Nighthawk's Child by Linda Turner

Author:Linda Turner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Seven

“The honeymoon—” Breaking off abruptly, Gavin swore under his breath and didn’t dare look at Summer. “That’s all you have?”

“Yes, sir, I’m afraid so. If you’d like to reserve it, I can bring you a registration card and you can do it here at your table.”

He wanted to tell the waiter there was no way in hell he was taking that room, but unless they wanted to spend the night in the car and freeze to death, they were stuck. But the honeymoon suite, for God’s sake! Even a broom closet would have been better than that!

Beggars, however, couldn’t be choosers, and with a muttered curse, he arched a dark brow at Summer. “Is that all right with you?”

Summer would have loved to have been sophisticated enough to shrug and act as if she couldn’t have cared less, but she’d never spent a night in a hotel with a man in her life. Just the thought of sharing the honeymoon suite with him sent heat climbing into her cheeks, but what other choice did they have?

Her heart pounding like a drum in her breast, she forced a smile for the waiter’s sake and nodded. “I’m sure it’ll be fine.”

Pleased, the waiter took the credit card Gavin held out to him and said, “Then I’ll take care of that for you right now.”

He hurried away to the hotel registration desk, leaving behind a silence between Summer and Gavin that was as thick as the snow blowing outside the windows. The easy, relaxed mood they’d enjoyed before the interruption was now shattered, and there didn’t seem to be anything they could do to get it back.

Her appetite nonexistent, Summer pushed her food around on her plate in a pretense of eating, but she only had to glance up to catch Gavin’s eye to know that she wasn’t fooling anyone, least of all him. With a grimace, she set down her fork. “I guess I shouldn’t have ordered all this, after all. I seem to have lost my appetite.”

“We’ll ask for a doggie bag and take it with us to the room. You might get hungry later tonight and want your dessert.”

When she was sharing the honeymoon suite with him? Her throat closed tight just at the thought. “Maybe,” she said huskily. “But I don’t think so.”

The waiter returned then with the registration card for the room, and by unspoken agreement, that automatically signaled the end of the meal. What they hadn’t eaten was packaged up for them, the bill and tip were paid, and before either of them was ready for it, they were headed for the honeymoon suite.

All but dragging her feet as she followed Gavin, Summer tried to convince herself it wouldn’t be that bad. After all, it was just a room and couldn’t be that different from the one the two of them had been sharing for the past week. They were already sleeping in the same bed and being quite civilized about it. So what was the big deal? All she had to do was act the way she usually did, and everything would work out just fine.

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