Finding Her Men [Men of the Border Lands 7] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Marla Monroe

Author:Marla Monroe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2012-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

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“Wake up, sleepyhead.” Grant’s voice woke her from a nice dream where they were a happy family with two kids.

She frowned and grumbled, but opened her eyes and started to get up. Grant stood up with her and let her slide down his body, holding on to her until she’d found her legs.

“I better go start the chili. What time is it? Where’s Luke?”

“It’s a little after two and Luke is in the kitchen getting ready to go out with me to check the animals.”

Valerie nodded and trudged into the other room. She was still half-asleep and feeling grumpy. She wasn’t sure why. Maybe it was because her dream wasn’t real.

“Hey, baby. How do you feel after your nap?”

Before she could say anything, Grant spoke up for her.

“Grumpy.”

Luke chuckled and pulled her in for a hug. “Don’t be grumpy. You have new clothes.”

She smiled and nodded. Then she turned to work on the chili as the men finished dressing for the outside. Valerie looked over her shoulder as they opened the door and hurried out into the snow. This time, no snow fell into the room for her to clean up. She guessed the men had been able to shovel off the porch enough to keep it from falling in when they opened the door. For that, she was very grateful.

Once she had the chili simmering, she made up a batch of pan bread and set it aside with a cloth over it until the men returned. Then she set up the washroom to do laundry and washed her new clothes. By the time she had the majority of them done, her hands were shriveled up into wrinkly prunes and her back was killing her.

Because it was too cold outside to hang up clothes, she had to hang them in the kitchen and in front of the fire in the living room. It would take some time for them to dry, too. She would need to turn them around to get both sides dry.

Nearly two hours later, the men lumbered through the door, stomping their feet on the porch before breaching the warmth of the kitchen. She pulled out the mop and cleaned up the small mess they left when taking off their boots.

“I’ll fix you some coffee. Give me a few minutes.”

Valerie set the pot on the stove and spooned coffee grounds into the cloth she used to keep them out of the liquid. Then she turned the flame up to boil the water.

“Is everything all right out there?”

“As well as can be expected. The cattle are beginning to spread out some since the snow has stopped. The temperature doesn’t seem to be quite as cold out there, either. We may be getting a warming trend.” Grant set his hat on one of the hooks by the door.

“Great, that means mud instead of snow to clean up.”

“We’ll do our best to keep it to a minimum,” Luke assured her.

“I’m not fussing at you. You can’t help it.

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