“Bill would love that,” he murmured.
Nick Hammond had it right. A woman like Aelissm would keep him on his toes and make life one grand adventure after another. But he couldn’t.
Aelissm sighed in her sleep and shifted into a more comfortable position. She certainly wasn’t inclined to move away, and he didn’t want her to. This felt so right, being curled with his boss’s niece in a mountainside cabin. Life was so miraculously uncomplicated that his chest tightened. There were no expectations of permanence or perfection, just the pure and simple element of mutual comfort.
Time slipped past in a haze of warmth and sleeping woman. Pat dozed lightly, but he didn’t really sleep. No more visions of Sara tormented him, and his half-conscious mind savored these moments of chaste closeness with Ae
