Her Baby Secret by Kim Lawrence

Author:Kim Lawrence [Lawrence, Kim]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-04-11T22:02:13.281000+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

ROWENA woke to find herself staring up at a canopy. She blinked as the gold fleur-de-lis embroidered on the deep blue pleated silk slid into focus. She sat up, taking the quilt she was wrapped in with her, and realised she was lying in bed a very large, carved, dark oak four-poster and one that to her certain knowledge she’d never seen before.

It took her several hazy moments to recall the sequence of events that had taken her to the cottage and this bed. She clutched her tousled blonde head and groaned talk about complicating things!

Quinn, she reasoned, must have carried her upstairs while she’d slept, slept after…! A tide of heat washed over her body, and hastily she fast-forwarded over what had immediately preceded her falling asleep. It wasn’t easy; her thoughts showed a weak tendency to dwell dreamily on her temporary madness.

Gran! Her eyes flew open in alarm and guilt crowded out everything else. While they’d been making love her gran had been fighting for her life. How could I be so shallow…so selfish? she berated herself. Self-disgust churned in her stomach. How long had she slept? It could have been round the clock for all she knew. Her sense of disorientation increased as she looked around wildly for a clock and found none, and the heavy curtains were drawn so it was impossible to gauge the time of day.

Sliding from under the warm covers, Rowena grabbed a light embroidered throw off a small sofa at the foot of the bed to cover her nakedness. Lifting up the tail of the improvised sarong, she then ran over to the window and pushed aside the curtains. She was relieved to see it was still daylight; that relief was tempered by the fact it was still snowing like crazy.

‘I thought I heard you moving around.’

Rowena spun to face the figure who had silently materialised in the room, the chinks of light from the disturbed curtains catching her hair, turning it to a bright silver halo around her fine-boned face.

Quinn was no longer in black leather. He now looked equally virile and desirable in a pair of dark moleskin trousers and a chunky knitted cream sweater he’d obviously appropriated.

The owner of the cottage, it would seem, was a big man also. It was hard not to notice that the outfit fitted Quinn’s broad-shouldered, long-legged frame extremely well if a little too snugly in the hip area. Rowena swallowed and brought her restless gaze back to his face.

‘You look better,’ he announced, after subjecting her pink-cheeked face to a cool-eyed scrutiny. ‘Did you sleep well?’ he added as his enigmatic eyes continued to scan her wary face as though he expected to see something written on the clear, creamy skin.

Like someone afraid to incriminate herself in an interrogation, Rowena kept her face blank. She nodded awkwardly after what she’d been imagining his opening comments might be, this innocuous enquiry was actually a relief. She just hoped he kept things simple and

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