Harlequin Desire: April 2022, Box Set 1 of 2 by Brenda Jackson

Author:Brenda Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

A few hours later, Cody looked at Tinsley, tucked into her chair, black-framed glasses on her pretty nose. Her fingers raced across her tablet’s small keyboard, and noticing that she was in the zone, he decided he needed more coffee. She didn’t notice when he stood up and headed for her kitchen.

It was snowing hard outside, and the wind had picked up. Wonderful. He couldn’t wait for winter to be over. He wanted the heat of summer, to feel the sun on his skin. If he wasn’t so swamped, he’d head down to the Caribbean and dive in those warm waters, doze in the sun and sleep with his windows and doors wide open, cooled by island breezes.

But he had too much to do here, too many responsibilities. And he’d gathered one more: Tinsley and her baby. His baby. Theirs.

Cody glared at the coffee machine. He’d spent the past week digesting the news, trying to make sense of the turn his life had taken. Initially, he’d wanted to be angry, but spending New Year’s Eve together had been a choice they’d both made. While he’d used a condom, he knew that abstinence was the only foolproof means of contraception. Abstinence had never been an option—he liked sex, dammit—so he’d taken his chances, rolled the dice and for twenty years or so he’d won against the house. This one time, with his ex-sister-in-law, he’d lost.

She’d all but given him permission to walk away, to be an anonymous sperm donor. She’d told him she was happy to be a single mom and yeah, he’d be lying if he said he wasn’t initially, briefly tempted to walk away. After raising JT, being responsible for his brother’s welfare at such a young age, he’d vowed never to put himself in the position of looking after anyone but himself again.

He looked at Tinsley again, taking in her thin face and tired eyes. The pregnancy was hard on her, anyone could see that, but he admired her just-push-through-it attitude.

She was a strong woman and he admired strength, tenacity, the ability to keep on carrying on.

In some ways, they were very alike. Driven, determined, stoic. They both demanded too much, liked getting their way.

And, despite the big complication of the pregnancy and having to work together, he was still insanely attracted to her, to this woman who made him feel scratchy, off-balance and out of sorts. Since New Year’s Eve, he just had to think of her and his heart sped up and his lungs forgot how to do their job. He recalled, in Technicolor detail, every kiss, the silkiness of her skin, her breathy voice in his ear telling him how good he made her feel.

And when he was with her, he couldn’t keep himself from touching her, partly from desire, but also because in his arms was where he needed her to be. In his arms, she could relax, and she could rest. Tinsley raised his protective instincts and he couldn’t work out why.

Because

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