A Bride for the Black Sheep Brother by Emily McKay

Author:Emily McKay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Ten

When Cooper returned to Denver on Monday morning, he found staying away from Portia was harder than it should have been. But after all, she’d been right. He did have a business to run. Normally, he worked long hours. The work demanded it. He demanded it of himself. If he didn’t expect himself to give Flight+Risk everything he had, then he wouldn’t ask employees to do the same. Despite that, as one week bled into the next, he found himself increasingly distracted by Portia.

They spoke on the phone almost every night. The nights they didn’t talk, they video chatted. Every telephone conversation was ostensibly about the project, but that didn’t mitigate the intimacy of lying in bed at night, listening to her talk about her day. He automatically found himself describing the ups and downs of running Flight+Risk. Maybe it came from her years of marriage to Dalton, or maybe from the psychology degree she swore she never used, but she had a keen understanding of what it took to run a company and manage so many personalities. All of which made her very easy to talk to.

Worse still were the hours the hours they spent video chatting. She insisted he needed to see things like sample fabrics and invitations and that the easiest way to do that was through Skype. Who was he to complain when it gave him the chance to see her relaxed with a glass of wine in one hand, her hair twisted up in an easy knot on the top of her head, dressed in adorable pajamas dotted with snowmen. He never would have thought snowmen could be sexy, but on Portia, they were more tempting than the hottest lingerie.

He delighted in taking them off her over and over again the following weekend when he visited her in Provo. Yes, he was there to check on her progress, but in reality, they spent much of their time in bed. The weekend after that, he didn’t even bother going up to Bear Creek Lodge more than once. Instead, they stayed in Provo. There seemed to be an unspoken agreement between them that they would only be together as long as the project lasted. Suddenly, a month didn’t seem like nearly enough time.

It was early Sunday morning, before they’d even finished their coffee, he looked up to see her savoring a bite of her croissant. Her eyes drifted closed as she licked the flaky pastry off her fingertips.

She looked delightfully sensual, and it was all he could do not to take her back to bed right then. Instead he skimmed his hand up her bare leg and teased. “Didn’t I tell you they had the best food in town?”

She shifted into his touch. “You were right. I will never doubt you again for as long as I live.”

The husky promise in her words sent a thrill through him. It was the first time she’d so much as hinted at anything beyond this month.

She must have realized her meaning as soon as he did, because she stilled instantly, then pulled back.

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