than his muscles. And far too familiar.
“What are you doing here?”
* * *
Sam McCormack gritted his teeth against the sharp tug of irritation that assaulted him when Madison West asked the question that had been on his own lips.
“I rented the place,” he responded, not inviting her in. “Though I could ask you the same question.”
She continued to do a little bounce in place, her arms folded tight against her body, her hands clasped beneath her chin. “And you’d get the same answer,” she said. “I’m across the driveway.”
“Then you’re at the wrong door.” He made a move to shut said door, and she reached out, stopping him.
“Sam. Do you always have to be this unpleasant?”
It was a question that had been asked of him more than once. And he gave his standard answer. “Yes.”
“Sam,” she said, sounding exasperated. “The power went out, and I’m freezing to death. Can I come in?”
He let out a long-suffering sigh and stepped to the side. He didn’t like Madison West. He never had. Not from the moment he had been hired on as a farrier for the West estate eight years earlier. In all the years since he’d first met Madison, since he’d first started shoeing her horses, he’d never received one polite word from her.
But then, he’d never given one either.
She was sleek, blonde and freezing cold—and he didn’t mean because she had just come in from the storm. The woman carried her own little snow cloud right above her head at all times, and he wasn’t a fan of ice princesses. Still, something about her had always been like a burr beneath his skin that he couldn’t get at.
“Thank you,” she said crisply, stepping over the threshold.
“You’re rich and pretty,” he said, shutting the door tight behind her. “And I’m poor. And kind of an ass. It wouldn’t do for me to let you die out there in a snowdrift. I would probably end up getting hung.”
Madison sniffed, making a show of brushing snowflakes from the shoulders of her jacket. “I highly doubt you’re poor,” she said drily.
She wasn’t wrong. A lot had changed since he’d gone to work for the Wests eight years ago. Hell, a lot had changed in the past year.
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