Marriage On The Rebound (HQR Presents) by Michelle Reid

Author:Michelle Reid [Reid, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
Published: 2019-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THREE days later, showered, hair pulled into a simple ponytail, and wearing a plain white sleeveless sundress, Shaan was sitting at the dining table nibbling at the last slice of toast while she waited for Rafe to shower and get dressed himself.

Breakfast, Rafe called it. Sustenance more like, she thought, and grimaced as she swallowed. Making love gave you an appetite—She felt her cheeks grow hot as she sat there hardly able to believe the person she had become.

Or been turned into, she corrected that thought bemusedly. They had hardly moved out of these rooms for the last three days and nights. The man, she had discovered, was virtually insatiable—and if anyone had told her that a shy, almost reticent young-for-her-age twenty-two-year-old could become a slave to her own body pleasures so quickly, she would have scoffed them out of the room!

‘Now look at yourself,’ she murmured, and had to stand up as that now familiar restlessness began attacking her insides again.

You can still feel him deep inside you, she admitted shamefully, going to gaze sightlessly out across the glittering waters towards the Kowloon skyline.

And it feels wonderful. Warm and heady. Your breasts are still alive with the pleasure of his touch, the nipples pulsing a delicate plea for his mouth to close around them.

In fact, if he came in here right now and said, ‘Let’s do it again’, you’d be ripping your clothes off!

And Piers? she thought suddenly. What has happened to your feelings for Piers within all this new self-awareness?

Gone, she realised with a shock that filled her with a new sense of horror. She could barely manage to conjure up Piers’ face now, never mind that deep well of love she’d used to experience every time she thought of him.

So, what did that make her? she then wondered bleakly. Fickle?

Or just a very vulnerable woman on the rebound from a broken heart and desperately grasping at the first bit of feeling somebody tossed her way?

It was not a question. She refused to make it a question because if she did she would have to answer it. And she didn’t think she would like the answer any better than the thought.

Because she had an uncomfortable suspicion that ‘fickle’ would win over ‘rebound’.

And that love was something she really knew nothing about. Because if she had to describe the emotion then she would have to now call it—Rafe.

As if on cue, his hands slid around her slender waist and closed across the flat of her stomach. ‘What have you seen that’s so fascinating out there?’ he enquired lazily.

She blinked herself quickly back into focus. ‘A sampan—look.’ She pointed with a finger towards the boat making its slow way through the water. ‘For the first time I feel as if I’m near China.’

‘It’s a junk,’ he corrected humorously. ‘And Hong Kong belongs to China now, in case you’ve missed the world news for the last five years while Britain wrangled with them over their takeover.’

‘That’s right.’ She sighed censoriously, lifting her mood to match his.

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