Hot Island Nights by Sarah Mayberry

Author:Sarah Mayberry
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

7

NATE WOKE TO FIND Elizabeth curled into his side again. Even as his cock rejoiced, his shoulders tensed.

He shouldn’t have invited her to stay for dinner last night. The sailing lesson was one thing, but he shouldn’t have cooked her dinner, then pulled her into the studio afterward and peeled off her clothes and laid his body over hers. Definitely he shouldn’t have wrapped his arms around her afterward and fallen asleep nuzzling her neck.

What he should have done was send her home and nipped this thing in the bud. She was a good person—a nice person. He didn’t want to hurt her. But it was inevitable if they kept seeing each other like this.

The problem was, he really liked her. The sex was fantastic, and she was smart and funny and she didn’t play games.

And he was a guy who could barely get through the night without nightmares. A guy who’d retreated to the far corner of his own life in an attempt to stop himself from going completely nuts—if it hadn’t happened already.

He had no business starting something with her that he couldn’t finish. He had nothing to offer beyond sex, and somehow, despite his best intentions, this thing between them was already moving past that.

So. It was time to pull the pin. She might hate him for it in the short term, but she’d thank him in the long run.

Having made his decision, he told himself to get out of bed and start putting distance between them. Instead, he smoothed his hand down her shoulder, savoring the cool silk of her hair against his fingers. Then he lowered his head and inhaled the warm smell of her skin—sweet, with just a hint of her citrusy perfume lingering.

There was no getting around it. He’d found more peace, more comfort in her arms the past few nights than he had for months. Ridiculous as it seemed after such a short time, he was going to miss her.

Get out of bed. Get out of bed. Get out of bed.

He knew the voice in his head was smart and rational, but he didn’t move. Instead, he waited another half hour until she woke, her eyes fluttering, a slight frown on her face. She smiled when she saw he was awake already, the warmth in her eyes making him hard and uneasy at the same time.

“Hello,” she said.

“Hi.”

She glanced down and noticed his hard-on.

“And good morning to you, too,” she said.

She smoothed a hand down his belly. He caught it just before she wrapped her fingers around his cock and forced himself to say what needed to be said.

“Listen. I have to leave the island for a few days,” he said.

She stilled and he knew that she understood the unspoken message behind his casual words.

She withdrew her hand. “Are you, um, heading off today?” she asked, her tone carefully light.

“This afternoon, most likely,” he lied.

She nodded. “Well. Have a good trip.”

“Yeah. Thanks. I will.”

It was a ludicrously stiff and formal conversation to be having while naked, lying side by side in bed.

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