The High Country Rancher (13 page)
One year later
“Hurry, we don’t want to be late,” Baylor said from the bedroom.
Mariah glanced out of the bathroom door and watched him as he attempted to knot his tie. He looked good in a suit, but she liked him better in boots and a hat. Just boots and a cowboy hat.
“Sweetheart, will you help me with this?”
She dropped the pregnancy test wand sporting a giant plus sign into the trash can and left the bathroom.
“Sure.” She easily wrapped the long end around and pulled it through the knot, before she cinched it up to his collar. “You look great.”
A hungry look passed across his face, and a sly smile tugged on his lips. “So do you.”
She turned in her dress, watching the skirt flail out around her. Tonight, after the gallery opening party
and the reserve sales, she would tell him they were going to have a baby. Just the thought made her smile until she thought she’d bust.
“What’s up?” he asked, his blue eyes narrowing with contemplation.
“I love you.”
He stepped toward her and her heart squeezed. She had everything she’d ever wanted. A husband she loved more than life itself, a gallery filled to the brim with her paintings, and a child growing inside of her.
His child.
“We’ll just have to be late.” He pulled off his Stetson, and she reached for his tie.
ISBN: 978-1-4268-2807-2
THE HIGH COUNTRY RANCHER
Copyright © 2009 by M. Jan Hambright
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