Here Comes The Groom: Special Forces #1 by Karina Bliss

Author:Karina Bliss [Bliss, Karina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karina Bliss
Published: 2017-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Jo woke the next morning desperate to salvage something out of last night’s slash and burn. But first she needed to breakfast with Nan and catch up on her workload at the Chronicle. That included scheduling a final meeting with CommLink. Even that couldn’t cheer her up. She jumped every time her office phone rang but it was never the call she wanted and Dan didn’t return the messages she left him.

By the time she finally pulled up at the farmhouse it was close to five and her nerves were shot. Dan was a distant silhouette, working on the west ridge. He would have seen her car arriving so Jo waited. Five minutes passed, ten and he made no move to come down.

Well, what did she expect?

Swapping her shoes for the smallest pair of gum boots on the porch, Jo started climbing in as direct a line as the electric fences allowed. A mob of glossy black bulls with massive shoulders, skinny rumps and surly expressions tracked her progress.

“He’ll forgive me,” she told them. He has to.

The weather had been moody all day, trying on all four seasons like a teenage girl who couldn’t decide what to wear. As she climbed, the wind picked up, chilling as the sun began to dip behind the horizon. Belatedly Jo remembered she’d left her jacket in the car, but her heels were already starting to burn in the oversized boots so she pushed on.

Dan was bent over a concrete water trough, his arms immersed to the elbow. Splashes of mud and water stained his old gray T-shirt and jeans. When she was within a hundred yards, he straightened. Putting down the dripping pliers, he dried his arms on a rag from the toolbox on the tray of the ATV and waited, arms folded. Jo swallowed. He had his soldier face on. Granite. Impassive. Suddenly the bulls didn’t look as menacing.

Her heel was burning like a live coal but Jo refused to limp. She wasn’t going for the pity vote. Still, she was pathetically grateful when the dogs came running to welcome her, all hot breath and wagging tails. Pausing to pat them, she called casually, “You’re putting in long hours.”

“There’s a lot to do.”

Jo noticed her hands were trembling and stuck them into the pocket of her trousers. “Well, you’re more than capable.”

He stared at her, incredulous, before returning to his work.

Taking a deep breath Jo closed the last few yards. Cattle had churned the overflow around the trough into thick mud; Dan’s gum boots were caked with it. She stopped on dry ground. “I guess you know why I’m here.”

“Yeah.” Reaching into the trough with one hand he pulled out a circular valve and inspected it. “You’ve come to apologize for telling the truth.”

“And to confess to a lie,” she said.

He glanced up.

“I denied feeling a sexual attraction because I wanted to reinforce my argument that we shouldn’t get married.”

Dan swished the valve clean.

Jo persevered. “So when I found myself climbing

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