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She looked adorable. He always thought that she was beautiful. Gorgeous. Sexy as fuck. Now she looked damned cute.
She had a puffy white winter coat on, a pink hat and matching mittens, and a pink and white striped scarf around her neck. Within minutes of being outside in the cold weather her nose turned the same pink as her mittens. But her eyes were twinkling, and her smile was huge as they walked along the path that he had scooped behind the lodge.
"I can't believe you were out here scooping snow," she told him.
He grinned at her. "It was fun."
"So outdoors and doing manual labor is just your thing. It doesn't matter the temperature or the location? It doesn’t actually have to be the bayou?"
He shrugged. "I guess not. Scott let me drive one of the trucks with the plow on the front earlier when I helped with the front drive. But this back part I did with a shovel by hand."
"The only reason I'm not upset that I missed it is because you would've had a coat on, and I wouldn't have been able to fully appreciate all your big muscles bunching and working."
He grinned at her. “You don’t appreciate my muscles working when we’re back in Louisiana.”
“Oh, I most certainly do. And your ass.” She gave what sounded like a happy sigh. “I just used to be more sneaky about it. Now I guess I can just ogle you openly, though.”
Theo turned on her suddenly, moving in close, nearly standing on her toes. “Now? Why now? What’s changed?”
He knew what had changed for him. Hefeltlike things had changed for them both. But fuck he wanted to hear it.
She blinked up at him, likely surprised by his sudden intensity. “Um…I guess…it’s going to be really obvious to everyone that we’re sleeping together, don’t you think?”
Right. Yes. He was sure it was. There was no way he was going to be able to sit with her in Ellie’s and not touch her. He wasn’t going tonotkiss her when he saw her. And he was absolutely taking her home with him at the end of the night.
He nodded. “I’m not keeping it a secret,” he told her.
She swallowed. “Me either.”
He’d take it. For now. He leaned in and touched her lips with his. “Good.”
Then he took her hand and tugged her down the cleared path to the surprise he’d set up with Lucy and Henry.
They stepped into the huge outbuilding that sat nearly fifty yards behind the main house. This was where they kept the main pick up trucks, and a few ATVs that they used to maintain the property.
There was one four-wheeler sitting closest to the door. Theo grinned down at Savannah.
“What are we doing?” she asked, looking around.
“Well, I know that some of the things you wanted to do at the Christmas farm were seeing the Christmas trees, taking a sleigh ride, and seeing the reindeer. This is the best I can do in our current circumstance.”
He pointed at the ATV with the gigantic round plastic purple sled tied behind it.
Her eyes widened. “What?”
He grinned and nodded. “Get on.”
“This is…”
“Your sleigh ride. Kind of.”
“Oh my God!” She lifted onto tiptoes, pressed a kiss against his cheek, and then ran toward the sled.
He laughed and followed. He’d had a lot of help. Henry had found him a sled that could easily fit two women Savannah’s size or four to five little kids. He helped her step onto the sled, then tucked the fuzzy fleece blanket around her.
“It’s not perfect,” he said. “You can’t drink cocoa while you ride. You’ll need to hold on.”
“And you’re not on here cuddling with me,” she said.
