Fighting For Her by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.

Chapter Eleven

The bed was empty. Rick’s hand had reached for Kat, but when he just touched the cool sheet, his eyes immediately flew open. Alarm had his heart racing as he surged upright and his gaze raked the motel room. The empty motel room.

Shit. He jumped from the bed. Grabbed for his jeans and tried to hop into them. He’d slept like the dead. What was wrong with him? He usually woke at the lightest of sounds. But Kat would be good at staying quiet while she slipped away. He had one leg in his jeans. He hopped to get in the next leg and turned to see—

Kat, with her left shoulder propped against the bathroom doorframe. She watched him, a faint smile on her lips and her brows raised.

He yanked the jeans up to his hips. Zipped and buttoned in a flash.

“Is this your normal morning routine?” Kat asked. Damn, she looked good. Her face had been scrubbed clean and her wet hair slid over her shoulders. A towel curled around her body. She was only wearing a towel. Sexy as fuck and his dick immediately jumped to full and happy attention even as he realized…

She’d taken a shower and he hadn’t heard the thunder of the water?

I am so losing my edge.

She was staring expectantly at him. She’d asked him a question, only he had zero clue what that question had been. Rick rolled back his shoulders. “Say again?” What in the hell had she said?

Her smile stretched as she motioned toward him. Down him. “The jumping routine when you get out of bed. Do you hop into your clothes every day?”

“I thought you were gone.” The words came from him before he could think better of them. As soon as they were out—

Her smile faded. “Oh. I see. You thought I’d run from you.”

Why do I always say the wrong shit? “I…didn’t see you in the bathroom.”

“I opened the door just as you started hopping, so, no, you wouldn’t have seen me. Your back was turned at the time.” A pause. “You thought I had sex with you and then ran away the next day? Is that what your lovers usually do?”

“They don’t stay the night.”

“Their choice? Or yours?”

“Both.” He took a step toward her. Then stopped. “I’m not big on…having someone that close. It’s too intimate.”

She seemed to consider that. “Sleeping together is intimate, but sex isn’t?”

Yes. No. Dammit.

Her gaze held his. “You said you wanted me close last night.”

“You’re different.” He took a few more steps toward her. Slowly, the way a hunter would approach prey.

“Why am I different? Because you thought that if you had me in your arms, you’d wake up when I tried to slip away?” Kat shook her head.

“Obviously, that didn’t happen,” he muttered.

“You were sleeping hard, and, to tell you the truth, I thought you were cute. You didn’t want to let me go when I was ready to get out of bed. I had to pry your hands loose.”

“Cute?” Rick repeated as he stood before her.

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