“You too.It looks great in here.Thanks for helping.”
“Happy to,” he said.There was a moment where no one said anything, and it suddenly got wildly awkward.“Is there anything else I can help with?”
“We’re done, actually.You really kicked butt helping me get it all set up.And we have about fifteen minutes to spare before Rhomi shows up and the party gets started.I can’t thank you enough.”
“My pleasure.”
She walked with him out of the building.“So about this favor I owe you.”
He hummed in question, looking down at her.She was nearly a foot shorter than him, but so freaking perfect.His hands ached to touch her, to hold her, but he kept them clenched at his sides.
“I was thinking that I could make you dinner?If you’d like to come over to my place tomorrow night?My brother works nights, so we’d have the place to ourselves.”
“That would be awesome,” he said.He pulled his phone from his pocket and opened a text message, then turned the phone over to her.She typed on his phone for a moment, then handed it back to him.He saw she’d added herself as a contact.
“How about six?”she asked.
“Perfect.”He stared down at her.Her hazel eyes darkened slightly and the sweet scent of her deepened a bit.He wondered what sorts of sexy thoughts were traipsing through her mind, because he was pretty sure the same ones were going through his.
Time stood still for a heartbeat.He wasn’t even sure he was breathing.
Then she smiled, her eyes crinkling at the corners.She went onto her toes and kissed his cheek, her hand resting gently on his arm for a moment.“I’m so glad I met you, Ford.And not just because you’re tall and strong and I needed someone with both those attributes to help me decorate.”
“I’m glad I met you too.”
She smiled once more, flashing that dimple at him, and walked into the botanical garden building.As the door swung shut, he heard Reagan squeal in excitement and the two giggle, and he grinned.
He sent her a text:Here’s my number in case you need to get hold of me.Have a fun party!
Then he put his phone in his pocket, whistling as he headed for the employee cafeteria.While his stallion would have preferred to stay in Darcy’s presence longer, she had a party to host and he was going to be driving his friends back to the farm soon.
But he’d get to see her tomorrow night.
He couldn’t believe that he’d come to the park on a whim and met his soulmate.
Fate sure did have a funny sense of timing.
Colton Kane, rightful alpha of the Little River Farm, stood on the back porch of the cabin he and his remaining stallion herd had taken over when they’d been ousted from the farm months earlier.
He hated everything about where they were right now.
The cabin was rotting around them, from the sagging roof to the broken windows, but it was far enough away from the farm that the stallions hadn’t been able to find them, so it had to do.But every time he looked in the direction of the farm, rage boiled inside him.
The farm should have been his.
He’d shown up with his stallion herd and been ousted by alpha Crew and his people, and then he’d had the audacity to claim the only female in Colton’s herd—Zara—as his mate.Crew was strutting around the farm like a king while Colton scraped by with the only two males left in his herd.
And to top off all the insults from Crew and his merry band of assholes, Colton’s only brother, Weston, was dead at their hands.
Colton didn’t really care about the other members of the herd who had lost their lives in the fight to take over the farm, but losing Weston was a wound that cut deep.
He wanted vengeance like he needed air to breathe.
If it was the last thing he ever did, he was going to take out the Little River Herd, starting with Crew and Zara.Every damn last one of them would fall, just like Weston.
Then Colton would be at peace, as the rightful leader of the farm.
A board creaked behind Colton, and Levi stepped onto the porch.Colton glanced at him.“We’re running low on supplies.Winter’s coming, you know.”
