It's In His Kiss by Eve Devon

Author:Eve Devon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007558476
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Luke opened his front door and stared. ‘You’re wearing a dress.’

Sephy smiled up at him. ‘As always, your powers of deduction never cease to amuse me.’

‘You mean “amaze me”,’ he corrected, trying to stop himself from carrying out a second and way-too-obvious head-to-toe appraisal.

‘Do I?’ Sephy teased with an impish smile and then leant in as if to deliver a secret. ‘It’s called a tea dress,’ she whispered helpfully.

What it was, was lilac and floaty and so not what he was used to seeing her in that he found himself leaning forward, matching her body language and closing the inches further. ‘But we’re having brunch, not tea,’ he whispered back.

Sephy licked her lips. ‘Should I go home and change?’

‘No, of course not.’ God, but she looked even more beautiful than usual. The dress made her look softer, somehow, overriding that unconscious sexiness with a new sweetness that was magnetic. ‘You look perfect.’

Sephy smoothed the material over her hips. ‘I don’t look like I’m trying too hard?’

A female voice from behind him said, ‘And why on earth wouldn’t you want to try hard the first time you meet your future in-laws?’

Luke got a brief look at Sephy’s eyes widening with alarm before she breathed in, smiled her warmest smile and then she was peering around him and saying, ‘Hello, Mrs Jackson.’

‘Call me Lily,’ she was corrected. ‘Luke, let the girl in so we can meet properly, or are we all to eat in the doorway?’

Sephy stepped past him, her floral scent filling his lungs and reminding him of how she had looked in his bedroom, how she had felt in his arms. At night she now owned his dreams. During the day wasn’t much better. It had got so bad that he’d had to devote time to constructing a de-sensitisation room in his head to put those scorching-hot memories in.

‘I knew by the fifth time Luke mentioned your name that you were going to be special to him,’ Lily said, smiling at Sephy.

Luke watched his foster mother sweep Sephy up into a welcoming hug.

‘You did?’ Sephy turned huge questioning eyes to him.

‘Absolutely,’ Lily replied. ‘He never mentioned any other woman he was seeing more than twice and then, what totally gave it away was that he then went conspicuously quiet about you.’

Luke tensed because he remembered thinking that he’d been talking about Sephy too much and that he absolutely needed to make sure he stopped before they got the wrong idea. He’d deliberately switched to talking about work and unwittingly created his own situation.

Sephy skewered him with an assessing look. ‘He does have this way of not talking about things that are close to his heart.’

Luke tried to keep his smile in place as Lily looked at Sephy shrewdly as if she had passed some sort of test. So far so good, except he didn’t know whether to be more concerned about any further little tests his foster parents intended peppering brunch with, or Sephy’s public acknowledgment that he automatically shut down on a few subjects.

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