Needed: One Convenient Husband by Fiona Brand

Author:Fiona Brand
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Kyle woke, uncertain what, exactly, had pulled him from yet another restless sleep. Tossing his rumpled sheets aside, he paced to the window. Opening the curtains, he looked out over the now-smooth sweep of lawn to the bay and a delicate and beautiful sunrise.

His wedding day.

Memories cascaded. Another wedding day, clear and hot and filled with family and friends. Nicola, elegant in white. She had been sweet and smart, athletic and funny. Perfect. She had fitted seamlessly into the measured pattern of his life, and when Evan had arrived, that pattern had seemed complete. Until...Germany.

His stomach tightened. Now, a marriage of convenience.

Feeling tense and unsettled, he walked through to the bathroom and flicked on the shower. The problem was, every time he looked at Eva, convenience was the last thing on his mind and the guilt that he wanted her more than he had wanted Nicola, was killing him.

Unbidden, the hours they’d spent locked together in his bed replayed, along with the uncomfortable knowledge that there had been nothing measured about his response.

And that what he had felt had somehow sneaked up on him, eclipsing the past.

His head came up at the curious clarity of the thought. Peripherally, he was aware of the sound of the shower, steam misting the bathroom mirror, the steady beat of his own heart.

He drew a breath, then another, but the tightness in his chest didn’t ease. It was an odd moment to notice that Eva had done something with the bathroom. There was a new mat on the floor in a soft shade of turquoise, and brand-new thick, white towels decorated the towel rail. A large glass jar filled with soaps decorated the bathroom vanity.

The feminine, homey touches should have reminded him of Nicola, but they didn’t. Somehow, they were one hundred percent, in-your-face Eva.

Moving like an automaton, he stepped beneath the stream of hot water. He considered the moment of self knowledge that had hit him like a bolt from the blue, the guilt of wanting Eva, and that what he felt was different than anything else he had ever experienced.

It occurred to him that in the years since Nicola and Evan had died, he had done his level best to lock the past away but, in doing so, he had also failed to let it go.

And in that moment he finally understood what he needed to do.

* * *

Eva stepped out on the landing just as the front door closed with a soft click.

Frowning, she walked down the stairs and glanced through the kitchen windows just in time to see Kyle dressed in jeans and a T-shirt disappear into the garage. It was possible that he had things to do in town before the wedding, but as it was barely six o’clock, nothing would be open for hours. Dressed so casually, there was no way Kyle was going into work, either.

Feeling unsettled, not least because after the incandescent moments in Kyle’s apartment, she had half expected him to follow up with a suggestion that they break the rules and sleep together, and he hadn’t.

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