Page 29 of Trail to Trouble
“Breakfast burritos, just one of my many specialties,” he bragged.
Now his full-blown smile bared his straight white teeth.
Hunter snagged a plate off the table and handed it to her. “I’m not waiting anymore. I’m starving. Let’s eat. They can eat when they get up.”
She piled scrambled eggs with peppers and onions, taco meat, and cheese onto a flour tortilla, wrapped it up and took a seat at the picnic table. He did the same, except he made two for himself, and then he sat opposite her at the table.
Gazing ensued over breakfast burritos. She enjoyed both and couldn’t have asked for a better morning.
Hunter pointed to her tent. “Do you think they are ever going to get up? The hike into Lover’s Leap Falls is farther than the other hikes we’ve taken. Not to mention that we need to break camp and canoe to that location. We’re going to need a bit more time. Or...” he paused and winked at her. “Will it just be you and me today?”
The rapid flutter of her heart kept her words at bay for a moment, and that sexy as hell wink of his had her wanting him for herself today. She could probably make that happen. Letting her friends off the hook from hiking today would probably be easy. Except for being alone with that bear yesterday scared them, and they’d probably want to be near Hunter.
Alyssa slipped out of the tent and moseyed over to the picnic table, grabbed a plate, then made her burrito, and sat.
“Is Bianca moving?” Hannah asked.
“I don’t think she’s getting up today. We’ll have to pack her with the tent. She’s checked out,” Alyssa said with a giggle.
“I’m coming,” Bianca yelled.
She slipped out of the tent. Even with as annoyed as she was, she still looked like a million bucks. Hannah was sure she couldn’t look more opposite.
Bianca wrinkled her nose at the burrito makings, then glanced over her shoulder at Hunter. “I’d like a spinach quiche and a dish of strawberries,” she said as she batted her eyes.
“I’ll get right on that,” he joked in reply.
The only problem was that Bianca was probably serious and suspected he’d swim back to the main camp store and get the supplies to accommodate her wish. That’s what she was used to. She arched her brow.
“There’s a great family diner you can hit on your way out of here tomorrow that can probably whip that up for you, but until then, it’s breakfast burritos for you, sweet pea.”
Sweet pea.Hannah laughed at the nickname he’d just coined Bianca with. She loved how Hunter didn’t fall prey to or cater to Bianca like most men did.
The scowl on her friend’s face let them all know she didn’t appreciate it.
Sweetheart, gorgeous, or princess would be more to Bianca’s liking.
With some reluctance, Bianca assembled her burrito.
After breakfast, they broke down camp, loaded the canoes, and headed to the next site.
A pair of eagles soared above them. Hannah stopped paddling and leaned her head back to watch the magnificent birds. Large and beautiful, the royalty of the sky, floating through the air with ease, with hardly a flap of their wings.
“Majestic, aren’t they?” Hunter asked, drawing her attention from the birds.
She looked at him. He wore a soft smile. His and Bianca’s canoe was only a couple of feet from hers. It crossed her mind to lean over and kiss him, but she wasn’t ready for her friends to know that she liked Hunter. Not yet.
“They sure are,” she replied.
Hunter tilted his face to the sky.
“I never tire of watching them.”
“I don’t doubt that.”
“Hey, some help here would be nice,” Bianca said as she shot a glare at Hunter.
He jokingly cringed and paddled again.
