Harlequin Medical Romance June 2016, Box Set 2 of 2 by Lynne Marshall

Author:Lynne Marshall
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460398418
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

PATRICK WALKED INTO his house, feeling more alone than before he’d met Claudia. He dropped his keys by the door and decided to take a shower and try to forget her. Put everything in perspective and move on.

As he lay in his bed, looking up at the ceiling in a room lit only by the moonlight, he wondered why he cared so much.

He didn’t want a future. Or a family. She was being sensible and clearly he wasn’t. For the first time in more years than he could remember, he had allowed his heart to lead him.

And his desire to kiss the woman whose face would not leave his mind that night.

He had so many questions he’d wanted to ask Claudia but he hadn’t. Perhaps that was where he had gone wrong, he thought as he tossed again, throwing the bedclothes free of his body, dressed only in boxer shorts. If he knew more about Claudia he might better understand her need to push him away. She had obviously been hurt by someone.

He ran his fingers through his still damp hair and looked towards the bay window of his bedroom and the full moon suspended in the clear night sky and knew it had to have been Thomas and Luca’s father who had broken her heart. She had put on a brave face when she had spoken of him having no interest in his sons but there had to be more to it. Walking away from the boys’ father or watching him walk away surely wouldn’t have been easy for a woman like Claudia. Her family values seemed so strong.

In that case, the man who’d fathered her children must have made her fearful of getting close to anyone. But why, he wondered, would any man treat a woman that way? It didn’t make sense in the way he saw the world. A man should protect a woman, and particularly the mother of his children. He should lay his life down for her and his sons.

That was what Patrick knew in his heart he would do if he had been Thomas and Luca’s father.

After a restless night and the acceptance that Claudia wanted to be alone, Patrick knew he had to keep a distance between them. But there was one last thing he intended to do. He would visit Thomas and Luca one final time to say goodbye. Even though they would never remember him, he would never forget them.

And he would always remember their mother too.

* * *

Claudia showered and changed into the silk nightdress and wrap. As the cool softness of the fabric fell against her skin, Claudia wondered who had been so kind yet secretive in gifting them to her. Could it even have been Patrick? She shook the thought from her mind. He couldn’t have known she needed a nightdress and he’d had no time to go shopping as he had been spending all of his spare time with her. Running a soft brush

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