Her Best Friend's Lover by Shiloh Walker

Author:Shiloh Walker [Walker, Shiloh]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Erotic, Romance
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc
Published: 2003-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The morning after. Awkward?

You don’t know the half of it, buddy, Dale said silently to whomever had coined the phrase. Awkward didn’t quite describe how he felt at six thirty two in the morning, crouched around Lauren’s heaving body as she wretched over the toilet. He kept his forearm locked around her waist, the other hand holding her hair back from her face. Her hands were wrapped around his arm, clutching it to her chest, short neat nails biting into his skin with every spasm.

He had been awakened violently when she had shoved out of the bed some twenty minutes earlier. The dry heaves had been wracking her ever since. Tears and sweat soaked her face, and beneath his hands, her body trembled violently.

Five more minutes, he swore. If she doesn’t stop in five minutes, I’m calling that damn doctor.

Four months pregnant, for crying out loud. The morning sickness had stopped weeks ago, hadn’t it? Smoothing a gentle hand over her sweaty hair, he closed his eyes in sympathy, and a little pain, as her nails bit into his forearm when another spasm hit her, this one was longer in duration, stronger.

And final.

The five minutes was up and Dale was wiping a damp cold cloth over her flushed face. Her eyes closed, cheeks pale under the flush, soft wide mouth still trembling. “Are you okay now?” he asked quietly, using the cloth on her neck.

“I- I think so,” she whispered, letting her head fall back to rest against his shoulder. “Sorry.” Her voice, slightly stronger now, was prim and polite and quite lady like.

“Not a problem,” he replied, amused at both of them. They had spent more time engaged in bedtime sports than in sleep. Instead of sleeping late and waking to a leisurely bout of morning sex and breakfast, they were up at the crack of dawn while she lost what little was left in her belly after a rather busy night.

Resting his cheek on her head, he rocked her back and forth, perched rather precariously on the edge of the deep bathtub. Once the tremors had passed, he raised his head and brushed her tangled hair back from her face. Studying her, he realized this was the first time he had seen her this defenseless. Even when she’d caught the flu a winter or so back, she had looked better than most women could look on their best days. Granted, he hadn’t seen her the first two days when she had practically camped on the bathroom floor.

“Is there anything I can get you to help?”

“Crackers,” she said, eyes closing again as weariness settled in.

Five minutes later, he had her back in bed, seated behind her, propping her weary body against his while she munched on a saltine. “I thought you were past this stage,” he said, finger combing the tangles from her ebony hair.

With a wry grimace, Lauren responded, “So did I. That doctor is fired.”

A smile tugging at his mouth, Dale told her, “I don’t think she’s to blame for this.

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