go home. They’d take care of any cleaning up.
When she arrived at her house, there were no other cars in her dark driveway.
“Looks as if it’ll be just Ranger and me tonight,” she said to herself.
She went in through the back and noticed the warmth.
Someone had lit the woodstove.
She walked into the living room, and Nick was there, stretched out on her couch with Ranger on his bed by the woodstove.
“Locks, Rose,” Nick said, shaking his head. “Locks.”
He was in jeans and a soft-looking sweater, and he had her head spinning even more. But she frowned at Ranger. “Some watchdog you are.”
Her golden retriever yawned at her, then rolled onto his side and went back to sleep.
Nick was on his feet. “All these months, I beat myself up for taking advantage of you last June.”
“You didn’t—”
“I know.” He locked his eyes with hers and smiled. “I didn’t take advantage of you. I fell in love with you.”
“Nick.”
It was all she had a chance to say as he lifted her into his arms and carried her to the bedroom. Outside her window, Cameron Mountain was outlined against the stars, and she pictured Jo and Elijah and Hannah and Sean, and herself now, with Nick, and she knew that her father was at peace.
“I belong with you,” Nick said as he laid her on the bed. “That’s all that matters to me.”
“I love you, Nick,” she whispered. “Always and forever.”
ISBN: 978-1-4268-7435-2
COLD DAWN
Copyright © 2010 by Carla Neggers.
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