The Witch And The Werewolf. Michele Hauf
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Название: The Witch And The Werewolf
Автор: Michele Hauf
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Эротическая литература
Серия: Mills & Boon Nocturne
isbn: 9781474063548
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“That is, if you can trust me with Peanut. I have babysat a lot.”
“Oh, I trust you.”
“Yeah? But you didn’t want me to hold him just now at the table.”
“Sorry. He’s my boy and...well, you’re new.”
“I get it.” She clasped his hand. “You’re a protective alpha wolf. Do not apologize for that. Ever. Now. I want to see this strange but interesting bathroom. Can we slip out with Peanut sleeping?”
“Yep. I’ve got a baby monitor in the bathroom so I can hear him if I’m taking a shower. But I promise you, it’s nothing to get excited about.”
“Any outhouse that isn’t two holes in a slab of wood is exciting.”
* * *
Through the crisp darkness, surrounded by cricket chatter, they followed a plank path back to the outhouse. The bathroom was indeed a small room with a toilet, shower and tub, and vanity. Plain but serviceable. But Mireio decided it would be a bitch in the winter if a person woke in the middle of the night needing to answer the call of nature.
“No holes dug in the ground,” Lars offered as they stepped out into the night air.
He pointed out the wildflower field that backed onto his property behind the outhouse and the beehives he kept. He had eight stacks right now and would divide them in the fall and probably gain three more in the process. He’d promised to take some of Valor’s bees when she divided the hives that she tended from the rooftop of her apartment building in Tangle Lake.
“So you’re a keeper,” Mireio commented, loving herself for the pun.
“I am? Oh. Uh, yes. A beekeeper.”
She felt sure he blushed in the darkness. The man certainly was a keeper.
After the grand tour, Mireio suggested they call it a night. She’d felt bad he’d had to take Peanut out of his crib, but the infant had slept through being buckled into his car seat and the twenty-minute drive back to Anoka, and even her accidental slamming of the truck door when she got out at the sidewalk before her house.
“Can I call you?” Lars asked as he stepped down from the sidewalk to stand on the tarmac, which put their heights a little closer.
“I certainly hope so. Hey, how about an afternoon with Peanut tomorrow? I have to go in to work for a few hours in the morning. Valor and I are kegging the stout. But I’m free after one. We could go to a park and have a picnic?”
“I’d like that. You sure you’re okay with this, Mireio?”
She shrugged. “I am right now. If I think about it awhile? Who knows? But I don’t think I’ll change my mind. I’m enjoying getting to know you. You are certainly an interesting man.”
“Maybe a little too interesting, eh?”
“Better that than dull, right?” She laughed, but stopped abruptly. “So tomorrow it’s a date.”
“Should I pick you up at the brewery?”
“Yes.” She tilted up on her tiptoes to meet the kiss that he did not pause to give her this time. His breath tasted like the wine they’d shared over supper, and his beard brushed her cheek softly. And when she started to pull away he dipped in for a firm press that won her completely. She sighed into the kiss and drew her fingers down the ends of his long hair. Mmm, he was some kind of all right. “I do enjoy these not-so-shy kisses.”
“Me too. I would kiss you longer but...” He glanced over to the running truck.
“I’m glad you told me about Peanut. You two are adorable together. We’re going to have fun, the three of us.”
Lars turned and waved as he got in the truck. And Mireio hugged herself and recalled that the man had given her a choice to walk away now if she wanted to.
Did she want to walk away? Could she handle dating a man with a baby? Neither option felt easy. And she needed easy right now. Because that would counter the nightmares and her wariness over performing the immortality spell.
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