Texas Christmas Dare by Katherine Garbera

Author:Katherine Garbera
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781954894754
Publisher: Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2022-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Nico had never been the kind of man to have trouble sleeping, so as he lay awake listening to the soft sounds of Cressida’s breathing and staring at the strange ceiling, he didn’t want to delve too deeply into why he was wide awake. This night had been anything but expected. That was a reason…one might even say a fairly decent reason for not sleeping.

Except as he rubbed his hand over his chest, he knew that wasn’t it. He turned his head slightly and could just make out her form next to him. None of the details that he knew made up her face and body, but he knew she was there. He’d slept with his fair share of women and usually just rolled over and zonked out, but this was Cressida. He couldn’t help but remember the scars on her arms and legs which he guessed had come from her accident. He had wanted her. First, he’d wanted her business then once he met her, he’d wanted the woman.

He lay on his side watching her sleep. He hadn’t realized before how much of her energy was spent on projecting strength until he looked at her face in repose. He didn’t bring up her scars but they were there on her body. He saw how much she’d had to recover from, but she never really dwelled on that.

Her quiet strength came instead from weaving. It wasn’t hard to see how she’d woven a new life for herself here in Whiskey River. How she’d taken the broken basket of her life after her fiancé had died and slowly created a new, strong one for herself. Alone.

It wasn’t lost on him that she’d spent so much of the last ten years not creating connections to anyone. Though she’d lived in Whiskey River a long time, both Logan and Avery had been unaware of that.

He knew he’d dared her to date him. Dared her to let him show her his love for Christmas so he could use that to get her as a client. He wasn’t going to lie to himself about that. But he’d changed.

She’d changed him.

And that bothered him.

This was temporary. She was in his life until Christmas and then if things went well—and they usually did for him—she’d be his client. That was it. This wasn’t the big love of his life like Mama and Pops had or like Jock had found with Delilah. This was a Christmas dare, nothing more.

He couldn’t let himself forget that.

But he hadn’t seen her until tonight. This crazy night that had been a bit of a roller coaster. The kind of coaster that normally he bolted in the other direction to get away from. It had been real and exciting and scary and lusty, and a million more things all tied to this woman.

Cressida Cormac.

Temporary lover. Yet he’d be lying if he didn’t acknowledge that there was a part of him that felt a pull toward her he’d never experienced before. Like could it be love? He wondered but didn’t want that to be the reason he wasn’t sleeping.

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