Miracles On the Land--3 Book Box Set by Fiona McArthur

Author:Fiona McArthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘WHAT makes you think I’ve ever done anything radical?’ Scott stared pensively into his wine and Bella glanced across at him with a frown.

‘Everyone has done something mad at least once in their life.’ She smiled encouragingly and then her smile faltered. ‘Tell me you have.’ There was a long pause and she stifled the disappointment that accompanied the worry Scott might never have done anything remotely mad.

‘You mean, apart from running off with a woman fifteen years my senior and being left soon after?’ Scott watched Bella blink and for the life of him he couldn’t think of anything radical he’d done since alienating Bella all those years ago. Suddenly he remembered the family planning seminar he’d been to last week. The company reps had been giving out freebies and he’d stuck a couple of condoms in his wallet to give to Rohan, along with a crack about spacing babies. ‘But I don’t want to talk about that radical mistake. How about something radical I have with me?’ Maybe he could make her laugh.

She relaxed her shoulders as he teased her. ‘But I’m not sure I want to tell you and I don’t want you to get any ideas.’

Bella bristled again and he suppressed his amusement. Here with Bella, tonight, offered a precious hour of joy from nowhere, and he was savouring it.

Bella glared at him. The man was laughing at her. ‘You’re just saying that to whet my appetite.’ His slow smile warmed that fluttery feeling back into her stomach. She took a gulp of her drink and thanked her stars that the wine wasn’t potent. ‘So? Give!’

He smiled again and shifted along the tarp to be closer to her. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet.

Bella frowned. ‘What are you doing?’

‘I’m showing you something mad that I’ve got.’

His hands flicked open his wallet with painful slowness and slid his fingers into the back section to pull out a small package. He placed the packet in the palm of his hand. ‘That’s it.’

Bella peered at his hand. ‘What?’

‘It’s a glow-in-the-dark condom.’

There was something so bizarrely out of character about Scott and his possession of a glow-in-the-dark condom that it made Bella shut her eyes and bite her lip. Serious, conservative and dignified Dr Rainford, luminescent with lust. An ordinary, flesh-coloured, non-ribbed condom discreet in his wallet perhaps, but glow-in-the-dark?

A bubble of laughter slid its way up her throat and she tried to hold it back, but the amusement escaped in a deep-throated giggle. That chuckle was followed by several more hiccups of mirth, and before she knew it Bella was rolling around on the tarpaulin, holding her stomach. Scott watched her with pretended offence until she could control herself. She lay on her back and gasped for air, holding her aching diaphragm.

Finally she managed, ‘What a Boy Scout.’ And wiped the tears from her eyes.

‘I can see you’re impressed. In fact, I’ve got two. I’ll give you one to keep. Now, tell me about something you’ve done.

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