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After a dozen phone calls it beca their lumber before Tuesday Normally that wouldn’t be ht into Mondaywas rain and plenty of it They’d been left with no choice but to send a dozen men into town to buy every last piece of tarp that they could get their hands on It took about eight hours and a hundred et the roof covered and sealed up tight He didn’t even want to think of the bullshit they’d have to deal with if they hadn’t covered it up The building had enough proble ht back a yawn as he reached for a towel After putting in fourteen hours today, he was exhausted He should be crawling into bed right now, especially since he had to get up bright and early to to fish with Rory’s oldon her brothers If this had been a date, not that this was really a date, with any other wo it, but this ith Rory He only had five leof his "date" with Rory, he was late, he rerumble as he wrapped a towel around his waist He needed to ht and the place was going to be packed They’d be lucky to get a table near the bathrooht and that’s definitely not hoanted to spend the night with her He’d rather take her in his bed and hold her Actually, he’d rather take her in his bed and y than he had right now, he was going to have to settle for taking her out and hopefully holding her in his arms a time or two on the dance floor
He walked into his bedroo back another yahen his eyes landed on the bed What he saw there had hi a double take Why was Rory curled up in his bed in only a pink cotton ca? he wondered and not really caring as he walked over to her
"Too tired Not going out," sheto open her eyes
"I see," he said, chuckling as she snuggled against his pillow
"Good Now carry me back to my room," she muttered even as she blindly reached out for a blanket When she didn’t find one she let out a frustrated little groan and flopped over onto her other side and curled up
With a sigh, he walked over to the bed and picked her up so that he could pull the covers back When he laid her back down, she curled right back up, snuggled against his pillow and released a happy little sigh when he pulled the covers over her He should be pissed that his plans were being wrecked again, but he just couldn’t, not when breaking their plans ht
He would be holding her in his ar, he decided as he quickly pulled on a pair of boxers and cliruainst him Once he had her where he wanted her, he closed his eyes and felt his body relax
A few seconds later he let out a grunt when she abruptly turned in his arled against hi hi it because he didn’t want to wake up covered in bruises She was a violent little thing after all, he mused as he kissed the top of her head It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he never wanted to let her go
He really was handsoently caressed his jaw She should leave, but she found that she didn’t want to go, not just yet She could coht down to it, she enjoyed waking up in his ar up in his ar care of her probably did more for her than the pain medication the doctor prescribed She’d felt safe, truly safe which of course was laughable considering the fact that thishell for over two decades, but she couldn’t help it She also couldn’t help but like this Connor
He made her feel safe, wanted and desired She knew that it was probably all part of hisit Why would it? She’d been dealing with Connor for thethe shit out of her This Connor was funny, sweet and made her happy She’d have to be an idiot not to enjoy this short reprieve fro hell She had fiveto le minute of it while it lasted
But that didn’t mean that she trusted this little plan of his She didn’t He was up to soo into this blindly While she enjoyed herself, she’d keep her eyes open and as soon as she figured out what Connor was up to she’d turn the tables on him Until then
Well, she decided that she’d play it by ear As long as he stayed out of her way, focused on getting theher in a way that she loved then she would let things continue It actually surprised her how easily she’d accepted this situation between them Part of her, the part that still remembered the time that he turned her blue when they were fourteen, wanted to fight against this overwhelht this deal of theirs, but she realized soht this
Heas he reached for her, but she wasn’t there When he frowned in his sleep, she couldn’t help but sainst his forehead He let out a soft sigh as he rolled over onto his stomach and she took that as her cue to leave
She climbed off his bed and took a step towards his patio when son of Connor’s house Since she didn’t knohen an opportunity like this would coain she’d be foolish to pass this up At least that’s what she told herself as she shot a quick glance in Connor’s direction to make sure that he was still asleep
After a quick visual check she wasted no tiht as she stepped out of his rooh she’d stepped back into the nineteenth century The walls hite with dark tri just enough light in the hallway for the historical house junkie in her to get a rush
Old houses were her favorite When she was little she used to love it when her father worked on an older house She used to walk through each rooine what the house used to look like, should look like Her brothers would tease her, but she didn’t care There was just so about an older house that spoke to her She’d always in ed in a previous century, but with all the n
In fact, she’d planned on going to college to earn a degree in architecture and one day design an entire toith old tihteenth century facade, but it never happened Thanks to the incident in Canada she lost her college scholarship as well as her acceptance to several schools She could have applied to another college, a less expensive college, especially since the charges had been dropped, but by the tied