Marriage, Maverick Style! by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The next few days were awful. Tessa missed him terribly. Her whole body seemed to ache with longing for him—which, really, was ridiculous. She would be seeing him again in three days, on Wednesday, when he flew her to him in LA.

And he kept in close touch, carrying on a constant conversation with her via text. Plus, two or three times a day, one or the other of them would find a reason they just had to talk to the other immediately. Then they would play phone tag until whoever couldn’t talk was available—often that would be at night, when his long workday was through. Those calls inevitably ended in really good phone sex.

She truly was never out of contact with him. But she yearned for him, anyway. And every minute she wasn’t on the phone with him dragged by in slow motion.

There was another slight problem, too. As of Monday, her period was officially late.

But she refused to worry over it, reminding herself that it had been late before and always came eventually. And hello! Three condom wrappers plus the morning-after pill. How could she possibly be pregnant? It made no sense.

It was the excitement, that was all, of being wildly in love, of longing for Carson. Not to mention the upheaval of not really knowing what to do about it all.

Should she follow her heart to LA, change her life for him—as she’d done for Miles? Or should she stick with one of her earlier plans, which weren’t all that solid, either: stay in Bozeman, or try to make a go of it in Rust Creek Falls?

Finally, Wednesday morning came. At nine fifteen, she boarded Carson’s plane at the Kalispell airport. When the plane touched down in Santa Monica, he had a car waiting for her. Forty-five minutes later, she was greeted at his front door by his housekeeper, Sharon, who took her suitcase to the master suite and gave her a quick tour of Carson’s gorgeous, modern house, one whole side of which—the one facing the Pacific—was made of glass.

There was a gym in the basement and an infinity pool beyond the wall of windows—a whole section of which rolled up like a big garage door, making it possible to combine the living room and the massive deck into one beautiful indoor-outdoor room. The kitchen was enormous, all stainless steel and stark white cabinetry, with top-of-the-line appliances.

Sharon explained that dinner was ready to be popped into the oven and an assortment of cheeses and meats, fresh fruits and crudités, along with fresh-baked bread and several varieties of crackers, were all ready and waiting for her should she feel like a snack.

If none of those suited, the pantry was full and there was more to choose from in the fridge. Sharon jotted her number on the pad at the end of the counter. “Just in case you need anything that I might be able to help you with. The beach is lovely today,” she added. “Simply take the stairs down at the edge of the deck.

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