Page 34 of The Rancher's Addiction

“All right, you smart-ass.Yes.Do you want to go to the café on Main, or can we grab some groceries and make a meal at your house?”

“You know how to cook?”she asked.

He snorted.“No, but I figured you being a genius and all, you’d be able to figure it out.”

“Wow.Thank you.”

He laughed.

She smiled.“How about we just go to my house?I made lasagna last night, and I have a ton left.”

“I like lasagna.”

“Then follow me.”

He squeezed her one more time, released her, and followed her out of the building.It took about five minutes to get to her house, and he pulled in behind her.

He looked around outside the house.It needed to be re-sided, but the yard was in good shape, and she had planted flowering bushes on either side of the front door, which added color to the otherwise drab-looking house.

A thought popped into his head, and he turned to her.“You’re not thinking of roofing and siding this house by yourself, right?”Jesus, just the thought of her on a tall ladder, or even worse on top of the roof and falling, made sweat beads on his forehead.

She shook her head.“No, I’m going to have one of the construction businesses in town do it.One, because I like to use local businesses, and two, I hate heights.”

“Good.I would have had nightmares.”

She laughed.“Come on in.”

Chapter Fourteen

He followed her intothe kitchen and looked around.The white cabinets' granite counter, farm sink, and appliances looked new.

“What have you done in here?”

She set the pan she pulled from the fridge on the counter.“Everything but the floor.The kitchen was one of the things I did first because it was in bad shape, but I brought in the construction company for that, too.”

“Are you going to do the floor yourself?”

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