Page 4 of A Very Mountain Man Romancing

“I’m Mabel,” I say, sticking out my hand and he hesitates for a second before he takes it.

“Jonah.”

“Nice to meet you.”

“What are you doing out here?”

“Car trouble,” I say, pointing behind me and I see that the smoke has finally stopped coming out from under the hood.

“Let’s take a look.”

I let him handle it. I don’t know anything about cars, but if he can fix it, then that saves me some money. Plus, I get to watch him while he works. Maybe he’ll get hot or dirty and he’ll need to take his shirt off.

Wow, my hormones are really out of control tonight…

He pops the hood and I stand to the side of the car, watching as he checks a few things.

“Your engine overheated,” he tells me and I nod like I know what he’s talking about.

“That’s not the only thing about to overheat.”

“What?” he asks me and I freeze when I realize that I said that out loud.

“What?” I ask and he gives me a look like he thinks I might be insane.

“It probably just needs some more coolant,” he tells me, nodding to some car part that I couldn’t tell you the name of.

“Oh, right.”

“Do you have any in your car?”

“Should I?”

“Not necessarily. I didn’t know if this had happened before or not.”

“It hasn’t.”

He just grunts as he checks something else.

“When was the last time that you got your oil changed?”

“Is that a euphemism?”

He stares at me, the corners of his lips ticking up and I wonder if maybe a different guy, a real murderer this time, will be heading my way anytime soon.

“Uh, it’s been a while,” I tell him and he just nods again.

“Okay, well come on.”

He starts to walk back the way he came and I freeze. I know that he’s a hero and all of that, but I don’t know him. My body protests. It really wants to get to know him.

“Where are we going?” I ask him as he keeps walking.

I look between my car and his strong back and before I know it, my feet are already hurrying to catch up to him.

“I’ll get my car and take you home. I can come out tomorrow to take a look and try to fix it when the sun is up and some of the stores in town are open.”

“Oh, okay. Where do you live?”

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