Not Just the Greek's Wife by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe [Monroe, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780263231601
Google: dnuH-3l_pqwC
Amazon: B008RW8DR0
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

ARISTON watched his ex-wife storm into the en suite with a sense of utter shock coursing through him.

She’d stopped taking the pill about the same time he’d discovered she’d been using it. What terrible timing.

She had intended to fulfill her part of their marriage contract—she’d just clearly had her own timeframe for doing so. As he was famous for telling his CEOs, a bit of communication would have helped.

And she was angry with him?

He shook his head, not for the first time, at the vagaries of the female psyche and his ex-wife’s in particular.

She could have been pregnant when she left. That infuriated him, but it also confused him. Why leave before she knew whether or not she was? Why stop taking birth control, thereby showing intention to make their marriage long-term only to end up leaving after all?

For the first time in his life, Ariston had absolutely no clue to the puzzle before him and he found that more than a bit frustrating.

Had she felt too young for motherhood? While she hadn’t said as much, Chloe had revealed a level of bitterness at her circumstances he would never have guessed at. Feelings she’d apparently needed to work through before being willing to have his baby.

One thing was certain, her coming off the pill—even in the eleventh hour of their marriage—blew his initial assessment of what she’d wanted out of their marriage all to hell.

Though he was a man who hated to be wrong, he found he didn’t mind in this instance.

And regardless of the past, soon she would be exactly where he wanted her, back in his bed on a permanent basis.

Unlike what Chloe had implied with her question about his lovers during their two years apart, he’d hardly had legions of sexual partners since she’d left Greece. The few he’d taken to bed since the divorce had only proven one thing to him. Once a supremely congenial lover was found, no one else measured up.

While he did not believe in romantic drivel like all-consuming love, he did believe in sexual compatibility. And he and Chloe had that in spades.

Against all of Ariston’s expectations, when he’d married the artsy, somewhat introverted and extremely innocent daughter of his business associate, Chloe had turned out to be the most amazing lover he’d ever had.

She didn’t play sexual power games, but gave him everything in her responses, holding nothing back. Her honest, awakening passions had become addictive in a way Ariston had neither expected nor been happy about once he learned of her subterfuge about the birth control.

But he had no intention of ever admitting it to anyone, and Chloe least of all—she’d been gone from his bed only two years, but that had been one year, eleven months and twenty-nine days too long.

He didn’t like feeling weak, and needing her sexually had done that to him.

Eventually, he’d realized that the problem wasn’t how much he’d enjoyed bedding his ex-wife, it was that he’d allowed the balance of power to shift in their relationship in a way he never would have done in any other business deal.

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