Midwife's Mistletoe Baby by Fiona McArthur

Author:Fiona McArthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Resting after lunch

MAEVE HAD GOT as far as slipping her shoes off, she’d been stupid, telling him to follow her, and she’d better learn from her mistakes pretty damn quick if she didn’t want to drive him away.

She stewed on that thought for a minute until she heard Rayne’s quiet footsteps coming down the hall and she didn’t know whether to sit on the bed, stand at the window, looking decorative, or just freeze where she was looking at the closed door like a rabbit in headlights.

Time took care of that because Rayne knocked, paused and then opened the door and put his head around. She didn’t get time to do anything except feel her heart thumping like a bass drum.

It was the Rayne from nine months ago. Black brows slightly raised, eyes dark and dangerous, a tiny amused tilt to those wicked lips. ‘Louisa said you needed a hand to get your feet up?’

She licked dry lips. ‘You can come in.’ But when he did push open the door and shut it again the room shrank to the size of a shoebox and they were two very close-together shoes. ‘Um. I am a bit tired.’

He glanced at the queen-sized bed then back at her. Looked her over thoroughly. ‘Want a hand getting your dress off?’

‘Thanks.’ She turned her back and once he’d worked out there was no zip and she only wanted him to help her lift it over her head, the task was accomplished in no time.

No real seduction in that swift removal. She tried not to sigh. While he was draping the dress carefully over the chair she was thinking as she sat on the bed, Thank goodness I changed my stretchy granny undies for the cute lace pair.

He seemed to be staring at her chest. ‘Nice cleavage.’ Well, at least he appreciated something.

He was so big and broad standing over her and she patted the quilt she was sitting on. She wished he’d take off his shirt. ‘Are you staying?’

‘Staying? As in coming to bed with you?’

‘You did say everyone lies down after Christmas lunch?’

He sat on the bed beside her. Then he turned his head and looked her full in the face. ‘I’m not going to have sex with you but I’m happy to lie beside you while you rest.’

She pulled a face at him. Her own desire to snuggle up to him was withering like a dehydrating leaf. ‘I wouldn’t want to force you to do anything you didn’t want to.’

He grinned at her but there was a definite flare in his dark eyes that left her in no doubt she was wrong. A flare that made all the saggy disappointment feelings sit up and take notice again. ‘It’s not that I don’t want to get closer.’ He was telling the truth and at least that made her feel a little bit better. ‘But I think we need to talk a whole lot more before we fall into...’ he hesitated, didn’t even offer a word for what they were both thinking about ‘.

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