Mommy for Hire by Cathy Gillen Thacker

Author:Cathy Gillen Thacker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-08-14T22:00:00+00:00

ALEXIS WASN’T SURE how she did it—behaved as if her whole world was not crashing down around her. But somehow she got Grady dressed and out of there in record time.

When the door closed behind him, she went back to her rumpled bed. She had turned the window unit on high when she came home, and cool air was still blasting out of it. Shivering, she climbed beneath the covers and closed her eyes. The overwhelming guilt she expected, at having made the first real attempt to move on after her husband’s death, was nowhere to be found.

For the first time in a very long time, there was no sorrow. There wasn’t really even any loneliness. There was just the warmth of their bodies, still in the covers. The smell of Grady—that unique mixture of soap, man and aftershave lotion—mingled with the muskier scent of their love.

Thinking about the unabashed way they had pleasured each other filled her entire body with heat. She couldn’t believe they had gone at it like teenagers. That she had very nearly risked pregnancy and more, for a moment’s pleasure with a man she knew in her mind—if not her heart—was all wrong for her.

Instead, all she had been able to think was about the way he made her feel. So completely, wonderfully alive. So impatient for more. For the first time since she could remember, she was ready to get on with her life.

She wanted, she realized belatedly, to put an end to the long, lonely nights. She wanted someone to talk to. She wanted children. She wanted a real home, with a yard, and a backyard swing, instead of the cheapest apartment she could find.

She wanted Grady.

It was just too bad he wasn’t available. Not the way she needed him to be.

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