Forever Holding Phil by Calle J. Brookes

Author:Calle J. Brookes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940937496
Publisher: Lost River Lit Publishing, LLC

Twenty-Nine

The first thing she noticed was that the chest was completely naked. The second thing she noticed was that the chest beneath her hands was hard as a rock. Lean. Well-toned.

Then she saw the scar.

“You’ve had heart surgery?” she asked before she thought about how nosy the question was.

He nodded, covered her fingers with his own, keeping her hands trapped against all that male skin. “Found an issue about four years ago. Genetic, correctible. Shouldn’t cause a problem now. I did lose two brothers to it before we realized what it was. It’s relatively rare, apparently. Thankfully, it didn’t pass on after us. Except for Patton. He’ll need minor surgery in a year or two—his won’t be as invasive as mine, as mine was emergency, but we’re all good now.”

“I’m sorry about your brothers. How many were there of you?” The flesh beneath her palms was warm. She wanted to keep touching him.

“There were eight of us. Now it’s just Ned, Nick, Bill, and me. Our youngest brother, Bruce, took off years ago with a much younger woman. Left three young daughters behind. We’re not sure where he’s at now or if he’s even alive. Haven’t heard from him since. His girls are in their early twenties now; their mother took off the year before he did.”

“I’m sorry. That must have been hard for his kids.”

“It was.” His hands had slipped down. Wrapped around her waist. “Honey, you keep pressing up against me like that…I am just a man.”

Glenna’s heart flew into her throat in an instant. Her eyes met his.

There was hunger there. Real hunger.

Not just the expression that would be on Lincoln’s face when he decided he wanted sex and she would do for the night.

She had a feeling Phil was actually seeing her. And not just any random warm body to play with.

She would never be one hundred percent certain who all Lincoln had slept with in the last few years of their marriage. He’d told her when she was pregnant with Elly that he didn’t find her hot any longer. Didn’t want to bother having sex with her if all she was going to do was be pregnant after.

That was when she’d first suspected he was having an affair.

She’d asked him. He hadn’t denied it.

Not exactly something a woman with two young children, morning sickness and stretch marks had wanted to hear at the time. She’d told him the truth—if that was the case, he could just keep his hands to himself.

He had. Mostly. There had been once or twice when he hadn’t. When he had been insistent that he still loved her, and it would be good for both of them if they were intimate again.

She had given in. Because she’d wanted to preserve their marriage. Glenna should have left him long before.

But if she had, she wouldn’t have Elly. She had no real regrets.

Phil’s hands felt nothing like Lincoln’s. The expression in his eyes was definitely not like her ex’s.

It was just her and Phil and heat between them.

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