One Night with her Bachelor(51)

“I’ll hold your hand through anything.” He eased her onto her back in the snow. “You know, the rangers probably won’t get here for another ten minutes, at least.”

“Actually, they’re not coming. When you were rooting through your backpack, I pressed the cancel button. They know I’m safe.” She ran her finger down the zipper of his jacket. “I still haven’t seen you completely naked.”

“That’s strange. I feel like I’ve been more naked with you than anyone ever before.” He kissed her long and slow, then nuzzled her cheek. “How about we hobble back to my place and I’ll show you a little project I’ve been working on?”

“Is that a euphemism?”

“Nope. It’s an actual project. I made a second chair for the kitchen table.” It wasn’t his only project, but he would save the pendant for another special occasion. He had a feeling there would be plenty to choose from.

Her eyes welled up as she figured out what he was trying to tell her. “You want to have company over.”

“Mostly I want to have you over. I didn’t think you’d come, though, since you’d be out of reach for Josh.”

“He’s staying at Jake’s tonight, and I gave Jake’s parents the forestry service’s phone number in case of emergencies. Then I told Austin I was going to your place. He insisted I take this little beacon with me and told me not to hesitate to use it. I hope you don’t mind, but I told him you can hear him and the other rangers over the radio. I said I’d turn your radio on when I got to your cabin, and he could let me know if Jake’s parents contact him.”

“So that’s how he knew to talk into the radio when you set your beacon off.”

“Sounds like all my contingency planning worked. Thank God for that. Now let’s get to your cabin so I’m not out of contact too long.”

He laughed. “You’re a wild woman, Molly Dekker. There’s a real danger of me falling crazy in love with you.”

She grinned. “Say it again.”

“I’m falling in love with you.”

“No, the part about me being wild,” she teased.

He leaned down and kissed her. “How about I let you show me how wild you are instead?”

Looping her arms around his neck, she murmured against his lips, “Sold.”

The End