Snowed In (Sleigh Ride Novella Book 1) by Alyse Miller

Author:Alyse Miller [Miller, Alyse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Siren Press
Published: 2018-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Roxanne slept soundly, and woke up thinking of the forest and craving sugarplums. She used a musky vanilla fabric spray on her sheets at home, but Mark’s bed was rich with his woodsy scent, and it felt homier to wake up in than hers did, which was as surprising as it was refreshing. Fresh morning light filtered in through curtain on the bedroom window, and the air was scented with the smell of fresh coffee and something cinnamon.

Rubbing the sleep from her eyes Roxanne pulled herself out of bed and stumbled to the small bathroom. She brushed her teeth to get rid of the dragon breath, and gave her face a quick wash with cool water from the faucet, then brushed out her hair and tamed the wild curls from last night’s wet bun into a more reasonable low ponytail. Back in the bedroom, she put her bra back on without taking off her shirt and added a quick sheen of lip gloss, and then made Mark’s bed before venturing out of the bedroom.

She found him in the kitchen, wearing his jacket unzipped over a pair of bright blue snow pants and pulling a tray out of the oven. His hair was sticking up in wayward tufts, but when he looked up at her his eyes seemed even more brilliantly green in the sunlight pouring in through the kitchen window above the sink.

“Morning,” she greeted him. “Something smells delicious.”

“Well, good morning.” He smiled at her as he set a plate of cinnamon rolls on the table and plucked an empty coffee mug from the rack hanging above the counter. He poured her a cup of coffee and set it on the table next to the plate of steaming pastries, and motioned toward bowls of cream and sugar. “Don’t get too excited,” he teased when she bypassed the coffee and reached for a cinnamon roll, “coffee is fresh ground, but the cinnamon rolls are from a can. Figured you might like something more substantial that a bit of granola and a strip of cowboy jerky.”

Roxanne took a bite, savoring the sticky sweetness as it melted on her tongue, and swallowed. “It’s amazing. I woke up with a sweet craving. Totally on carb overload after the pie, though.”

“Nah,” Mark said, picking up a roll for himself and cupping one hand underneath it as he took a bite. “You’ll work it off today in the snow.”

“Oh, that’s right!” She had almost forgotten that getting her things from her car would require a trip back through the snow, and that this time Mark wouldn’t be carrying her along the way. “Is it a long walk back to my car? How far is it?”

“Not far at all,” he grinned, pointing meaningfully toward the living room. Roxanne looked in the direction he was pointing and saw her suitcase—a hardside Tumi—waiting at the back door. “I hope you don’t mind, but I still had your car keys in my pocket and you were sleeping, so I trekked out there this morning and took care of everything.

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