Reawakening Eden by Vivi Andrews

Author:Vivi Andrews [Andrews, Vivi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781609286378
Amazon: B005IHLJXC
Goodreads: 12383850
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Eden lay in the darkness, listening to the beat of Connor’s heart beneath her ear. She couldn’t stop thinking about the last three days.

It had snowed constantly for the first two, so much so the kids had actually gotten tired of snow forts and snowball fights. Connor didn’t have a stock of toys lying around, but they’d played Crazy Eights, Go Fish and Hide-and-Seek all afternoon. Eden had set up a makeshift schoolroom and quizzed them on their writing, both kids being model students as a change to show off for Connor. In the evenings, Eden read to them from a leather-bound copy of Peter Pan Connor plucked from one of the shelves in the guestroom.

It was all very domestic and idyllic—and totally artificial. For three days they played the parts of the perfect nuclear family. They could have given Leave It to Beaver a run for its money in American dreaminess. But it wasn’t real. It wasn’t permanent. A fact Eden had to keep reminding herself of.

She tried not to fixate on Hannah Rose presenting Connor with a picture she’d drawn for him or the way the big man blushed and gave the girl one of his slow smiles. She ignored the studious intensity Lucas fixed on Connor as he explained flanking maneuvers in preparation for their next epic snowball fight—and the pealing laughter she hadn’t heard from Lucas in months when Connor stumbled dramatically to the ground beneath the eight-year-old’s tackle.

After the kids’ bath time and bedtime, Eden and Connor were early to bed themselves—with the exception of one notable and slippery interlude against the shower wall. The sex had been great from the start, but sometime over the last few days it had become more than just intense physical chemistry and the pleasurable scratching of a mutual itch.

Beyond attraction, beyond trust, Eden liked him.

More than that, she liked who she was when she was with him. Who they all were. No longer a stressed-out single mom trying desperately to maintain some sense of youth in a pair of old-beyond-their-years children. Now they were a family. He’d fallen into the daddy role so easily—or perhaps an uncle would be more accurate. There was still a distance, a lingering caution in the way the kids approached him, but it was a start. And a start toward a normal family life was more than she’d even dreamed of a week ago.

This wasn’t love. It was just casting a part in a fantasy. But she wasn’t sure her heart knew the difference. They hadn’t had a fight yet. Her stepsister always preached that you didn’t know how you really stood with a man until you’d disagreed with him—but all those Cosmo relationship rules were from a different time. In just a year the mores of her world had shifted, and Eden wasn’t sure what love was and wasn’t in this new society.

Maybe love was security and safety and the renewal of hope she hadn’t felt in months.

Connor didn’t say much, but his actions spoke of honor and affection.

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