Potions And Proposals : An Arranged Marriage Paranormal Romance (Village of Foxford Book 1) by Kate Callaghan

Author:Kate Callaghan [Callaghan, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CallaghanWriter
Published: 2024-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

A second later, the sound of running water made her heart leap. My element! Maybe the potion worked after all!

Lucy opened her eyes.

She was in a bathroom.

Black tiles surrounded her, and two gold-plated sinks with ornate mirrors reflected her blotchy cheeks. Worse, she wasn’t alone. Only a few feet away from her, Benedict Matherson lay in a large bathtub, covered in bubbles, eyes closed and dark hair slicked back away from his face. There was a pile of muddy clothes at Lucy’s feet, but she was too distracted by the sight of his naked shoulders to wonder what he’d been up to.

As though he sensed her presence, his eyes snapped open.

“How the hell did you get in here?” he shrieked in a rather unmanly manner.

Water and bubbles sloshed over the edge of the tub. Lucy lifted her feet out of the way.

“I don’t know!” She panicked, unsure of where to look. “I didn’t come here on purpose. I had this awful feeling, like I was burning alive. Then I was here… in your bathroom.” She stared at him, unsure if he was real. “I’m sorry. I don’t want to be here as much as you don’t want me seeing—” She cut herself off.

Scrubbing his hands over his face, Benedict sat up, revealing smooth, wet skin. Droplets trickled down his abs. Clearly all that running worked well for him. Lucy tried not to look at what was lurking below the diminishing bubbles. Suddenly there wasn’t enough air for both of them. Her heart hammered as he grabbed a towel from the rack beside her.

“Can you please leave, or at least turn around?” he asked, raising a sharp eyebrow. Her eyes were immediately drawn to the tension in his hands and forearms as he started to pull himself up, and her heart did a weird flip. Promising herself it was just the heat of the room and not anything to do with Benedict, Lucy hurried out the door before he caught her lingering gaze.

She hovered at the end of his bed, chewing on her nail. She wanted to apologise again for invading his privacy, but she still didn’t understand how she had ended up in his bathroom in the first place.

The door swung open, and she turned to give him some privacy. She heard him walking around the room, but he didn’t say anything. When she peeked through her fingers, her gaze trailed down his toned back, one side covered with a long spiralling tattoo of ivy that dipped below the black towel. She chewed her lip to stop herself from smiling. Of course his towels were black.

Benedict cleared his throat. “I’m decent; you can look now. I take it you’re here to talk about trying another spell or potion?”

“We can try the curse-stripping potion. It’ll just take me a while to order some of the ingredients from Myrtle’s,” Lucy said quickly. The ingredients were far more complicated than what was usually stocked in town.

“If we don’t figure out something between now and then, we can give it a go,” he agreed mildly.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.