Masquerade: Lovers Unmasked: Book 1 by Flockton Nicole

Author:Flockton, Nicole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

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She couldn’t deny it. It was true. To be so close to him and not be able to touch him was going to be the hardest thing she ever had to do.

“Yes.” She placed her hand over his, pressed quickly, then wrapped her fingers around his and pulled it away from her cheek. Coolness replaced the warmth his hand had generated. “Shall we go?”

He enfolded her arm into his bent one. “Your carriage awaits you, Cinderella.”

She had to laugh at the reference to Cinderella once again. It was as if he’d had some prior knowledge to her and Phoebe’s joking around from earlier in the day.

“What’s so funny?” he asked as they took the downward journey.

“Phoebe was joking around earlier and calling me Cinderella. Now you are. Believe me when I say I’m far from being hounded by ugly step sisters and needing a fairy godmother to rescue me.”

“We all need someone to rescue us at one time or another.”

They reached a late model Mercedes and she waited while Alex opened the door for her. The smell of a new car assaulted her senses. It was as if Alex was starting afresh with everything in his life. New job. New car. New house. New woman? It was then she realized she knew absolutely nothing about him and she wondered whether she was going to be the new woman.

“Starting over are you, Alex?”

He didn’t say anything as he concentrated on maneuvering out of the car park and then merging with the early evening traffic.

“Why do you ask?” he replied.

“Well, you’ve started a new job and you have a new car as well as a new apartment. It looks like you’re starting over.” She was transported back to the conversation in their office the first day he’d walked into the emergency department. “Is your divorce recent? Is that why everything is new?”

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