Breathe You In by Lily Harlem

Author:Lily Harlem
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Adult, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
Publisher: Lily Harlem
Published: 2013-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

When I woke the next morning the scent of wet grass and clean air filtered in through the open window. I stretched across the bed, hoping to find Ruben, but the sheet was rumpled and cool and there was no warm body to snuggle into.

A rattle of pans and the radio flicking on in the kitchen caught my attention, and I smiled, enjoying being greeted by movement and life in my flat. Slipping eagerly from my bed, I tugged on a pair of knickers and a short, pink silk dressing gown then headed into the bathroom.

I freshened up, my body feeling a little stiff and tender. My night with Ruben had exercised muscles and stretched parts of me unused to being stretched. I smiled at my reflection, dragged a brush through my hair then brushed my teeth.

“Hey, sleepyhead,” Ruben said when I wandered into the kitchen. “I’m making eggs is that all right with you?”

“Great.” I walked up behind him.

He wore low-slung jeans, his feet and top half bare. I wrapped my arms around his waist and rested my cheek between his shoulders.

He stopped what he was doing and pressed his hands over my forearms. “Last night was incredible,” he said quietly.

“I know.” As I spoke my cheek wrinkled against his back, and I smiled at how I much I adored touching him, with every part of my body on any part of his.

He turned, spinning within my arms, and hugged me close. I tipped my face to his neck, breathed in his scent, and felt the roughness of his beardy growth on my nose.

“I want to spend the day with you,” he said, stroking my hair then down over the slippery material of my gown, right into the small of my back. “It’s the Grand Prix, I have hospitality tickets. How do you fancy it?”

I looked up at him. “I can’t. I’m going to Leicester. My friend Felicity is getting married next month and it’s the hen party tonight. I would cancel, but Melanie, that’s my old boss, she rang yesterday to make sure I was still going and is expecting me to stay at hers.”

His face dropped for a second, but then he smiled. “That sounds like fun, it will be good for you to see your old friends.”

“I think so.” I hoped so. I’d touched the edge of happiness again and I was reluctant for the spell to be broken by stepping back into my previous life—being the old, sad Katie. I didn’t want her to come back with me, thinking it was okay to move in like an unwelcome guest.

“It will be.” He pinched my chin in his fingers and thumb. “Those hen parties always look pretty wild, you can let your hair down.”

“I’d rather be with you.”

“And I’d rather be with you, but hey, maybe tomorrow?”

I untangled myself from him, stepped away and into the dining area. Looked at the photograph of Matt and I on our wedding day. A balloon of sadness grew in my chest, but I didn’t let it overwhelm me, I contained it—now was not the time.

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