Hours to Cherish by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781480408319
Publisher: Open Road
Published: 2013-02-20T20:14:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

SHE WAS SLEEPING SO soundly, so comfortably, so very deeply. The blazing light that suddenly caused an instinctive tightening of her eyelids was at first nothing more than an annoyance. Then a sharp tap on her posterior startled her from that hazy cocoon of sleep and her eyes flew wide open.

The light, of course, was the sun, streaming through the now open porthole drape. Cat smiled ever so slightly. Had the sun ever streamed across the sky with such magnificence? Tossing her head and hiding her smile, Cat turned reproachful eyes to Clay, the deliverer of the awakening pat to her anatomy.

He sat beside her on the bed, a grin stretched softly in the firm yet sensuous line of his lips. “It’s morning,” he told her, shrugging innocence in reply to her reproach. He sobered suddenly, reaching for her hand. “And I want to talk to you. I was thinking—well, actually I was thinking that neither of us had been thinking last night. And I don’t think this is the time to add complications.”

“What are you talking about?” Cat murmured.

“The facts of life.” Clay grimaced.

“Oh.” Cat felt herself pinken slightly. “You needn’t worry about complications.”

“Oh?” She heard the growl in his voice and desperately wanted to avoid an argument in her drowsy state. She knew exactly what he was getting at, and she really wasn’t ready to admit the entire truth about her relationship—or lack of one—with Jules. But she didn’t want to fight, not after last night.

“I’ve taken pills since our marriage simply because I discovered they did a marvelous job of regulating my system,” she told him a bit huskily.

He didn’t reply, but his eyes told her the subject would be discussed again. Apparently he wasn’t ready to argue either. He watched her contemplatively for a moment, then smiled and issued a command. “Up!”

Cat groaned and attempted to burrow her face back into her pillow. With the threat of an explosion gone, she had begun to revel again in her feeling of drowsy contentment. “Clay …” she murmured, her indignant voice muffled by the pillow, “it was a late night. …”

“Noooo, no, my love!” Clay laughed, catching her shoulders and pulling her back forward. “This is a workday, kitten. And you’re on breakfast detail because I need to check and oil equipment.”

Cat allowed her heavy lids to close again. “Why don’t you just throw on a pot of coffee. …”

Clay laughed. “Because I’m starving. I had this terribly active night, you see, and the temporary appeasement of one appetite had a tremendous effect upon creating another.”

Cat opened her eyes once more to see a mischievous twinkle glimmering deep within her husband’s eyes. She flushed slightly and lowered her lashes until her eyes were narrowed slits of emerald, then stretched, pausing with caught breath as Clay leaned over to brush her lips with a gentle kiss. He moved back with a new, strange light in his eyes. Hands reaching tenderly for the luxurious masses of her tangled hair, he began to spread the tendrils in a sunburst fan over the pillow and bedding.

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