How To Mend A Broken Heart by Amy Andrews

Author:Amy Andrews
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-28T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

TESS lay awake long after Fletch had left, staring into the darkness. He didn’t come back to bed and she knew in her bones he wouldn’t. She fell asleep as dawn was breaking across a velvet sky and didn’t wake until the sun was high.

Even then she couldn’t move. She just lay on her side and watched a vapour trail leave a white streak across the slice of sky she could see through the bedroom’s large windows, her thoughts full of Fletch.

And their kiss.

It was time to admit to herself that living in such close quarters with him had loosened the lid on feelings she’d thought long suppressed.

She was attracted to Fletch.

It was simply undeniable. It had been there from the first moment she’d spotted him at the cemetery. Fletch had improved with age and there was a sexiness to his maturity that pulled at her in places entirely different from those the first time around.

And to someone who hadn’t felt attraction or desire in such a long time, who’d actually shunned it, it wasn’t an easy admission.

It was made worse by the answering flicker she’d seen in him. From the moment he’d looked at her bare thighs that first night to the way she’d caught him looking at her in unguarded moments, it was obvious he felt it too.

It had been wrong of her, stupid actually, to think they could just pick up where they’d left off—two human beings going through the motions, shells of what they’d once been—with this attraction raging between them.

But she hadn’t meant to use him.

It had just been so good to forget for a while after Jean’s unintended stirring-up of their past.

Her stomach muscles tightened as the kiss played in her head again and for a fleeting moment Tess regretted pushing him away last night. Maybe she should have just got lost in him, like she used to. Let him and the magic she knew their bodies could make obliterate everything.

The time between going to bed and falling asleep was always the hardest—last night particularly—and he could have helped

with that.

But she just…couldn’t.

She’d known she was getting herself into dangerous emotional waters, a torrent she’d barely survived the last time, and she just hadn’t been able to let go.

Her life was too regimented for that.

She’d tried to live her life simply and on a level emotional plane ever since they’d separated. She’d moved far away and started anew. She lived modestly, kept friendships light, actively discouraged men. She worked and she slept and in between times she kept herself busy in her garden or doing online research for the local historical society.

She didn’t even have a pet.

Jumping head first into a sexual liaison with Fletch as a way to keep the memories at bay during her stint in his apartment was a huge leap and one that was pure folly. Pretending they were happily married for Jean’s sake was enough of a lie without throwing sex into the mix.

Because even she knew with their history and this latent attraction, it could never be that simple.

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