Bound by the Kincaid Baby by Emilie Rose

Author:Emilie Rose [Rose, Emilie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Payback Affairs, Category
ISBN: 9780373768813
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2008-07-07T22:00:00+00:00

“You handled the children well today,” Carly said as she joined Mitch in the living room just before noon.“I spent every summer since high school working on Kincaid cruise ships. Corralling and controlling kids was part of the job.” He waggled his water glass and raised a dark eyebrow, silently asking if she’d like a drink.

“A glass of Della’s lemonade would be great.”

He turned to the wet bar to fulfill her request.

“What kinds of jobs?” She placed the baby monitor on the coffee table and sank into the overstuffed sofa cushions. Her sleepless night was catching up with her. She probably should have requested something with caffeine.

“Have you ever been on a cruise?” He passed her the glass, and their fingers touched.

She fought a shiver and shook her head. “Thanks.”

Instead of taking the high-backed wing chair he’d been using since she moved in, Mitch sat beside her. His weight tipped the cushion and Carly toward him, and even though their bodies didn’t touch, he settled near enough that she could feel the heat radiating off him and smell the potent combination of his cologne mixed with fresh sweat and grass from running around Tina’s yard with the boys. Heady stuff. The subsequent squeezing of her stomach had nothing to do with hunger due to the approaching lunch hour.

Her gaze fixed on his muscular legs below the hem of his shorts. A spattering of dark curls covered his tanned skin. She yearned to test the texture, but tightened her grip on her cold glass instead and gulped her drink, hoping the bite of the tart lemonade would shock her hormones back into line.

“There are a variety of activities on board, from day-care-type settings to swimming and rock climbing lessons. When we dock at Crescent Key, KCL’s private island, there are scuba lessons, parasailing, kayaking, wind surfing, Jet Ski rentals and an inflatable kids’ water park.”

“The Kincaids own an island?”

“The company does.”

She digested that and the slight chill in his voice, and then backtracked to the rest of what he’d said. “So you don’t hate children?”

He frowned, leaned back against the cushions and stretched an arm along the sofa behind her. The shift of his body caused his knee to nudge hers. Atoms of awareness coalesced at the contact point. She inched her leg back, but he moved to fill the tiny gap she’d created. Her pulse sped up. “What gave you the impression I did?”

“Besides the snowman act?”

He lifted his water glass and took a sip. “I don’t get attached to the ones who are only passing through. I’ve done that before and I didn’t enjoy the aftermath.”

“Your fiancée’s children?”

If she hadn’t been only inches from him, she would have missed his slight flinch. He nodded. Once.

Her heart ached for him. “Do you keep in touch with Travis and Ashley?”

He sat forward, braced his elbows on his knees and studied the contents of his glass. “I tried at first. But it confused them. So I stopped.”

He wasn’t a heartless bastard after all.

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