Baby Times Two by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459287525
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2012-07-16T07:00:00+00:00

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The shower didn’t help.

Gina lay in her bed, staring at a ceiling that was badly in need of painting, painfully aware that there was just a simple wall of plywood and plaster between her and Chase.

Between her and ecstasy.

Between her and a mistake, she reminded herself vehemently, punching her pillow, searching for a shape she couldn’t find. Sleeping with Chase would be repeating a mistake.

She’d never wanted to make a mistake so much in her life.

Restless, she tossed about in her bed, tangling the sheet into knots. The comforter lay on the floor, too warm to even consider.

When the telephone beside her bed rang, Gina gave a yelp of surprise. She groped for the receiver, wondering who could be calling her here. Had James thought of something he wanted to add to his assessment of her sketches?

Instinctively, she was searching for a pad and pencil as she said, “Hello?”

“I just called to say good night.” Chase’s voice filled her ear. Filled her head.

She swallowed, telling herself she was being an adolescent. “I just saw you.” She could hear him breathing. Why did such a natural function have to send waves of longing through her body?

“I know, and you didn’t say good night. I thought that since we’re not going to bed angry, we should say good night.”

She stared at the wall, visualizing him lying there in his bed. Chase liked to sleep in the nude. Gina looked down and saw that her toes were curled. Her hand was gripping the receiver so hard, she was surprised that it didn’t snap in half.

“Good night,” she retorted hoarsely.

The receiver slipped from her damp palm into the cradle.

She crossed her arms in front of her breasts, locking her heart in physically. He was messing with her mind, she thought. And very soon she was going to be certifiably crazy.

Was a commission worth this?

When the phone rang again a minute later, she snatched up the receiver, angry with the games he was playing. “I already said good night, what more do you want?”

“A hello would be nice.”

Gina let out a sigh and leaned back against the headboard. “Rene?”

His very proper, Harvard-educated voice filled the receiver. “Ah, so you can be civil. I thought perhaps the wilds of New Mexico had made you subhuman in a record amount of time.”

She hadn’t given him the telephone number to the hotel. She hadn’t known it. Gina frowned, puzzled. “How did you get the number here?”

“I have my ways.” He was concerned about her. Concerned about the state of her mind when she’d left him last night. He just wanted to assure himself that everything was going well and that she had just overreacted, as she was wont to do at times. “It’s not as if you were posted in outer space. I just thought I would check on you.” When she offered no words, he continued. “So how is it going?”

Gina stared malevolently at the wall that separated their rooms. “Lousy.”

“Is that a professional lousy

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