Harlequin Medical Romance December 2020--Box Set 1 of 2 by Charlotte Hawkes

Author:Charlotte Hawkes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

SHE DIDN’T SLEEP, of course. Not for the next three days.

How could she when there was so much to think about? Her father. Domenico. The baby… Oh, she couldn’t stop thinking about that as it grew inside her.

And Lucas.

Here he was, strolling down the main staircase as if he was meant to be here. Her heart rate doubled at the sight of him. He was dressed in smart-casual beige chinos and a collared pale blue polo shirt that hugged his swim-assisted muscles, freshly shaved and with a smattering of grey in his hair that she hadn’t noticed before. But, then, she’d been too transfixed by his eyes and his kisses and trying to work out how they could move forward.

He’d been here three days and she’d been the perfect hostess, showing him around her country, taking him on walks through the gardens, even a trip to the theatre to see a Christmas play. They were the epitome of polite and reserved, not referring again to the kiss, but they also hadn’t got anything sorted out about the baby…neither of them seemed to have the stomach to start discussing a future that was months away.

So they’d fallen into a semi-domestic routine of meeting for breakfast, making small talk, reading through social media comments.

It was killing her.

Being so close every day and not being able to touch him.

She pretended she was fine. He kept his distance. He didn’t touch her. In fact, it was almost as if he went out of his way not to touch her, as if he’d switched off that part of him. But she couldn’t find her off switch. And her body strained for just the brush of his hand against hers.

Three days and her sexual awareness was off the scale. But at least he’d stayed.

He nodded as he reached the bottom stair. No air kisses. Still no kiss at all. ‘Good morning, Giada.’

‘Hello, Lucas.’

He’d called her Gigi down at the lake that first evening here, she remembered, and then realised she was looking at him for a sign. Something, anything to let her know what was going on in his head. Was he reliving that kiss the way she did night after night? Was he mentally pushing her up against a tree?

His face was a mask of politeness and she knew he’d retreated back behind the barrier he was too fond of constructing to keep himself free from emotional entanglements. Was that because of the way his family had treated him?

And why did it matter so much to her? She just couldn’t fathom how he’d worked his way under her skin, into her head.

He nodded at her arm. ‘Any better today? I see you’ve mastered the art of the sling.’

‘The throbbing’s stopped and the swelling’s getting better.’ She raised her right arm. ‘Maria did the sling. We watched a video on the internet. She’s determined to get it right for…when you’re not here.’

Because there would be a time, she knew, when he would have to go back to his work.

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