Rancher's Christmas Storm--A Western snowbound romance by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-07-15T16:21:31+00:00

Nine

“I told you,” Jericho said when Honey’s eyes finally fluttered open. “If you still had something to say then I wasn’t worthy of my arrogance.”

She gazed at him out of her narrowed eyes. “That is really the first thing on your mind?”

“Yes, ma’am. I’m always on hand for the ‘I told you so.’”

“That is deeply, deeply petty.”

“I never said I wasn’t.” And all right, it wasn’t the most romantic thing. But they weren’t romantic.

Except... She had been amazing, and he was getting impatient watching her sleep. It was the middle of the day, after all.

And you want her again.

Not that he could afford to. Not that either of them could afford this.

But hey, they were stuck here until the weather cleared, which it still hadn’t done. And as long as they could make the most of it, why shouldn’t they? As long as they were here...

“Well, fine. You have earned your arrogance.”

“Happy to hear it.”

Her stomach growled. Audibly. “I’m hungry.”

He was too. But not particularly for food.

“You can have some food. After you have a bath.”

“Hey,” she said, as he picked her up out of the bed. “I can walk, you know. You seem to have forgotten that.”

“I didn’t forget. I just like carrying you.”

It was true.

He liked the feeling of the soft weight in his arms. He liked feeling her in general.

“I’ll get you your bird book if you want.”

“I don’t want the bird book.”

He chuckled. “How about I take a bath with you?”

A flush covered her skin, and he was ridiculously pleased by it. That she was affected by them. By this.

You’ve lost your mind.

Maybe. But it didn’t seem so crazy that what he wanted was to stay here, not face what was out there. Not deal with the fact that he had a long-lost family he was supposed to be spending Christmas with. Yeah, spending time with Honey was a hell of a lot nicer.

He had run the bath already, because he hadn’t been totally sure that they would have enough hot water, and it had been pretty close. He’d warmed a couple pots up on the stove and added them to the deep claw-foot tub in the bathroom.

He deposited her in the warm water and watched the way the firelight sparkled over her damp skin. She was so damned pretty. So perfect. It made him feel... Well, it made him feel a damn sight too much. “Good,” he said. But she didn’t move at all, and he laughed as he got into the tub and lifted her, setting her back down so that she was on his lap.

She sighed, letting her head fall back against his chest. Then she tilted her head. Looking at him as best she could. “This is very strange.”

“How so?” But it made his chest tight.

“Well, just a few hours ago we were fully clothed and sitting across the room from each other talking about birds...”

“I never really talked about birds. It was mostly you talking about birds.”

“Whatever,” she said. “It’s just that.

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