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A Glacier Creek Romance

Prologue

“You’re going to marry me someday”

Rachel McCafferty spun around fro a pitcher of le on the far side of the kitchen island He watched her with soleave no indication he was joking

Rachel so, but neither did she want to give him any false hope He was, after all, just a kid He had about asten minutes in Hell So why, then, did the expression in his eyes—unwavering and intense—cause such an odd tightening sensation in her chest? Abruptly, she turned her back to hilasses down from the cupboard

“Well,” she finally responded, eyeing hilass of le as you’re only twelve years old, you’re expectingtime, aren’t you?”

“Fourteen”

Rachel set the pitcher down on the counter with a grin “Fourteen years? I’ll be an old maid by then!”

“No,” he said quietly “I’m not twelve I’, “I will be in another month But since you mentioned it, I’m pretty sure in fourteen years, you and I will be married”

Rachel stared at Jamie Colter, too taken aback by his brash confidence to kno to respond He was se, and skinny His fa as Rachel could reer brother, Dylan, had been best buds practically from the time they could walk Jamie was almost a permanent fixture at their house, but Rachel paid about as much attention to him as she would any other piece of furniture Still, he see she wanted was to hurt his feelings

“Ja her words carefully, “I’m flattered, I really am, but I’ to forget all about me”

“I won’t”

“I’e” She slanted him a skeptical look “No offense, but you haven’t even started high school yet”

Jalass and took a long s of le hers