Briarwood

I thought my heart would stop when I saw Josie fall while she was waiting tables. Finding out it was a wasp that caused all the commotion didn’t help matters. I had a cousin die of anaphylactic shock when I was a kid. Instead of putting her hand in cold water and dabbing on aloe like old Mrs. Tennyson insisted, I panicked and scooped her up, then barked at my partner to watch the bar. We were halfway to the hospital, blowing through every stop sign in town, before I realized that's where I was headed.
Can’t say I’m proud of it, but I’ve learned a few things about myself in the last few hours. The most important one being I’m way more attached to Josie than I should be. I’m not an idiot. I’ve known for a year or two that I shouldn’t be looking at her as more than my best friend’s daughter, but it doesn’t seem to be something I can stop. Looking is bad, but I didn’t touch her. And I thought I could live with things the way they were. Be her friend, and her boss, and if my eyes strayed a moment too long, who was I hurting? Just myself.
Then she told the doctor I was her husband so I could stay with her.
I’m a bad, bad man because I like the way she blushes when I call her Wifey. Love it, in fact. I’m not sure what possessed the girl to make such a claim, but hell if I’m not gonna run with it. Now that I’ve touched her, it’s all I want to do.

*This story is set in the Blackwell universe but can be read as a standalone novel. It is a safe read, meaning there is no cheating, no sharing, no cliffhanger, and no other man/woman drama. It comes with a sticky-sweet guaranteed happily ever after. *

Mac:
"You want me to do what, now?" I must be going deaf, because there's no way I heard what I think I did. My old buddy, Noah, didn't just ask me to eat his sister's cherry pie. Not that I’ve never had my fantasies. Fantasies I refused to act on when we were kids, to the point I joined up and got the hell out of town to stop myself from pursuing her.
Tilly Baxter was too young back then, way too good for the likes of me, and my best friend’s little sister. Obviously off limits in every way. Except now that we’re older, those reasons don’t seem as pressing anymore. Especially with her brother practically serving her up to me on a silver platter.
I’m not the same poor kid who left town all those years ago. I'm back for good and this time I’m not letting her get away.
Tilly Baxter's going to be my wife. She just doesn't know it yet.

*Dear Reader, this is a short, extra steamy, romance with no cheating, no sharing, no other man/woman drama and a guaranteed, sticky-sweet happily ever after.
*Second chance at the romance that could have been.
*Mutual pining
*Innocent, sassy heroine
*Mountain Man Romance
*Double V-cards
*Obsessed hero
*Small town