Coming Home for Christmas by RaeAnne Thayne

Author:RaeAnne Thayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2019-07-15T17:30:26+00:00

Chapter Twelve

This couldn’t really be happening. Could it?

A few hours ago, he had been so furious at this woman in his arms. He hadn’t wanted to look at her, forget about holding her like this, kissing her with this tender emotion swirling around him.

How had everything changed so quickly? In only a few hours, his perspective had completely shifted.

She hadn’t left him and their kids. She had suffered a terrible accident and had had to relearn everything. That she wasn’t dead, that she was here, warm and sweet in his arms, seemed like the most priceless of gifts.

Their kiss the day before had come from a place of anger and pain. This was far different. This was a reunion, a celebration of sorts. As he kissed her, tasted her, he was yanked back more than a decade, to those heady first months of their marriage when he couldn’t get enough of the amazing woman who had miraculously fallen for him.

She didn’t look the same now. Her cheekbones were different, her nose missing the little bump he had loved. But her mouth tasted the same and her eyes still seemed to see straight through him.

He had missed her every single day of the past seven years. She was here, right now, in his arms, and he felt as if he had been waiting for this moment forever.

They kissed for a long time, standing there by the fireplace in the great room. He kissed her until he couldn’t think straight, until the initial tenderness gave way to hunger. He wanted to take her into the master bedroom off the kitchen, to explore every part of her he had missed so much.

He even moved in that direction, not really thinking it through but knowing he wanted to be closer to her. They had made it just to the door when Finn suddenly barked from his spot by the fire and the sound seemed to arrow straight through the haze of desire, especially when he heard what sounded like a key in the front door.

Cassie and Bridger were home from school.

He slid his mouth away, dazed and aching for more. Somehow he managed to pull his brain together long enough to step away from her an instant before the front door opened.

“Hey, Finn. Who’s a good boy? Huh?” Bridger said. He could picture the boy petting the dog while he jumped all over him.

“Dad? Are you home?” Cassie called.

His eyes met Elizabeth’s and the shocked arousal in them almost had him reaching for her again.

They had always been like this together, incinerating at the first touch.

“Wait here,” he murmured to her, kind of nudging her into the room, before he turned to face the children. “Grab a snack and I...we will be there in a moment.”

“Who’s we?” Bridger asked. “Is it Aunt Megan? I need to tell her about the new game we played at recess.”

How was he supposed to break the news to the kids that their mother was alive and well and in their house? He had no idea how to find the right words for that kind of revelation.

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