A Hero for the Twins by Susanne Hampton

Author:Susanne Hampton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-01-25T16:56:54+00:00

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‘Much better now!’

Keelan turned. ‘Yes, I can see that.’ His tone dampened the comment down to the level of understatement, and he managed to hide the fact that he hadn’t realised until she’d spoken that she’d arrived in the kitchen. The espresso pot still hissed on the stove and had masked the sound of her shoes on the hardwood floor of the hall.

She flashed her grin at him, and he grinned reluctantly back, then turned to pour the coffee into the two blue and white mugs he’d set on the blue-black granite benchtop in an attempt to hide the discomfort he still couldn’t shake.

She was actually very pretty. He hadn’t noticed it at the airport, or while showing her to her room. Now the realisation didn’t please him. His ex-stepmother, Louise, had been his father’s secretary. He didn’t trust the illusions generated when a man and his female employee spent too much time in each other’s company.

With Ms Russell’s hair straight and damp and pulled back from her face, he could see—reluctantly—what lovely bone structure she had. Beautiful skin, too, despite the freckles. The shower had left her face clean and rosy, framed by the shiny silk of hair whose escaping strands contained a dozen different shades of copper and mink and gold.

And her figure was a knock-out, now that the disguising contours of the loose top and long skirt had gone. She had long legs, a rounded and very feminine backside, a long, slender torso and breasts that would comfortably fill a man’s hands. Without being too tight or showing very much skin at all, her top and skirt advertised these assets quite plainly. They advertised the grace in her movements, too.

The blue of the new outfit was reflected in her eyes and reminded him again of sunlight on the sea, and he felt as if someone had flung open a window on a breezy day and let in the smell of salt water and the sound of gulls. His breath caught for a moment, and he shoved aside a surge of sensual awareness that he didn’t remotely want.

‘Milk?’ he said.

‘Yes, please, a big slurp of it, and please don’t tell me it’s that UHT stuff!’ Her frankness should have been awkward, lacking in class, but somehow it wasn’t.

‘No, it’s fresh,’ he answered.

She was fresh.

‘And look,’ he went on quickly. ‘I’ll leave cash in the top drawer, here, for grocery shopping. Buy anything you want, a different brand of coffee. As I said, I eat on the run mostly, but that needn’t stop you from cooking, or filling the freezer with microwave dinners, whatever.’

‘Thanks.’ Another smile. ‘I expect Tavie and Tam will limit me to the microwave option.’

‘Hmm. I’ll leave the menus for the best local take-away places in the drawer as well, shall I?’

They sat in the breakfast room and he offered her a section of the Sunday newspaper, as well as some sweet biscuits he’d found to go with the coffee. She accepted both, which meant they could eat and drink and read and not have to talk to each other.

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