And if he did, there was something wrong with him. He was like a full-on ax murderer or something.
She shoved that thought to the side. At least she had told Rose where she was going today. And her other sister was the police chief. So, Rose would tell Pansy, and Pansy would come up guns blazing if Iris were gone for too long. So, there was that.
“That would figure,” she thought. “I try to do something out of my comfort zone, and I walked myself into a horror movie.”
Yeah. It was just a little bit too on the nose.
But she was determined, and she wasn’t going to back down now. Stealing herself, she picked her way over the uneven ground and walked up the porch, nearly losing her balance on a loose board. The place was an absolute dive.
The wood was old, and part of it was covered in moss. The siding was split, and the porch… Well, she was afraid she was going to fall right through it.
She took a breath, and knocked on the door. And waited.
“This was stupid,” she muttered under her breath. There was no way anyone was actually here. There was no way anyone could actually… Live here.
But then, she heard footsteps. And she waited.
The door jerked open, and her heart tried to take a hard fast beat through the front of her chest. Because standing in the doorway was the biggest man she’d ever seen. Tall and broad, a black cowboy hat resting low on his head.
His eyes were wild, intense. If she’d hoped to find a welcome there, she could see she wouldn’t. He had a full, dark beard, and tattoos running up his massive forearms.
He said nothing. He only stared her down, the glint in his blue eyes so hard it made her feel like she was pinned to the spot.
But she had left her truck halfway down the mountain, trapped behind a fallen tree. She had hiked up this narrow road… And no amount of glaring was going to deter her from her mission.
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A Nine-Month Temptation
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