Pregnant Innocent Behind The Veil (Mills & Boon Modern) (Scandalous Royal Weddings, Book 2) by Michelle Smart

Author:Michelle Smart [Smart, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2022-08-31T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

ALESSIA’S MOUTH SHOUTED the word and wrenched away from him before her brain caught up.

Her heart thumping madly, her skin and loins practically screaming their outrage at the severing of such dazzling pleasure, she disentangled herself from his arms and scrambled backwards out of reach.

Stunned eyes followed her movements, Gabriel’s breaths coming in short, ragged bursts. ‘What’s wrong?’ he asked hoarsely.

Trying hard to control her own breathing, trying even harder to control the wails of disappointment from her body, Alessia shakily shook her head. ‘I can’t do this. I’m sorry, but I can’t. It’s too soon.’

He stared at her in disbelief. ‘What are you talking about? How can you say it’s too soon when we’ve just got married?’

‘It just is!’ she cried, before her lips clamped together and she crossed her arms to hold her biceps, gripping them tightly as protection, not from him but from herself because like the rest of her furious body, her hands were howling to clasp themselves to his cheeks so her equally furious lips could attach themselves back to his mouth, and the whole of her could revel again in the heady delights of Gabriel. Her pelvis felt like it was on fire. Her blood burned. Everything burned.

His face contorted and he cursed under his breath before his chest rose as he inhaled deeply, visibly composing himself. ‘You have to talk to me,’ he said. She could take little comfort that the smoothly controlled voice had a ragged tone to it. ‘Tell me what’s on your mind. I’m trying to make sense of what you mean about it being too soon when we already know how good we are together. The night we made our child is proof of that.’

‘And you walked out the next day without a word of goodbye or even a note,’ she retorted tremulously, because it was remembering that little fact that had snapped her out of the sensual haze she’d been caught in.

This time his curse was more audible, and he closed his eyes.

‘Are you not going to say anything?’ she asked in an attempt to mimic the curt tone he’d used on her earlier, but the upset in her voice was just too strong for it to be successful.

Nausea churned heavily in Gabriel’s guts. He’d apologised for not returning her call but the fact of him leaving her sleeping while he slipped out of the room had been left unsaid. He should have known this conversation would one day come.

Arousal still coursed like fire through his loins and veins, and he closed his eyes again and concentrated on tempering it. Then he locked his stare back on her. ‘I left without saying goodbye because when I woke next to you, I felt like the biggest jerk in the world.’

Her chin wobbled but she didn’t look away. ‘Why?’

‘Because your family were generous enough to give me a bed for the night when my plane was grounded and I repaid that generosity by sleeping with their daughter.’

‘I’m a twenty-three-year-old woman.

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