Reluctantly In Love (Emerald Cove Romance Book 1) by Siân James

Author:Siân James [James, Siân]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stiley Lifestyle PTY LTD
Published: 2020-12-28T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

My phone chimed with the arrival of a text. I checked the screen. Matt.

Matt: Hey, how was your day?

Me: Great. We got a lot done on site.

Matt: That’s good, I look forward to seeing it when I get back.

I grinned down at my phone and bit my thumb as I re-read the last forty-eight hours of messages.

On Sunday morning, I’d woken up with two texts from Matt telling me how much he’d thought about me through the night and asking if I was awake and wanted to go for a coffee.

He’d texted at six am, and I’d woken at nine.

First let me say—holy cow, I never sleep that late.

And second—boo!

After a flurry of texts, I discovered he’d already had coffee and was on his way to Sydney. He had some commitments he’d agreed to uphold despite being on leave. Something about an opening event for a new swanky apartment complex and a meeting with a new client he was due to work with on return from leave, and he wouldn’t be back until Friday night.

I was disappointed.

Not at the reminder that his time in Emerald Cove was capped, though that did give me a sense of urgency about making the most of his time here if I wanted to get more kissing and other things in.

No, I was mostly disappointed because I was hoping for a repeat of last night’s kiss.

I’d slept late this morning because I’d had trouble falling asleep last night thinking about how his lips had moved on mine, the way his hands had explored and gripped at my body. The feel of warm skin through the cotton of his shirt, his silky hair through my fingers.

It was the hottest kiss of my life, and I was having trouble coming down off the high it had elicited.

Then the second guessing had started.

Yeah, sure he’d kissed me a second time. And it was so sweet and weighted with meaning it had reassured me in the moment. But in the deep dark of the night, it was hard to pull those feelings of reassurance to mind as my subconscious twisted and turned, assessing every little interaction.

For example, was the last kiss just a kiss goodnight? Did he mean it to be reassuring, or had I read something in it that wasn’t there? He’d held me too, breathing me in, though was he really breathing me in? Or just taking a deep breath after we’d been kissing?

He’d told me he needed me to kiss him first, needed to know it was really me choosing to kiss him and not feeling obligated. But was that just so he got a snog and didn’t have to worry about sexual harassment claims?

I cringed into the dark. That thought was unfair and I shelved it immediately.

Then my brain circled back to whether he’d meant anything more by that second kiss …

It had been passed midnight before I’d finally drifted off.

Now I was faced with two more days of no physical contact and no

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