Her Baby and Her Beau by Victoria Pade

Author:Victoria Pade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Push-ups. Pull-ups. Crunches. Weights.

Beau wasn’t counting the sets or the reps he was doing before dawn on Sunday morning. He was just in his basement gym, pushing himself through the most grueling workout his body would withstand.

Immy wasn’t awake yet and he’d had even less sleep than usual, this time because he was so disgusted with himself. And not knowing what else to do with that disgust—or the whole slew of other feelings that seemed to be holding him under siege—he’d come down to the gym to try to work it out of his system.

Discipline. He needed discipline. He was a marine and marines were disciplined. When they knew better than to do something, they didn’t do it.

And he knew better than to go around kissing Kyla.

But he had anyway.

Friday night there was that stupid kiss on the forehead that was supposed to look like nothing but comfort and support—but who was he trying to fool? He’d just needed to touch her. To get closer to her. To kiss her. Landing it on her forehead rather than her mouth was as far as discipline had gotten him that night.

And last night?

Last night was even worse—he’d kissed her on the mouth. Twice. And it was still nothing compared to what he’d wanted. But he just kept giving in to the damn weakness he had for her—that was the problem.

And God help him, he had a weakness for her...

She was on his mind every minute and not only because he was taking care of her—he wasn’t merely thinking about whether or not she was overdoing it, or when she should rest, or if she seemed to be on the mend and how to help get her there.

No, he was thinking about the way her hair shone like silk.

He was thinking about her dark amber eyes with their streaks of honey gold.

He was thinking about how small and cute her nose was.

He was thinking about how downy her skin looked and aching to brush the side of her beautiful face with the backs of his fingers.

He was thinking about how much he liked the sound of her voice, of her laugh. About the way she looked when she smiled and flashed those damn dimples.

He was thinking about the view he got when she walked out of a room—of that perfect, tight rump.

He was thinking about keeping his eyes from drifting down to her chest. And how much he wanted to get his hands on it.

And yes, he was thinking about her mouth, her lips. How he hadn’t been able to get enough of kissing her that summer. How much he wanted to kiss her now...

As if he were still a hormonal kid who didn’t have years of training and conditioning and discipline to teach him how to control himself.

Get a grip! he mentally shouted as he picked up heavier dumbbells to do more biceps curls.

This was no time to get involved in any relationship. He had to find his way in this new chapter—this new volume—of his life before he could let anything like that happen.

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