Chapter Seventeen
At seven o’clock sharp, Axel paused outside the door to his bunkhouse. Well, Coop’s bunkhouse. But he still thought of it as his. His gut did a little jig as he raised his hand to rap on the door, then dropped it.
Holy hell.
Was he nervous?
He never got nervous about anything. Excited, maybe. But nervous? “It’s just dinner,” he muttered quietly.
Only it wasn’t. This felt a lot bigger than dinner. He shook out his hand and raised his arm again. The door swung open. “You gonna stand there talking to yourself all night?”
Haley was… breathtaking. His heart forgot to keep beating and just… stopped. Along with everything else in his body. He didn’t think he’d ever seen her this dressed up before. Certainly never this girly. The dress wasn’t clingy, but it showed her curve
