Owen

Owen decided that he was an idiot. A fool. A dope.

Why hadn’t he leaned in and kissed the girl, for goodness sakes? The opportunity was there; it was perfect. A crackling fire, an intensity between them that was hotter still. He couldn’t forget her cinnamon scent or the way she looked at him with her soft brown eyes.

Brynn had reflected his longing that night. They both wanted a little something more. But he also recognized in her how he felt. Scared. Not only was a fool, but he was a chicken. Oh, his brothers would’ve had a field day with that. Of all of them, he was the most restrained, had the fewest dates, liked to take things slow. He’d always wanted something meaningful. He thought he’d found it in Nadine, but she quickly demonstrated that her own demons were more powerful than their feelings for each other.

“Hey, Turkey.” Brynn’s voice shocked him out of his thoughts.

They’d spent the last week since the almost-kiss in each other’s orbit. He’d pick Harper up early from the farmhouse, they’d have breakfast, he’d get her ready for school, and then drop her off. He’d go home, sleep a few hours, go to Room Four in the afternoon, head back to the resort with Harper and have some quality time before bringing her back to the farmhouse for dinner at six. Repeat. It was the best arrangement he could come up with to maximize time with his daughter. She seemed happier and loved the progress she and Brynn were making on the room makeover. He tried not to think about which one of his brother’s had rented her the place.

She bumped her shoulder into his. A pleasant jolt rocked him at her touch. “It looks like you’ve shredded this piece of paper into oblivion.” She took a scrap of paper he’d absentmindedly torn apart while intending to organize field trip permission slips and thinking about what a chicken he was.

Their hands brushed, sending a tingling sensation up his arm that was no less powerful than the first time they’d held hands. Harper was big on that and he found himself wanting to hold more than Brynn’s hand. Could he handle her heart? Would she let him?

“It was a duplicate.” His voice was froggy from not speaking for a while.

“I really appreciate everything you’ve been doing to help out in here. Seriously, it’s like night and day since the beginning of the year. I’d be here well into the evenings, scrambling to get things done. That’s why my bathroom redo took so long. I’d spend, like, ten minutes a day on it.”

“My father used to have this terrible saying. Well, actually, I suppose it was a question. Idiom? Maxim? Anyway, I’m not the greatest with words. It went like this. ‘How do you eat an elephant?’”

Brynn wrinkled her nose. “Firstly, ew. Secondly, you don’t. Thirdly...” She tapped her chin with one finger. “You eat an elephant with a giant fork?”

Owen’s expression relaxed into a smile.

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