His 24-Hour Wife (The Hawke Brothers 2) by Rachel Bailey

Author:Rachel Bailey [Bailey, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Adult, Wife, Temporary, Vegas, Marriage, Fling, Wedding, Work, Blackmailed, Co-worker, Threat, Sham, Marriage Of Convenience, Charade, Sagas, Brothers, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9780373734191
Google: pvYgCgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 25074400
Publisher: Harlequin Desire
Published: 2015-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Eight

By the time they left Liam’s house, Callie was restless with wanting Adam. After the photographer and Anna had left, they were just with Adam’s family, who all believed she and Adam were putting on an act for the camera. And, of course, they had been.

But then, to keep things simple, they’d pretended for his family not to be involved at all, which was also a lie.

The truth was in some messy place in between, and couldn’t really be explained to anyone, so they’d spent the afternoon acting more like business associates than two people who were desperate for a chance to be alone together.

Once in the car, they were silent, but the air vibrated with the tension of all the subterfuge.

At the first red light, Adam glanced over. The heat in his green eyes was unmistakable, making her skin flush. She swallowed. The light changed, and he accelerated, but no words had been exchanged.

At the next light, again he glanced over, and this time she reached and out laid a hand on his thigh. A tremor ran through his body.

“San Juan Capistrano back to LA is not a quick trip,” he said through a tight jaw. “We’re not going to make it if your hand continues on that path.”

“Are you suggesting we stop somewhere along the way?” The idea of Mr. Cool and Controlled being so overtaken by his passions fascinated her.

He grimaced. “I’d rather make it back to my place.”

Grinning, she retracted her hand. “Will that help?”

“It’s a start.” He blew out a breath. “But we should talk. Tell me about something that’s not dangerous.”

Something not dangerous? The only topics she could dredge up were all dangerous. She tucked her hair behind her ears and tried again. “What do you want to know?”

“How about when you were growing up? I know the basic details, but tell me what it was like.”

She settled back into her seat and thought over her childhood. Then she began to talk. She told him about the school swimming meet where she’d come third in the two-hundred-meter freestyle event, and the year she and Summer had dressed up as dalmatians at Halloween. About the time she’d gotten so addicted to solitaire that she fell behind on her schoolwork, and when her family had traveled to New Mexico for summer break.

Adam asked questions and laughed in the right places, and some of the tension in the car relaxed. It was nice spending time with just him, where they weren’t pretending to either be in love or not involved at all. Just being.

However, when they pulled in to his garage and stepped out of the car, the mood changed. Or rather, it adjusted. For the most part, they’d been ignoring the simmering heat between them on the drive home, but now that they’d arrived...

He took her hand as they walked through the front door and an electric tingle raced from her fingers up her arm to her spine. She’d been waiting for this moment all day.

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