Ty chuckled.
Two days ago on their Christmas-tree-cutting expedition with her cheeks made rosy by the cold and her eyes softened by contentment as they’d sat together to watch the sun go down, Shannon had been gorgeous, but now as she sat in the middle of his living room floor surrounded by newly purchased cartons of fragile glass ornaments and draped in shimmery tinsel garland, she was adorable and ever more irresistible. They’d arrived back from Butte less than an hour ago after a two-hour drive over slick, snowy roads, but it hadn’t been long enough for him to forget how cheerful and unperturbed by the crush of stressed Black Friday bargain hunters she’d been. As much time as she spent in the city, even throngs of holiday shoppers in Montana must seem like an ordinary crowd, but it amu
