Monroe, Marla - The Ranchers' Bride [The Men of Space Station One #2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Marla Monroe

Author:Marla Monroe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.

Chapter Eight

Rachel had to make her aching legs walk up the stairs so she could take a shower. She felt totally wiped out. He arms hurt, her head hurt, and her calves cramped from being on them for so long standing in one place.

By the time she made it up the stairs, she couldn’t remember how many bags of meat they’d put up. To top it all off, her hands already looked like prunes from soaking the meat in the ice water to remove the blood. What she thought would be a couple of hours of work had turned into nearly five for her.

Poor Danny was still dealing with the cleanup. She had to check on Andrew and see about supper for all of them, so she hadn’t really gotten off that easy.

Andrew was sitting up in bed with an open book in front of him. He looked up when she staggered in the bedroom.

“You look whooped,” he said.

“Never actually helped butcher a cow before. It was interesting.” She headed to the shower, having seen that Andrew was doing okay.

“Do you need help in there?” he called after her.

“Thanks. I’ll be fine. I’m just going to rinse off good and then work on supper. Are you hungry?” she called back.

“A little, not much. I’m not doing anything to be hungry.”

“Your body is healing. You need the sustenance,” she reminded him, then turned on the shower.

She actually sat on the back bench for a few precious seconds, letting her aching feet rest before getting up to scrub off the dirt and blood. She lathered her hair to get the smell of blood out of it. Then she rinsed and got out to dry off. She did a quick dry on her hair with the hair dryer and pulled on a pair of shorts and a T-shirt without bothering with underwear.

By the time she had supper ready, Danny was upstairs in the shower. She carried a plate up to Andrew and then fixed Danny’s plate as well. She really wasn’t very hungry. She nibbled on the vegetables but couldn’t eat anything else. She was ready for bed.

“I’m sleeping with you two tonight. I’m tired of sleeping alone,” Danny announced when he’d finished eating.

“Good, I’m tired of sleeping without you, too. I think Andrew’s coughing is better now, anyway. You should get plenty of sleep.” She yawned and stood up. “Just stack your dishes in the sink. I’m going to bed, I think. I can’t keep my eyes open.”

She stood up and staggered to the stairs. Just as she started to take a step up, Danny walked up behind her and wrapped an arm around her.

“I’ll help you up. You look like you might fall over any minute now.”

“Just haven’t had a lot of sleep lately. I’ll be fine in the morning.” She yawned again, and this time when she finished yawning, she couldn’t get her eyes to open back up.

Danny chuckled and urged her in the direction of the bedroom before picking her up and carrying her to bed.

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