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than a thin gown which was plastered to her body. “What are you doing out in this mess? Here, give me your hand.” Noah leaned over and reached for her.
      “I saw you riding across the pasture. I was afraid for you,” she answered, but she just stood, anchored to the spot.
      “Skye, give me your hand. It’s no more safe for you to be out here than me.”
      With seeming reluctance, she accepted his offer. With one mighty move, he lifted her up and she sat behind him, not touching. “Hold on to me,” he directed. After a few more moments of hesitation, she settled her arms around his waist. To Noah, the closeness of her body felt as welcoming as the morning sun.
      “Come with me to the cabin, this bad weather isn’t over!” Skye spoke near his ear to be heard over the wind. During the intermittent flashes, Noah spotted the front porch light of the hunting lodge and headed toward it. Skye’s hands on the bare skin of his waist shifted his focus from worry to awareness in about two seconds flat.
      Coming up alongside the porch, Noah steadied her while she dismounted. She gave him a searching look. “I’ll be right back,” he said. “Let me get Shawnee comfortable in the barn.” Once he was in the safety of the steel structure, he slid off the stallion and gave him some oats and water before sprinting across the yard toward the log cabin.
    “Hurry. Hurry,” she called. “I can’t believe you are out in this weather without a shirt! Have you lost your mind?” Still fussing, she held the door for him. “Let me get some towels.”
    Noah grinned. “You hurry up! I’m puddlin’ in here!” He looked down at the water accumulating on the wooden floor.
    “Don’t get your drawers in a knot! I’ll be right back!”
    The only light in the room was from the roaring fire. Noah stepped over to it. Damn, he was soaked through and chilled to the bone. “Actually, I don’t have any drawers on!” he yelled back, smiling when he heard her surprised laugh. 
    Noah looked around. He hadn’t been in the hunting cabin since Avery had been attacked here by Ajax. The place looked inviting, but that was probably Skye’s touch. Their bachelor foreman had invited his half-sister to visit with him for a while. He didn’t know the details, but they’d been apart, only recently finding one another again. The McCoys were glad to have her. To give brother and sister both the privacy they needed, Skye had been given keys to his dad’s hideaway and Lance lived in another cabin about a mile away.
    All of the McCoys were fond of her. As they did with Lance, the family had included her in several dinners and celebrations. And while she always attended with a gracious thank-you and a smile, Noah could tell she held herself somewhat aloof, like she was observing life from a distance. What surprised him was when she sat with him at Libby and Aron’s wedding. During the ceremony, Skye tentatively reached out and grasped his hand. It hadn’t been a sexual thing.  Noah felt as if she were offering him comfort. Perhaps Lance had told her of his fiasco with Harper or the misunderstanding with Isaac. It could have been either. God, that day seemed like a lifetime ago instead of just a few weeks.
      “You got soaked! These jeans look new. I bet they faded on you. Do you look like a smurf below the waist?” she joked from the other room.
    Her sense of humor made Noah chuckle. He’d glimpsed it a few times since she’d been visiting. Once Isaac had presented her with a couple of buckeyes, trying to convince her she was holding deer testicles and she’d zinged him with a one-liner which had brought the biker up short and caused Noah to almost choke with laughter.
    He decided to flirt a little bit. “If I’m gonna have a touch of blue on my private parts, I’d rather it be from you, Miss Skye.” God, he loved her name. Skye Blue. Just saying it made him happy.
    “You’re a nut.” She threw him a towel at him as she