Merry Christmas, Cowboy!
"Are you asking me to move in with you?" Lauren Van Meveren placed the cup on her kitchen counter and stared at the handsome rancher.
Seth Anderssen, known in Sweet River, Montana, for his quick wit, didn't miss a beat. "I guess I am. 'Cept we'll have separate rooms and you'll be there to tend to my daughter's needs, not mine."
Only when he chuckled did Lauren realize how her question actually sounded. She swallowed a groan. For an intelligent woman on the verge of earning her PhD in psychology, sometimes she could be amazingly inept.
"I knew that." She met his gaze and shrugged, the cool response at odds with her rapidly beating heart. "We don't have that kind of relationship. We've never even kissed."
"That could easily be remedied." His eyes took on an impish gleam and she caught a glimpse of the boy who'd once dropped a frog down the front of his sister's dress.
"True." Lauren kept her tone deliberately light. "Pressing lips together isn't that difficult."
"Is that all you think kissing is?"
Lauren thought of the few men she'd kissed. Ones with brilliant minds who appealed to her intellect ... read full excerpt from: Merry Christmas, Cowboy! ebook
