He glanced at Sadie, whose eyes had widened as though she’d had no idea such a thing would be happening. The knowledge he’d see her tonight was both very welcome and a problem he didn’t want to think about too deeply. Something about her had gotten inside him in a way nothing had for three years. He’d recognized it right away—pure attraction, an inexplicable chemistry out of nowhere, an emotional pull. He’d tried to chalk it up to the situation on the mountain, the frayed nerves, the promise he’d made and would have died to keep. Anyway, Axel Dawson wasn’t going back to that time three years ago when a single mother had torn his heart in two.
“Zul and Zul!” Danny gleefully shouted as he flew his lion around and then pointed to Axel.
Oh, man.
“Please come,” Great-Aunt Tabby said, approaching them. Her sister, Sadie’s mom, lifted her chin and turned away, the tension between the two women so thick Axel could bite it. “We owe you everything.”
He was about to say he was just doing his job, but finding lost people wasn’t a “job.” It never had been and never would be. Search and rescue was who he was, the call in his blood and veins. That simple and uncomplicated.
He looked at Sadie, who seemed to be biting her lip, her cheeks slightly pink. “Of course I’ll come,” he said, and the women beamed.
Well, except for Sadie. Something was up there, but again, he wasn’t about to think about it.
The way he saw it, after one simple toast tonight, the hero stuff would be over. He’d stay fifteen minutes, shake some hands, smile at some kids and then he’d be free. The name of the game.
Copyright © 2020 by Melissa Senate
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ISBN-13: 9781488069857
In Search of the Long-Lost Maverick
Copyright © 2020 by Harlequin Books S.A.
Special thanks and acknowledgment are given to Christine Rimmer for her contribution to the Montana Mavericks: What Happened to Beatrix? miniseries.
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