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I bite my lip and look up at him with heavy-lidded eyes. “I should get back to work.”
“Take a break. You’re off the clock.”
I prop a hand on my hip. “Says who.”
“Your boss.”
“Is that what you are?”
“Gotta keep my employees happy.”
I am happy.
Too happy.
“It’s Saturday,” Charlie says, squeezing my hand. And that’s when I realize he’s still holding it. He hasn’t let go.
He glances at my computer on the table. “Shouldn’t be working, anyway,” he says, voice low and rough.
I eye his sweat-stained shirt and dusty Stetson. “What about you?”
“I was thinkin’ we could go out.”
I tilt my head. “And do what?”
“Spend the day with me?”
“And do what?” I ask again, breathless.
For me, this is it. Bliss. Spending the day with Charlie Montgomery. I’m too excited to worry about every moment after this that could be the end. I just want today.
I just want him.
Reaching out, Charlie sweeps my hair off my shoulder and sweeps his fingers across the curve of my throat, over my pulse. The primal action has my composure spiraling. “Thinkin’ we could knock two of those items off your to-do list.”
Now that Charlie knows about my to-do list, I’ve tacked it to my fridge. Every morning I see it. It’s like some proud badge of honor I can’t wait to cross off. Even if I’m not being honest with him, it feels nice to have someone in it with me.
I bite my lip, hopeful. “Ride a horse?”
That smile on his handsome face dips. “No. Not ride a horse, Ruby.”
“Then what do you have in mind?”
“We go out and do some dancing. Watch the sunrise.”
My heart somersaults in my chest. It sounds perfect.
It sounds disastrous.
“Thought we didn’t do that stuff.”
He grunts in disagreement. “We’re having fun. That’s all.”
“I don’t know, Charlie ...” His hands drift, sliding over my waist to palm the curve of my back. “What if I’m an awful dancer?” I whisper.
His lips lift in a breathtaking smile that has me forgetting we’re just for the summer. Has me forgetting this is a bad idea.
“You won’t be. Not with me around.” He tilts his head toward his pickup truck parked in the drive. “C’mon. Let’s go.”
