Beauty and the Reclusive Millionaire by Rachael Stewart

Author:Rachael Stewart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-10-26T19:38:02+00:00

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Alaric opened the bathroom cabinet and took out the packet he knew he had. After all, he’d only relocated it very recently to make room for Catherine in the master suite. He hadn’t expected to be getting it out again. In fact, he’d almost thrown them away, but the act had felt too final.

Too final? He wanted to laugh as he scanned the packet for a date, struggling to read as his hand shook with the realisation that they were really doing this...and then what?

How could they possibly return to how things were come morning?

Would she expect more? Would he?

Didn’t this change everything?

It’s one night of passion, came the voice of reason, no more, no less. The future didn’t come into it.

But what of Fred? Did one night of bliss make him a traitor to his guilt?

Though surely he would suffer more for having known her, and let her go.

His gut rolled with the emptiness of it, his heart too quick to follow, and he pushed it all from his mind, projecting her instead—Catherine, in his bed, naked and waiting.

He closed the cabinet and caught his reflection in the mirror, the flush to his skin making his scars more garish. Was she crazy? How could she want this? Him?

The contrast between them couldn’t be more profound and yet...she did want him.

He felt it in every caress of her fingers, her lips, saw it in her eyes and heard it in her voice as she’d made him feel worshipped...him.

And shouldn’t he be the one doing the worshipping when he had her in his bed?

He strode back into the master bedroom to find her just as he left her. Naked, smiling, wanton.

‘I was about to come and look for you.’

‘Like that?’

She pushed herself up onto one elbow and gave a nod.

‘Now I wish you had...’

He threw the packet down on the bedside table and joined her, his hand reaching out to cup her hip, to stroke at her skin that was so impossibly soft beneath his touch.

How long had it been since he’d touched a woman? His fingers trembled with the truth—too many years to count.

‘Miss me that much?’

She leaned into him, her eyes worshipping him all over again. ‘Too much.’

She hooked her leg over him, forcing him onto his back as she planted her palms into his chest and let her hair tickle at his skin.

‘How long has it been for you?’

He frowned. Was she in his mind? ‘A while.’

‘Am I the first since you’ve lived here?’

He chuckled quietly. ‘Do you see me hiding any other women here?’

Her eyes sparkled with his tease. ‘You want to take it slow?’

He scoffed as he fought the urge to roll her back under him and demonstrate his answer. ‘You know that conversation about emasculating me...’

Now she smiled. ‘I don’t want to be too much for you.’

‘Right, that does it.’ He rolled her under him, relishing her squeal of delight as he covered her body with his. ‘I’m taking the lead.’

He rolled his hips, her moan his reward.

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