Chapter 25
Two months later Austin"Wine?" A rhetorical question because Haley had already declared it Wine O’clock when she’d strolled with Austin to the lounge chairs he’d set up by his pond.
"Hmmm, if I must?"
Back propped against the cushioned chaise next to his, she sat with sandals kicked off, tanned legs crossed at the ankles. Austin captured Haley’s gaze as she watched him uncork the bottle.
His woman and she was gorgeous.
He couldn’t get enough of filling his eyes with her. He never would, and to think he’d come within a frog hair’s breadth of losing her? Never again. Pop. The bottleneck let go of the cork.
Past the pond and behind the line of trees, a fiery blaze of red streaked the sky, fading by the moment. One by one, solar disks lining the dock punched through deepenin
