Riding Red by Nadia Aidan

Author:Nadia Aidan [Aidan, Nadia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2012-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Warm, amber sunlight did not spill through the curtains that morning. Instead, the sky remained grey and gloomy as if it was still considering pouring down another flurry of rain.

With the less than pleasant weather, as far as Jeff was concerned, that was all the more reason to remain right where he was, nestled against soft, creamy skin that was warm to the touch.

Teresa lay curled up against him with one leg draped across his body and her head resting atop his chest. His hands roamed aimlessly up and down the length of her back, and he closed his eyes for just a moment to inhale the rich, flowery scent of her hair. Jeff could not stem the silly smile that stretched across his face at the feeling of contentment which had settled over him.

He’d never imagined it would feel like this, to actually wake to a woman in his arms and not experience the urge to grab his clothes and tear out of there—that was, if he’d even managed to stay long enough to actually spend the night.

Of his brothers, he was the worst of them when it came to commitment—to establishing any permanent entanglements. He hadn’t always been that way. He recalled a time when he’d actually wanted the same things as Jacob and Jackson…even Jason, although his younger brother would never admit it.

His accident had changed everything for him, had shattered whatever future he’d thought he’d have with a woman, so he’d spent years telling himself he didn’t want any more than a casual fling, a warm body to ease his lusts.

That was until he’d met her…

Jeff glanced down at Teresa when she shifted against him and a knot tightened in his chest until he worried his heart would burst from the pressure. It was not a sexual response, although, he acknowledged with a wry grin, he experienced that too as his cock lengthened and hardened until it brushed against her thigh. He closed his eyes again, breathing deep, willing his body to release him from its stranglehold of desire, at the same time as he fought against the weight of guilt that still pressed against his chest.

Teresa made him want things he shouldn’t want, made him hope for a life he couldn’t have. He wanted to be the man to give her whatever she desired. He knew that he couldn’t, but that didn’t stop the longing.

With a weary, ragged sigh, Jeff tried to roll out from beneath Teresa. Jason had long ago left the bed, and he could hear his brother in the kitchen making breakfast. Jeff decided to shower while Teresa slept, but she seemed to have other plans.

Though she still remained asleep, as he moved to slip out of bed, she clung to him—her legs tightening around his, her arms winding around back.

Jeff groaned—a deep, guttural, desperate sound. He was trying to do the honourable thing. He was trying to walk away now—before he made promises to her he couldn’t keep—because Jeff knew he could deny Teresa nothing, not when every part of him longed to please her, to make her happy.

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