One Night Wife (Confidence Game) by Ainslie Paton

Author:Ainslie Paton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Amara, The Confidence Game, Bait and Switch, Fake Relationship, Forbidden Love, Mistaken Identity, Opposites Attract, Redemption, Unrequited Love, romance, contemporary, Robin Hood, con man, millionaire, Cinderella, rags-to-riches, forbidden love, bad boy reformed, fling, friends to lovers, revenge, ugly duckling, charity, charitable cause, social justice
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Amara)
Published: 2018-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Fin woke once during the night to find Cal still wrapped around her. She wasn’t chilled anymore. She was so comfortable she didn’t want to move, except the heaviness in her gut told her she needed the bathroom. She shimmied out of his hold, trying not to wake him.

And failed.

“Are you okay?” He opened one eye and looked at her. His voice was husky. There was a filter of early yellow light in the room, enough to see he was gorgeously tousled. Enough to make her feel pain totally unrelated to cramps. She’d only gotten him into bed because he felt sorry for her.

“Fine.” She stumbled to the bathroom, expecting he’d be asleep when she got back, but he was waiting.

He flipped back the covers and rolled to his back, laying one muscled arm out alongside the pillows and patting his chest. He’d called her my darling and baby last night and done everything possible to make her feel better. To make her feel cared for. Above and beyond, and now he was inviting her to a paradise of snuggle and she really shouldn’t. Especially if he was going to be back to brisk and business-like when the morning proper came. It would feel like whiplash again, and she might not be strong enough emotionally to take that right now.

He tapped his chest again. “Don’t think you’re going to get lucky.”

Cal Sherwood could break a girl’s heart. He’d broken Rory’s. Fin was standing here wearing Rory’s pjs, wondering if Cal would break hers, too. She’d tried to put D4D above her feelings for him; it was the smart thing to do.

“Fin, get in the bed.”

She got in the bed but kept to her side.

“Get over here, right now.”

“Do you have pain?” Because that was the only excuse she had to be in his arms this time around. It was smart not to feel for Cal, but it was also denying herself the sustenance she needed to live.

“Yes, it’s terrible. I’m shivering, and I need comfort.” He said that without a trace of a shiver and his eyes closed.

“You’re such a damn liar.”

He opened the one eye closest to her. “You and I pretend all the time. Get over here and pretend.”

She was weak. Emotionally fragile. She slid over the cooled sheets and put her head on his shoulder. She didn’t know what to do with her arm. She was a plank, and this wasn’t comfortable. But if she got comfortable it might mess her up forever.

“The way this works is you put your arm over my chest and you hitch your leg over my thigh.” He reached over and prodded her hip; her leg complied all on its own as if he’d tapped some reflex.

Her resistance died. She draped her arm over him. “You’re so bossy.”

“Go to sleep.”

“See.”

He nudged the top of her head with his chin. At least, that’s what she thought he did. It was conceivable that it was his lips not his chin, because she knew how this sleeping position worked.

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