Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 138588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 693(@200wpm)___ 554(@250wpm)___ 462(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 138588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 693(@200wpm)___ 554(@250wpm)___ 462(@300wpm)
This was the question she’d been afraid to ask. She’d started this whole weekend with the knowledge that it wouldn’t be forever. But what if Wyatt had been honest with her? What if he hadn’t been trying to get into her panties and he really did have a thing for her? She definitely had a thing for him and didn’t see why they wouldn’t explore the connection between them. Unless he only wanted a woman Sawyer wanted, too.
“Sabrina Leal, you are not getting away from me. I worked too hard to get you right where I wanted,” he said, kissing her palm. “Marie did bring me the complaints. I’m pretty sure they got lost on my desk.”
“You asshole.” But she said it with a smile. It was nice to be pursued. It made it easy to make the decision. “And don’t worry about the town. If they could forgive Alexei Markov, who literally brought an entire Russian syndicate down on their heads once and then an assassin, they’ll forgive you for being born. You didn’t have a choice. And when you did, you got out. You’re kind of in the best place possible for second chances.”
“All right, then. I’ll stop with the warnings. And you’ll stop going out with those deputies,” he said. “I didn’t like watching you with them.”
Such a stalker. They would have to work on the behavior. “They were nice.”
“But they weren’t for you,” he said solemnly. “I’m for you. Sawyer’s for you. Even if he’s too stubborn to admit it.”
She needed him to be sure. “You have to be ready for him to never change his mind.”
“How about you? You okay with just you and me?”
She was more than okay. “I am. I’ll be honest, I’ve wondered if Sawyer wouldn’t be interested in joining us from time to time, but I don’t know if I can handle a relationship like that for very long. Wyatt, you should know I went a little wild this weekend, but I want a marriage at some point. I want a family. I’m not saying you have to ask me to marry you. But I would like to date someone who is open to the possibility.”
“I am open to the possibility.” He leaned over and kissed her forehead. “And I hope you remember I’m new to this whole dating thing, so I’ll probably get some things wrong. We didn’t date in the MC. There were two kinds of women…”
She shook her head and put a finger to his lips. “Nope. You can keep all those explanations. I’ll handle our dating life. How about we have dinner at Trio tomorrow night? Ooo, or I could come to Hell on Wheels.”
“Trio it is.” Wyatt kissed her, brushing his lips over hers this time. “There’s actual food at Trio. All we have is fried stuff. It’s starting to affect my gut. Trio sounds like the perfect place to go for our first date. Everyone will know we’re together, and they’ll stop trying to set my girl up.”
“Well, I’m glad to hear that since you seem to have skipped a couple of phases,” a deep voice said from behind the closed door. “Of regular dating. Like coming over to meet the girl’s family before you spend a weekend together.”
Sabrina screamed and coffee went flying as she tried to duck under the covers because the voice had come from right behind the closed door, and it had not been Sawyer.
“Sorry, sweetie. I wanted to come up and check on you,” Mel said from the hallway. “Cassidy and your sister have been real worried about you. I reminded them you’re a smart, capable woman, and Sawyer and Wyatt are good men. But your sister is worried they’ll take advantage, and Cass is real worried about alien activity. You’re of a breeding age, so we have to be careful. Now I told them the Neluts won’t be looking to mate for another couple of months, and Sawyer’s granddaddy was always real careful about making sure this place wasn’t attractive to them. That’s why there’s always wildflowers around. They can’t stand the smell.”
“My fake dad is here,” Sabrina whispered. “And I’m naked.”
Wyatt ducked under the covers with her. “We can stay here. Maybe he’ll go away.”
Mel proved he wasn’t going anywhere soon. “Elisa wanted to come up herself, but I explained if she was on the back of the snowmobile, we wouldn’t have any place to put you. And hers isn’t rigged right to get all the way up here. It’s better in the valley.”
“He’s not going away.” She’d told her sister she wasn’t going to go wild. And then she’d gone wild, and now she felt like a teenager who’d gotten caught.
“Is he going to kill me? Is that what fake dads do?” Wyatt asked.
“Sabrina, you okay in there?” Mel asked.