Moonlight over Manhattan by Sarah Morgan

Author:Sarah Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Ltd.
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

ETHAN WOKE COUGHING several times in the night and each time Harriet helped him to sit up, forced him to drink fluids and did what she could to bring down the fever. She’d never seen anyone so ill. Despite Susan’s reassurances, she didn’t like leaving him on his own for long.

She tried sleeping on top of her bed with her door open so that she’d hear him if he called for her, but then she found she was listening out for him all the time and wondering if he was still breathing, so she gave up on that and made herself comfortable in the deep armchair in the corner of his room.

It was almost as comfortable as her bed, and she slept in fitful bouts, her mind hovering between wakefulness and sleep, conscious of Ethan within arm’s reach. It felt strange, this intimacy between two people who barely knew each other.

It was a long night.

Every time he coughed she fetched him drinks and tried to help him sit up. When he slept, she tried to sleep.

Morning came, the weak winter sun spilling diffuse light through the window.

Ethan didn’t stir and Harriet leaned closer to check he was breathing before going downstairs to make breakfast.

After a night of almost no sleep, her head throbbed and she felt as if she’d been hit over the head with a hammer.

Madi was waiting for her, tail wagging.

Deciding that she had no choice but to leave Ethan while she took the dog for a walk, she scribbled a note and left it by his bedside along with his phone.

The moment she stepped outside the apartment the cold hit her, driving away the smothering fog of sleep.

She wrapped her scarf more tightly round her neck and huddled deeper into her coat.

The city was oddly silent, all sound muffled by a fresh layer of snow.

Worried about Ethan, she kept the walk as short as she felt was fair on Madi and when she returned to the apartment Ethan still hadn’t moved.

Harriet touched his forehead and decided he felt a little cooler.

That had to be a good thing, surely? As was the fact that he was finally sleeping.

The dark shadow on his jaw that had been no more than whisker grain the day before was more pronounced now, accentuating the pallor of his skin.

Halfway through the afternoon she was in the kitchen when she heard a crash from the bedroom.

She took the stairs two at a time and found Ethan clutching the end of the bed, eyeing the bathroom as if he were an explorer contemplating a long and dangerous sea voyage.

She took his arm and he leaned on her heavily, his legs almost buckling as he reached the bathroom door.

“I need to take a shower.”

“Are you sure it’s a good idea? You don’t seem exactly steady on your feet. If you do, don’t lock the door. I’ll wait right here.”

His blue gaze connected with hers. “You could join me. I could put my healing hands on you.

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