Page 33 of Tangled up in You

"You’re coming home," he whispered, watching as her pupils dilated and the flush filling her cheeks deepened. "With us."

The quiet, confident determination he’d said that with might have carried more weight coming from Jonah. That shouldn’t imply he didn’t mean it. It also didn’t make it any less a fact. And Jake probably wouldn’t admit to it later, but he held his breath. What she would say next was that important to him.

To them.

The distinct, crisp echo of pelting snow filled the silence. That and the blood pounding in his ears, as Alyssa’s steady stare held his. Those green depths told him nothing, until…

His heart sank as she flicked her eyes past him toward his brothers. Because there it was. The thing he’d dreaded.

Indecision.

It crossed her lovely face lifting toward the sky, her eyes blinking fast at the heavy flakes landing on her lashes and cheeks.

She was going to say…

"Yes."

CHAPTER 5

"Yes?"

Josh blew out the breath he’d been holding at Lyssa’s answer and Jake’s disbelieving response.

"Damn, right, yes," Jonah muttered, while Josh kept his eyes on her lowering head, before her clear gaze landed on him. After the look of uncertainty her eyes had held seconds before, he’d been positive they’d be finding a way to get her down the mountain and to her own house. Of course, that would have entailed corralling Jake to help him tie Jonah up in the back seat to get it done.

"Okay," Josh said, while Jonah moved in and lifted her up and inside the truck.

"Oh, god," Lyssa moaned, her body seeming to sink into the seat, while her eyes closed in a look that reminded him of orgasmic bliss. "Heated seats."

"She’s killing me," Josh muttered, meeting his brothers’ gazes as Jonah shut the door. That was just the kind of moan he wanted to hear in their bed, and that same look of complete satisfaction when they were done.

"You think heated seats could act as an aphrodisiac?"

Josh frowned at Jake’s question, then shook his head at his brother’s familiar smirk.

"I don’t think so," Jonah groused. "Now, let’s get going before she changes her mind." His brother grimaced at them. "And don’t think I didn’t know you two would have found a way to get her down the mountain if that’s what she’d insisted on. With or without me."

"True," Jake said. "I’d already planned how we’d tie you up."

"Me too," Josh added in, snickering.

"You two are a riot," Jonah grumbled as he glanced into the passenger window. "So, again, let’s go. My balls are starting to freeze."

Jake laughed as he opened the door and got in. Josh followed him, then wanted to moan too at how heat seeped through his damp jeans.Hisballs appreciated it.

"Go slow," Lyssa said. "Just in case, we…" She took a deep breath. "Just in case."

"Don’t worry, baby," Jonah said, his tone gentle as he kept both hands tight to the steering wheel. "We’ll go slow."

His brother hadn’t added that going slow was theonlyway they could drive at this point. Josh had been deadly serious when he’d said they could be stuck if they didn’t get going. Looking ahead through the windshield, then out the side window, they still might. It was coming down fast and hard now.

There had beensnowevents—something the overzealous weatherman liked to call them—since they’d moved to Parson’s Ridge, but never one like this. This was?—

"How can you even make out where we’re going?" Alyssa’s quiet question was a good one. He and his brothers had driven this road for three years, but evenhewas having a hard time making out the way.

"Don’t worry, baby." Jonah’s own quiet response exuded confidence he hoped his brother actually had. "I know every turn in this road."

"I can’t see the sides of the road anymore," Alyssa said. "If Becca’s car?—"

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