Reunion with the Brooding Millionaire by Ellie Darkins

Author:Ellie Darkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-12-15T16:16:45+00:00

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When Liv had called her away, she’d assumed it was something to do with her broken ankle. She doubted she would have let anything other than a broken bone tear her away from Jonathan at that moment. But it turned out all she wanted was to ask whether Rowan wanted to watch a movie when she and Jonathan were finished in the library.

Sitting at one end of the back-breaking sofa later that night, with Jonathan mirroring her body language next to her, she was certain that saying yes had been a terrible idea. She had assumed that Jonathan would carry on working in the library, but to her and everyone else’s surprise, he had shut his laptop not long after seven and come to find them all in the family room.

Did this mean that he thought last night had been the start of something, rather than the end? She’d spent all day hoping that it was, even if it was a something that would only last a few days. All she knew was that she wanted more of the kisses that they had shared that morning. More of the way that she had felt when she was in his bed and in his arms. The only thing was, she wasn’t entirely sure how to get there from here, trying to sneak sideways glances at Jonathan from her side of the sofa.

She scratched absently at her shin, the nettle rash starting to bother her again. Until she found her fingers gently pulled away and trapped in Jonathan’s palm, and looked up at him in surprise. ‘It’ll make it worse,’ he said in a low voice so that the others didn’t hear. ‘Do you want me to fetch you something for it?’ he asked, and she wanted to melt under his kindness.

‘It’s fine,’ she whispered, not pulling away. Maybe this was how they got there, she thought to herself. With tiny moves towards each other in the dark.

Jonathan didn’t move away either, other than to give her hand a quick squeeze back. And so they sat holding hands, Rowan feeling positively adolescent—if her adolescence had involved such things as holding hands with boys, rather than trying to make herself as small and unnoticeable as possible in the hope of avoiding her bullies. Or, at least, not offering them further ammunition.

When she started to scratch at her other leg, Jonathan drew her closer, his arm around her shoulders this time, and he ran his palm slowly up her shin. Sensation enough to distract her from the stings. She held her breath, not sure that she could take this intimacy from him when both of his siblings were in the room.

‘Right,’ Liv said, as soon as the movie finished. ‘I’m going to bed.’

‘Do you need me to hel—?’ Jonathan started to offer, half rising from his seat before he was interrupted.

‘No, I’ve got it,’ Caleb said, jumping up and passing Liv her crutches, before helping her out of her chair. ‘I think

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