Secret Gifts (Steamy Version) by Elena Aitken Read Free Book Online Page A

trace of vulnerability was in his eyes, but when Megan blinked, that too was gone.
    “Are you ready to go?”
    Gage nodded and walked by, brushing her with his arm as he moved to the door. She grabbed her sweater where he’d touched her. Even through the fabric, there was a spark of heat on her skin.
    “Well,” he said. He turned where he stood at the front door, a smile on his face. “Are you coming?”
    Cursing herself for her moment of vulnerability, Megan nodded and fixed a mask of professionalism on her face before joining him outside.
    They walked for a few minutes in silence before Megan stopped to take her sweater off. The sun had warmed up the spring day almost to the point of hot. At least when they weren’t in the shade of the pines.
    When she pulled the sweater off and over her head, her eyes met Gage’s. “Hot, are you?”
    Her cheeks heated with the innuendo he implied but she ignored him, tied the sweater around her waist and kept walking. “I’m assured the climb is going to be quite a workout,” she said when he caught up with her again. “Are you sure you’ll be able to keep up?”
    It was a stupid question and she knew it. Gage was in amazing shape, and she didn’t need his insane display on the treadmill earlier to show her that. It was no secret that his role on Tumbleweed was physically demanding. Even she knew there was nothing she could throw at him that he wouldn’t excel at.
    He surprised her when he said, “I don’t know. I’ve never been rock climbing before.” She raised her eyebrows at him. “What? There aren’t a lot of mountains in Indiana.”
    “Okay, maybe not on a mountain then,” she said. “But you’ve really never even gone to a climbing wall? Half the gyms have them now.”
    “Maybe in California,” he said. “But even so, I never spent much time in a gym before all this movie stuff.”
    She laughed. “This ‘movie stuff’?”
    His smile brightened his chocolate eyes. “You know what I meant.”
    “Okay, fine. But I don’t believe that you never went to the gym. You’re in way too good of shape for me to fall for that.”
    He stopped short on the path. “You think I’m in good shape?” He flexed his biceps and wiggled his eyebrows.
    “Stop it.” Megan gave him a gentle shove and he stumbled backwards in jest. “You know you’re ridiculously hot. All the magazines say so. You don’t need me stroking your ego.” She walked past him but shot a look back in his direction.
    “But you still think so?” Gage grinned and she couldn’t help but laugh again.
    He was a charmer, that was for sure. And it was also exactly why he didn’t have any trouble finding a woman to share his bed and get him into trouble, she reminded herself. She gave her head a shake. Incredibly handsome or not, he was still her client, and she had a job to do. Falling for his charms was not going to help her get that done.
    “We’re here,” she said, leaving his question hanging. Instead of going in to the main building, they walked around the sidewalk to the back, where Megan had arranged to meet Bo, the man in charge of outdoor treks. He was exactly where Carmen had said he’d be, and there was a woman with him as well.
    “Ms. Powers,” Bo said, when they came around the corner. He held out his hand. “I’m Bo Clancy and this is my soon-to-be wife, Morgan.” He looked at his fiancée in a way that made Megan’s heart flip and a squeeze of remorse hit her unexpectedly. She stuck out her hand and shook his.
    “Call me Megan,” she said. “And this is Gage Mitchell.” She waited for the excitement and the general fawning that generally came with celebrities, especially ones like Gage, but it didn’t come. Instead, both Bo and Morgan simply shook hands with Gage and smiled warmly.
    “It’s nice to meet you, Mr. Mitchell,” Morgan said. “I hope you both don’t mind me tagging along today. I have the afternoon off and it’s been ages since I’ve been out for a