Healing Her Heart by Audra North

Author:Audra North
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Entangled;Select Contemporary;contemporary romance;romance;audra north;stanton family;friends to lovers;fling;novella
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-04-26T03:13:42+00:00

Chapter Seven

Carrie couldn’t stop yawning. Or smiling.

After they’d ended up in the shower after dinner—which had turned into the longest, hottest shower of her life—she and Greg had settled on the couch to watch a movie before heading back to bed to play under the covers. They hadn’t talked about whether he would sleep over, but she was glad he’d made the decision to stay.

This morning, he had gotten out of her bed at dawn, looking none the worse for wear. She had marveled aloud at how refreshed he looked, while she felt like a limp rag. He’d shrugged, dropped a kiss on her nose, and immediately looked embarrassed at doing it before explaining, “That’s because I’m usually awake for days at a time, but for much less appealing reasons that what we did last night. I feel more refreshed than I have in years, in fact.”

She’d yawned and smiled. “Glad I could be of service.”

By the time she crawled out of bed and shuffled into the kitchen, he had made a pot of coffee and gotten dressed, looking impossibly sexy in the same clothes he’d worn the day before.

She was wearing a frumpy terry bathrobe, had dark circles under her eyes, and a serious case of bedhead.

“It’s really not fair that you’re more beautiful than I am.”

He laughed and kissed her. “Never. You’re the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever known.”

She blushed. She’d forgotten how good it felt to hear a man say things like that.

Don’t get too used to it. This is only temporary. A convenient arrangement. He’s using you for sex the way Eddie used you to get his family off his back.

Except this time, she knew about it. And she was using Greg, too. She was using as well as she was being used.

Reminding herself of that should have made her feel better, but somehow…it hadn’t. Now that they were both up and another day had begun, she still couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off.

He pulled her into a hug and dropped a kiss on the top of her head. Her heart fluttered and sang at the sweet gesture.

That. That was what was wrong. Small intimacies like kissing her hair or holding her hand or letting her put her feet on his legs to warm them when the air conditioner had kicked on in the night and she’d gotten cold. Those things turned incredible, world-rocking, hotter-than-hot just sex into more than just sex.

And yet, they’d agreed that this was so very temporary.

So why did it feel like the start of something long-term?

Maybe you should ask him. You know, be frank and forthright and all those other things that you keep blathering on about.

She looked up at him from the circle of his arms, thrilled and confused and completely turned around by the smile in his eyes as he looked back at her.

“Are you—do you want to drive in with me today?”

Chicken.

He shook his head. “Actually, I have to go back to my place for a bit and get a change of clothes first, catch up on e-mail, that kind of thing.

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