Kendra Leigh Castle by Call of the Highland Moon

Author:Call of the Highland Moon [Moon, Call of the Highland]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-12T14:51:16.739000+00:00

Chapter Ten

ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT LIVING IN A SMALL TOWNthat could be both a blessing and a

curse was the tendency for news to travel at roughly the speed of sound. As Carly stood at the door of

Bodice Rippers, watching the slow, swirling fall of snowflakes in the fading half-light and feeling the ache

in the arches of her feet that always meant a productive day, she had to concede that today was one of

the ones where it leaned decidedly toward blessing.

She flipped the sign to CLOSED, braced her palms in the small of her back, and stretched. Who would

have thought that word she had somehow found a cover-hunkquality Highlander to work in the store for

the day would have brought out the entire female (and, truth be told, a little of the male) population of a

town that was still, for all practical purposes, snowed in? The predicted rotten weather, however, hadn’t

returned, and apparently everyone was tired of being cooped up. The plows had been out in force, and

although the snow banks were piled several feet high in some places, Jamison Winslow, who owned the

sporting goods shop just down the street, had been busy with his extremely large snowblower clearing

the sidewalks all morning.

Kinnik’s Harbor was waking back up, and apparently, in desperate need of entertainment. Well, Carly

thought with a smile, they wouldn’t be hearing any complaintsfrom her. And Celestine and her mouth, she

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decided, were deserving of some freebies the next time they came in. Because it had been the best day,

profit-wise, since the weather had turned cold, gray, and snowy almost a month ago.

Fall-That-Was-Really-Winter was an old tradition in this part of New York, and this year had been no

exception. The problem was, when it happened, it was always a crapshoot as to whether people were

actually going to work up the energy to get off their rear ends and leave their houses.

Apparently, Carly mused as she heard the scrape of a box across the floor and an irritable sigh behind

her, she’d found the secret for making them do it. All she had to do was have a muscular hunk in the

shop bending and lifting all day, every day, and she’d be a millionaire inside of a year.

Six months if she got him to wear a kilt, she thought, picturing it with a wicked grin.

Of course, she would also be hot, bothered, and continually, annoyingly jealous of the masses of

eye-batting, tight-shirt wearing females who flocked in to hang all over this particular hunk all day. She

pursed her lips, turned her head towards her grumpy, unwilling volunteer. It was entirely possible, she

decided, that the ulcers she was bound to get wouldn’t be worth it.

She had to bite back her smile when she looked at Gideon. Judging by the sour expression on his face,

the rumpled, slightly sweaty appearance of him, and the large, book-filled box at his feet that he looked

very close to drop-kicking, he wouldn’t see the humor in anything right about now.

“You wanted thesewhere,Highness?”

Ouch,Carly thought with a small wince.

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