Passionately Ever After by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

GRACIE DREW THE soft blanket closer and blinked sleepily at the beam of light streaming through the small gap in the curtains. She didn’t want it to be morning. She didn’t want to go to work. She didn’t…know where the heck she was!

She jerked upright, staring in amazement at the beautiful furnishings. She was in that massive bedroom in the Villa Rosetta. Mortifying memories slammed into her mind, eviscerating the last of her blissful sleep fog—the crazy hose, that designer dress, that exquisite kiss.

Her pulse fired like a sprinter false-starting from the blocks.

Okay, she was better off not remembering the kiss. Her skin burned and she threw back the blanket covering her. She huffed a relieved sigh when she saw she was still wearing the white dress.

She frowned. The last thing she could recall was getting into Rafael’s car to leave the party. How could she not remember anything more? She’d had only the one glass of champagne. Wild imagination took flight—had her drink been spiked?

She mentally put herself through a physical. She had no abnormal aches or tenderness anywhere. No horrible headache or yucky taste in her mouth. No certain intuition or fear… Only embarrassment.

Yes. The embarrassing truth was she’d been working insanely long hours and yesterday she’d had too little food and just enough champagne to cause a temporary case of narcolepsy. Mortifying.

She glanced across the large room and saw her blouse, skirt and underwear on the plush chair where she’d left them last night, only now her phone was with them. Rafael must’ve put it there for her. So he definitely knew she hadn’t been wearing underwear with this dress.

The cool air from the ceiling fan did nothing to stop the last of her pride smouldering into cinders. He’d put her to bed because she’d fallen asleep on the drive home and apparently he hadn’t been able to wake her. She’d probably been snoring. Or drooling. Or both. She slumped back on the bed, hauling the blanket up like a shroud, willing immediate death.

Her heart denied her, not only refusing to stop but actually sprinting faster, while her equally fickle mind circled back to the highlight of the night.

Not the fireworks. That kiss.

She closed her eyes, toes curling as the merest whisper of memory sent sensations cascading through her. She sighed and resolutely opened her eyes again. This reaction was over the top. It wasn’t like she’d never kissed a guy before. In fact, she’d kissed four—though they’d all turned out to be frogs, no fairy-tale charming princes. It had been a bit like kissing frogs too—cold and slimy—and she’d not been tempted to go further with any of them.

But with Rafael? He was definitely no fairy-tale for ever prince, but what did that matter when with that one kiss he’d obliterated all her preconceived ideas of intimacy? Everything she’d thought—that she needed to be in love, that she needed to truly know and trust a guy before she’d be able to experience real pleasure in intimacy—wasn’t true.

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