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He lowered his head, and kissed her again.
Chapter 25
“I’m so glad Nelda loves the children. Although, when Ellen was there yesterday, she offered to watch them anytime we needed her to as well. She is so excited about becoming a mother.”
“She’s expecting?”
“No. I don’t think so,” Alaska said, as she put her arms around Ezra’s waist and he started the four wheeler after adjusting the picnic basket on the rack in front of him.
There was a cooler behind them as well, with water and dessert. As soon as his sisters found out that they were going to spend the day together, they had insisted they needed to make special food. Alaska wasn’t going to argue, because she wanted the day to be special for Ezra. He dismissed her when she talked about all the things he had done for her, but she truly meant it. And, if she could find the opportunity to do something extra for him, she was definitely going to take it.
“She didn’t say she was anyway, she just...talked about how much she wanted to have a big family like yours. I guess she was an only child growing up.”
“Yeah. She actually didn’t grow up with her parents. She lived with her uncle until she got married. I think she has a couple of younger siblings, but they’re not close in age, and she probably really did long for a family.”
“I hope they hurry up and have children so our kids have playmates.”
“Maybe my siblings will take my lead and decide to get married. It’s kind of unusual in a family our size for somany of us to not be married, although with all of the things that we’ve been going through with the ranch and selling the one in Wyoming and losing our parents and raising our younger siblings... It makes sense.”
Alaska knew that Priscilla at least had been married before. There was something going on with her children, and Alaska wasn’t sure what it was. It didn’t seem to be something she wanted to talk about, and Alaska didn’t feel like she could push.
She would listen if Priscilla ever wanted to talk about it. She hoped someday they’d know each other well enough that she’d talk about it with her.
They rode for a while, with the farmhouse fading out of sight as well as the buildings, and what seemed like miles of fence zipping by.
He turned, driving through some unfenced fields, before a copse of cottonwood came into view.
And then Alaska remembered what he had said about his favorite spot on the farm.
It was beautiful, shady, private, secluded, and yet open with a gorgeous view of the sky and the grass that stretched in all directions.
As they stopped by the creek, she had to admit that there was something calming about the water. The way it floated in a lazy, meandering way just soothed her soul, and she assumed Ezra felt it as well.
“I don’t know why I can just stare at water as it rolls along, always different. It shifts and shimmers and... It’s just very relaxing. It’s easy to think too.”
“I can see what you’re saying. I... I haven’t had the opportunity to spend much time beside any creeks, and I’m looking forward to it.” She narrowed her eyes. “You don’t seem like the kind of person who would sit beside a stream and admire it for hours on end. But I’m glad to see that you have a little bit of a hidden part of your personality that I didn’t knowabout.”
She blushed a little because that wasn’t the only hidden part of his personality that she didn’t know. Last night had been...quite nice.
“Are you blushing?” he asked, the picnic basket in one hand, frozen in the air as he looked at her cheeks. A little grin spread across his face. “You are.”
“Maybe. I might have been thinking about those little hidden parts of your personality that surprised me last night, in a very good way.”
“Not in a very, very good way?” he asked, like he even needed to. But, she supposed in her experience, this was something that people had a tendency to be insecure about.
“Yes. Without a doubt. A very, very good way.”
She lifted her brows at him, and then she turned to grab the cooler and lift it off the four wheeler, setting it beside the basket.
“I’m not the slightest bit hungry,” Ezra said, straightening and putting an arm around her shoulders as they turned and looked at the creek again.
“Breakfast was only an hour ago. I’m not the slightest bit hungry either.”
“I can’t imagine what in the world we could do to pass the time.”
She narrowed her eyes and slanted them at him. Was he flirting with her?
“I’ve never been skinny-dipping,” she said as casually as she could.
