Elsie Silver

Working as a nanny for the world's grumpiest single dad should have been simple. Except I can't keep my eyes off him. And he can't keep his hands off of me. Cade Easton is thirteen years older than me and barely looks my way. Until I get him in the hot tub one night for a game of truth or dare. Then all bets are off - and so are our clothes. He's gruff, a little rough around the edges, and it turns out broad-shouldered ranchers with filthy mouths are this city girl's kryptonite. So who am I to resist? But in our quiet moments together, he softens, and I start to realise his hardened exterior is just a façade. Someone once convinced him that his best wasn't good enough. Yet I've never felt more cherished than I do in his arms. My contract may say this arrangement is only for two months . But my heart says this is forever.

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My eyes shoot to hers, all wide and green. So many shades. A mosaic.

Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers.

Beau chuckles. “Well, you know. Boys will be b—”

She was just so excited over me laughing. Over me smiling. She smiled back. It felt good. And now she’s in here giving that megawatt grin to other people, who are grinning back at her. And I feel like I want all her smiles for myself.

He did his best, but he wasn’t present for a long time. And by the time he was, I didn’t want his attention in this way anymore..

His hand shoots between the metal panels, fingers hooking through my belt loop to hold me still.

“Because you’ve never been just the nanny, Willa.” My chest lurches as I look back at him, feeling suspended in time. “You’ve always been more. The woman I wanted but wouldn’t let myself have."

"You have options, and you are free to take them. I want you to let yourself consider your options, because no one has ever really given you any options, Cade. And you deserve them.”

The sound of our coins plunking into the water below mingles with the sound of wind chimes on the back porch.

“He asked me if I have a breeding kink.”

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