From the First by Jessica Bird

Author:Jessica Bird [Bird, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, New York (State), Travel, Man-Woman Relationships, Love Stories, Category, Widows, Moorehouse Legacy, Bed and Breakfast Accommodations, Bed & Breakfast, Single Men
ISBN: 9780263860726
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Alex didn’t know how long he sat in the chair, blinking back tears he refused to let fall.Crying wasn’t only a worthless thing to do. It was another kind of self-serving release he refused to let himself have.

Oh, God…had that really just happened? Had he truly done that to her?

Yes, he thought. He could still smell her glorious passion on him.

It had been so wrong of him. And felt so perfect.

Her body was even more beautiful than his dreams had made it out to be, and her skin was even softer, especially where her hot secrets were kept. When she’d flown apart in his arms, he’d watched her with greed, thinking this was what he had always wanted. His name coming out of her lips because of what he was doing to her.

For those few moments he’d joined them, he’d known paradise. She was so very tight that every stroke had been a revelation of ecstasy, like nothing he’d ever had, nothing he’d find again. Pulling back from her had nearly killed him. He’d been right in the very beginnings of a shattering release, the pulses just starting to take his breath away, when he’d stopped.

Because how could he empty himself into her body, knowing what he did? It would be tantamount to violating her, because she would deny him if she knew the truth.

From somewhere in the shop, a cell phone rang. The tone wasn’t his.

He looked up. She’d left hers behind. Forgotten it along with the clipboard in her rush to leave.

Dear Lord, what she must think of him. And how she must feel, to have been left on the bed like that. He should do something.

Except, what were his options? What could he say to her to make things better?

I stopped because you deserve so much better than a savage like me coming inside of you.

The phone fell silent, only to ring again. On the fourth round of chiming, he went over and flipped it open.

Before he could say a word, a male voice blasted into his ear.

“Cass, what’s wrong? That message you just left sounded damned scary.”

O’Banyon.

Alex went cold.

“Hello?” O’Banyon said.

“She’s at Gray’s.”

There was a long silence and then that male voice dropped down a register. “Why do you have Cass’s phone, Moorehouse?”

“She left it at the site.” Which was technically true. “Do you have Gray’s number?”

“Do you know why she was crying tonight?”

Ah…hell. Alex dragged a hand through his hair.

“What the hell did you do to her?” O’Banyon snarled.

“Do you have Gray’s number?”

“So help me God, Moorehouse, I’m not going to allow you to grind her up. I’ll come north tonight and drag her back to Manhattan if I have to.”

“Suit yourself, O’Banyon. I won’t stand in your way. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to hang up on you and turn this phone off. Your voice in my ear is nothing I want to fall asleep to.”

After he’d shut the cell down, Alex went straight for the scotch bottle and poured himself a tall one.

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