Fortune's Heirs: Reunion by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd.

She woke up alone the next morning to the ding of her doorbell.

Groggy from lack of sleep, Christina practically rolled out of bed, wincing at the soreness of muscles she hadn’t used in years.

After blinking herself awake and glancing at the clock—shoot, she’d forgotten to set her alarm and it was a half hour after her usual reporting time—Christina absorbed the sight of her rumpled bed.

The evidence of Derek having slept there last night.

The word sleep being debatable, of course.

Was he still here in the condo somewhere?

Two more dings echoed through the air. Maybe it was Derek?

Christina smiled, a false sense of modesty causing her to grab a white terry-cloth housecoat, then stumble to the door.

Their sex-a-thon must have made him as famished as she was. Maybe he’d decided to surprise her with coffee and hot buttered corn tortillas from the café next door?

And to think she’d believed that she’d scared him off for a minute there last night. When he’d asked about old boyfriends, she’d only wanted to make light of her very thin book of love. Had wanted to put Derek at ease, since he’d seemed so out of sorts, slumped against the headrest on his side of the bed.

But she’d also wanted to test the waters, she supposed, dancing around the subject of relationships. Seeing if one could possibly be in the cards for them.

Then she’d started thinking that bringing him home had been a mistake. And that’s when she’d told him about the bet.

As she’d hoped, the mention of it had relaxed him, brought them back to the lighthearted lovemaking she’d relished earlier in the night.

In the end, part of her celebrated the fact that he’d wanted her passionately and that the rejected kiss hadn’t been any indication of her unattractiveness.

His body had told her just how beautiful she was.

Still, another part of her wondered why she wasn’t enough woman to keep him for more than a night.

The bell dinged three times.

But maybe he was here right now, asking to come back in.

Trying not to seem too excited, Christina whipped open the door, letting in the early-morning light.

And there stood Mama with her new friend, Edith.

“Rise and shine!” she said, bustling past her daughter while dragging Edith in behind her. “We were having breakfast at La Tapatia down the street when we decided to catch you before you went in to work.”

Sure. And the sky was actually made of blue cotton candy.

At least Derek wasn’t here. That would’ve been a definite nightmare, not to mention a slight technicality as far as the bet with her sisters went. But she and Derek weren’t really dating. Not if his quick disappearing act had anything to do with it.

“I invited Maria to dine with me this morning,” Edith said, as if the excuse were scripted.

A thin, nervous woman with black hair, she worked at Fortune-Rockwell as a broker’s assistant. About a month ago, Patrick had suggested that Edith check out Mama’s knitting store in Red Rock, seeing as his employee was an avid craftswoman herself.

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