As If You Never Left Me by Katriena Knights

Author:Katriena Knights
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, spicy
Publisher: Crimson Romance, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2013-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Joely woke at her usual time the next morning, even though she hadn’t set the alarm clock. It hadn’t been a comfortable night, as there simply wasn’t enough room in her bed for two people. Rey didn’t seem to have been bothered, though — he lay on his side snoring, one arm dangling off the edge of the bed. If he moved only slightly the wrong way, he’d fall flat on her braided area rug.

She slipped carefully out of the bed, resolutely focusing her attention on the closet, thinking about what she could wear today. If she looked back at the bed, where he still lay sleeping, she wasn’t sure she could be responsible for the consequences. She would climb back under the covers, meld herself to his warm body, wake him up, ride him until she screamed …

Not the kind of thoughts that were conducive to getting her to work on time. Forcing them to follow a different track, she closed her hand on the handle of the closet door. Pink sweater. It’s supposed to be chilly today. Maybe a skirt. I haven’t worn a skirt in a while.

She looked.

He had rolled on his back toward the center of the bed, one arm flung across the space she’d just left. His hair was tousled, the top half of his chest bare, the rest of him covered by crumpled sheets and quilt. He was naked underneath it, she knew, and she again fought the urge to return to the bed.

She forced her attention back to the closet. She needed time and space to think. They’d fallen too easily into the old rhythms of their lovemaking. Who was to say the other old patterns wouldn’t follow, including the ones that had destroyed their marriage? It was sweet and easy and wonderful to fall back into bed with him, but the rest would be harder.

With the pink sweater and the skirt in her hand, she took one last backward look. She wanted this, she realized. Maybe she wanted it too much.

She snagged her shoes, then dressed in the bathroom so she wouldn’t have to face the temptation of him again. Then, quietly, she slipped out of the house and headed for the shop, where she could remind herself of the woman she’d become. The woman she’d made out of herself, by herself, without Rey.

• • •

Rey wasn’t surprised to awaken alone. As wonderful as last night had been, he had expected Joely’s over-analyzing nature to prevent a repeat this morning. But that was all right. He could be patient.

As usual in the morning, the house was chillier than he was used to. Shivering, he half ran, still naked, into the living room to dig sweats out of his suitcase. Then he headed to the bathroom to finish his morning routine.

She must have left in a hurry this morning, he reflected as he retrieved some socks. There were no breakfast food smells in the kitchen, and the coffeepot was still cold.

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