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Автор Джессика Харт
“You should come to London,” she said.
“You’d be snapped up. ”
“Not much point if the woman doing the snapping doesn’t fancy the idea of life on a farm,” said Bram. “A girl who hates cold mornings and mud is no good to me. That’s obviously where I’ve been going wrong all these years. All my girlfriends have been town girls. What I need is a country girl. ”
Sophie looked at him affectionately. Yes, a nice country girl was exactly what Bram needed. Surely there was someone out there who would be glad to make a life with Bram? On winter nights she could draw the thick, faded red curtains in the sitting room against the wind and rain and sit with Bram in front of the fire, listening to it spit and crackle.
“I wish I could marry you,” she said with a wistful smile.
Bram put down his mug. His mother’s clock ticked into the sudden silence.
“Why don’t you?” he said.
Books by Jessica Hart
HARLEQUIN ROMANCE®
3844—HERE COMES THE BRIDE (2-in-1 with Rebecca Winters)
3861—CONTRACTED: CORPORATE WIFE
Mistletoe Marriage
Jessica Hart
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
BRAM was unloading bales when Sophie found him.
It was a delicate business to lift each bale from the back of a trailer, and she watched him for a while as he stacked them carefully outside the farm shed, marvelling affectionately at how calm and methodical he was about everything.
There was something almost graceful about the way the tractor moved backwards and forwards in a slow and cumbersome ballet, and Sophie began to feel calmer. She waved to attract Bram’s attention the next time he turned his head, and he stopped at the sight of her, hunched in her jacket, the cold wind blowing her unruly curls around her face.
‘Hello!’ He jumped down from the tractor, followed by the ever-faithful Bess, who ran over to greet Sophie, wriggling and squirming with pleasure in a manner quite unbefitting a sheepdog as she bent to pat her. ‘I didn’t know you were coming up. ’
‘It was a spur-of-the-moment thing,’ said Sophie, straightening.
She had decided to come home the moment her mother had told her that Melissa and Nick were on holiday. Although now she wished she hadn’t.
‘I’m just here for the weekend. ’
