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A mountain man, I mused, sliding my phone into its pocket in my bag. Used to harder living and working with his hands. Maybe he had a shack somewhere he emerged from each morning to cut wood and fetch water from a stream. He’d go swimming in a river some days. Naked, obviously.
“When your cab left, I thought I’d never see you again.” “You wanted to see me again?” “Aye. Regardless of what we said. The alarm woke me from a dream about you.” Was it as racy as the dream I just had?
“Fine, woman. You do that. Dream of me,” he called in that sexiest of accents. “You can pick up where I left off.”
She’d been in my dreams, before and after the alarm. Pretty eyes and long legs I couldn’t avoid noticing. If that wasn’t a clear enough message, who knew what would be. I had let her walk away without even trying. Not good enough. Not by a mile.
“Whatever your plans are, shift them. Have breakfast with me,” I demanded, aware I was looming over her and barking orders. What the hell was wrong with me? “I mean to say,” I started, casting about for better words, but she held up a hand. Her face, finely made and with schooled features, tipped up to regard me. Humour lit her eyes. “Did you just ask me out again? Even though I’ve turned you down twice?”
“You said family, I heard wife. You’re not married, then?” “Never tried it, but I’ve only just met you. Give me a chance,”
“Because here I am, waiting on your every word since I first laid eyes on ye. Fate keeps throwing us together. We ought to listen.”
“She pretty?” I peered out of the corner of my eye. James put up a hand as if to deflect the question. “I’m not answering that. I have a feeling someone might get defensive should I comment on her looks in any way.”
“One look from her, one touch of her hand, and I’m toast. Done for.” Heat and humour lit his gaze as it came back on me. “You had me forgetting what I was talking about.” “That was my intention.”
“Just come back to me,” I murmured. “Dinna marry someone else in the meantime.”
