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Oh, this Cord Behr was as smart as he was good-looking.
His hand started to slip away, and Jane wanted him to stay more than she cared to admit. “You and me are dancin’ today,” he said. “With you in that dress, if we don’t, it’ll be a real shame.”
She twisted enough to look at him to see if he was joking or not. He could tease a lot, and he was Colorado’s biggest flirt. He wore a smile to go with his sandy hair and those gorgeous eyes. Jane had lost herself in them many times, and she blinked so she wouldn’t do so again.
He gestured between the two of them. “Me and you. Dancing. Later.”
She nodded, and he turned and ducked around the back of the altar to take his place between Travis and Mission. That put him in a spot where she could admire him from afar, which was what she’d been doing for the past fifteen years.
Gerty reached the altar, and her father leaned down and pressed his lips to her cheek before handing her over to Mike. The two of them looked at each other, and it was like they’d turned into small children experiencing the magic of Christmas for the very first time.
If that was what it felt like to get married, Jane wanted it even more. Mike and Gerty had been friends in their teens. They’d even dated a little bit.
All in God’s timing, she thought, which was a phrase she used often with her life coach. Gerty and Mike hadn’t been ready to be standing here in front of the altar fourteen years ago. They were now.
The ceremony started, and Jane watched Cord. His words tumbled around in her head, ringing and making her excited in one breath and absolutely terrified in the next.
You and me are dancin’ today. With you in that dress, if we don’t, it’ll be a real shame.
Could she really dance with him here, in front of everyone? She wanted to, and she couldn’t wait until the music started again and men and women filled the dance floor.
Cord caught her staring, and the corners of his mouth twitched upward. Jane smiled at him too, wondering if he’d talked to Daddy about the two of them dating. Daddy had not been happy with it when she was younger, but a common theme around the house these days was that Jane wasn’t a little girl anymore. Or even a teenager.
She was a grown woman, with a college degree, a good-paying job, and a place to live, eat, and sleep. So what if it was Hunter’s sprawling mansion that she and Deacon could barely keep up with?
Right now, it was all she had, and Jane considered leaving Coral Canyon…for good. Businesses everywhere needed accountants, and Jane wouldn’t have any trouble getting another job.
Then she looked at Cord. She couldn’t leave town—or him—without knowing if they had something good or not.
Me and you. Dancing. Later.
She gave him a weak smile, but he caught it, doubled it, and grinned back at her appropriately.
Jane’s impatience kicked in then, because she really just wanted to dance.
SNEAK PEEK! HIS SIXTH SWEETHEART, CHAPTER TWO:
Cord Behr couldn’t believe what he’d whispered in his boss’s daughter’s ear. He immediately amended the thought, because Gray Hammond wasn’t his boss anymore. His son, Hunter, was. And Cord and Hunter were really good friends, especially now that the man spent every day on the farm where he’d grown up.
Cord didn’t understand everything about the legal stuff, but he didn’t have to. Gray and Elise had moved into the generational house, and Gray had officially retired from running the farm. Hunter, Molly, and their children had moved into the farmhouse, and Hunter now ran the farm while Molly maintained her rule over Pony Power.
Matt was still the foreman of the farm, but he was pulling back more and more. The farm had needed a full-time foreman, because Gray didn’t want to put in the work, but Hunter was only in his mid-forties, and he could do a lot more than his father. Not only that, but Matt had just turned fifty-five this year, and he couldn’t do as much.
Now that Cord was forty, he understood how his body couldn’t quite do everything it once had.
He sure couldn’t look away from Jane right now, even when he told himself to do it. He could admit he’d waited to talk to Gray once he’d learned that the man would be retiring. Then Gray couldn’t fire him.
Hunter knows about you too, he thought, and his stomach flipped the way it always did when he thought about others knowing about his past. He wasn’t sure why he thought starting anything with the quick-witted and super-smart Jane Hammond was a good idea. She’d demand to know everything about him and probably needle him until he told her.
He finally ducked his head, a smile coming to his lips. Jane had backed off when he’d asked her to. He’d learned months ago that she just needed a firm hand, and she’d responded well to it.
She’d even texted to apologize later.
The minister finished up the ceremony, and Cord looked up and brought his hands together along with everyone else as Mike tipped Gerty back and kissed her. They both laughed, so that didn’t last long, and then they faced the crowd that had gathered in Gerty’s barn for the wedding.
Cord whistled through his teeth as the couple separated to hug their families. Mike enveloped both of his parents in one embrace while Boone gripped his oldest daughter tightly. Cord sure did like Mike and Gerty, as they’d always been kind to him.
Mike had been out on the farm less and less since becoming CEO. He still had a cabin there, but everyone would be moving his stuff to Gerty’s farmhouse while the two of them were off on their honeymoon. He’d been spending more time in the city, as apparently, the CEO had an apartment there, or at the house where Jane and Deacon now lived.
