Reunited with His Long-Lost Cinderella by Laura Martin

Author:Laura Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-05T15:59:43+00:00

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Francesca must have dozed for she felt heavy and unwilling to move when she woke up.

‘Good afternoon,’ Ben said from his position at the end of the bed. He was dressed and had a sheaf of papers in his hand as if he’d been reading them while he waited for her to wake.

‘What time is it?’ she asked, feeling the panic rising up inside her.

‘Only two.’

She’d slept for nearly three hours. Self-consciously she pulled the sheets up a bit higher, aware that she was completely naked under the bedclothes while Ben was sitting there with his dignity intact.

‘I should be getting back home soon. I said I was going shopping with an old friend.’

Ben nodded and she felt a stab of disappointment. Part of her imagined him gathering her up in his arms, promising they’d never be parted again and whispering his undying affection in her ear. Quietly she snorted. That was never going to happen. Ben had made it quite clear over their short acquaintance that his relationships with women were short-lived only. He would give them affection and share pleasure, but he didn’t get emotionally attached, not in a lasting way. Eight days, that was what he suggested they spend together, and after that they would disappear from one another’s lives again.

As she shuffled off the bed, pulling the sheets closely around her, she wondered at the direction of her thoughts. She shouldn’t be thinking of a future with Ben, her path was already decided. When she’d kissed him she’d known exactly how things were going to end up, and it wasn’t with a walk down the aisle—at least not with him.

‘I have seen you naked,’ Ben remarked mildly, ‘so if you’d prefer not to break your neck hopping around in that sheet, that would be acceptable.’

Looking at him with her best haughty expression, she said nothing. He was enjoying this—she could tell by the barely repressed grin on his face. Deciding to shock him, she stood straight, dropped the sheet and looked him in the eye, challenging him to hold her gaze.

He couldn’t. Within three seconds his eyes had dropped to her body. She refused to blush, despite the heat already creeping into her cheeks, and waited for his eyes to come back up to meet hers.

‘Perhaps you shouldn’t have done that, Frannie,’ he murmured, dropping the papers he was holding on to the floor and moving towards her.

‘In your own words, you have seen me naked,’ she said, finding it difficult not to sink into him as soon as he came close. ‘There should be nothing surprising for you here.’

‘Not surprising,’ he said. ‘Awe-inspiring, desire-inducing, but not surprising.’

Gently he ran his fingers over her shoulders, making her skin feel on fire and before she knew what was happening he’d tumbled her back on the bed, his mouth seeking hers.

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