More Than Cookies (The Maple Leaf Series) by Christine DePetrillo

Author:Christine DePetrillo
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2014-08-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Sage sat on the couch in Orion’s house listening to the clock on the mantle tick-tock, tick-tock. It’d been thirty minutes since Orion had left. She had the baby monitor on the end table, afraid to turn on the television and not be able to hear Ian should he need something.

Please stay asleep, Ian. Please.

She’d had good experiences with the man so far, but what would his reaction be if he awoke to find her and no Orion. She was basically still a stranger to him, though she did have the known-you-for-years feeling about the guy. Maybe they’d known each other in another life. She thought about calling Hope, Rick, Lily, or her mother to come over and stay with her, but she decided to pull up her big girl panties and stick it out on her own. She didn’t want to explain how close she was getting to Orion or how fast she was falling for him.

So she wished and wished hard for Ian to stay asleep.

She had another wish too. One that involved finishing a sexual encounter with Orion. Good God. They’d been interrupted twice and both times had left her desperate for his touch. The man had nine and a half magic fingers, magic lips, magic… well, she didn’t exactly know if his penis was magic, but she had the distinct impression that it would be. A naked Orion was a sight to behold. One she wanted to behold again. More than behold actually.

Would she get the chance? She decided right then and there that she’d make sure she got the chance. She was done dating the wrong guys. She deserved a guy like Orion.

Not able to sit still anymore, she got off the couch and wandered over to a wall of framed photographs. Most of them had Myah posing for the camera. Sage had never seen a more beautiful child. She had a dazzling smile and a cherub of a face with those big blue eyes. That untamed crop of black hair gave her a wild and carefree look, but from what Sage had seen at the hospital, the girl had manners along with a world of hurt behind those eyes.

One picture showed Myah on a swing. She was laughing, her mouth open, her hair flying behind her, one pink sneaker in mid-flight off her foot. She had on flowered tights and a denim dress, and Sage could tell from the way Myah looked at the camera that Orion was the one taking the picture. That was a look meant for Daddy and only Daddy.

Another picture had Myah and a beautiful dog running in snow. Myah was dressed head to toe in a pink snowsuit complete with a knitted hat topped with a fluffy pom-pom. Both girl and dog were running away from the camera, snow flurrying up behind them as they ran. Somehow the photo had motion.

“Not your average chainsaw artist, are ya, Orion?” Sage whispered as she looked at a third photo. A black-and-white.

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