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“We’ll have to It’s getting dark and looks like snow is on the way We’ll stay here and then to we’ll head back to the road and try our luck finding help Now, letI’m frozen”

Emma plucked the et e while I start the fire I have some cookies and a wrapped tin of chocolates It won’t be much to eat, but it will be better than old Spam”

Erik looked as if he would argue, but instead shrugged “Okay Check the flue and stack the wood We’ll light it when I get back”

“I cana fire, Erik”

He pressed his lips into a line “Look, I’hter and that’s a fireplace that hasn’t been used in years Just letPlease”

She started to argue because he treated her like the kid she used to be The aard twelve-year-old andered into a beehive on the caone on with his fa the gas can, the graduating senior who’d accidentally started a fire in the Matheson side yard on the Fourth of July But Eer She could build a freaking fire without burning the place down

But so in his expression stopped her

Here was a cos At that moment he had none

“Yes, Firefighter Matheson,” she said, saluting and trying out a shter in theher parents’ award presentation, she needed to find her sense of humor

And some self-control

One bed, a roaring fire and the sexy guy she’d always had the hots for felt like an assload of temptation

He looked hard at her and for a hts Did he know she wanted himthat she’d alanted him?