SEDUCTIVE: A Contemporary Romance Anthology by Anthology

Author:Anthology [Anthology]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07NN7XL7T
Publisher: Pure Textuality PR
Published: 2019-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

Olympia was a piece of work, Harlan decided as he carried a drowsy Renee upstairs to her room five nights later. Not that he was an expert when it came to judging women, especially single ones, but he had two working peepers, a brain, and he wasn’t completely dumb, either.

She hadn’t batted an eye that first night when he’d caved to her wishes and did so with a smile on his face. Although he could see the cogs turning in her head. She wasn’t sure what to make of him. Which, at the end of the day, he was okay with because he was starting to understand her better.

Underneath the tough exterior was a good heart, a soft heart, a heart afraid of being hurt again. She hid her vulnerability behind an impenetrable wall of perfection and questioned anyone who didn’t react the way she expected them to react.

Which meant he had freaked her out more than she was willing to admit.

Good, he mused with a grin. He wanted to keep her on her toes. And he was enjoying getting to know her better, taking down her walls with kindness. It hurt him that she didn’t expect the kindness.

How had her husband treated her, so that any kind of selfless reaction was foreign?

It was unfair to blame a dead man. Maybe it wasn’t his fault at all.

Harlan shook his head. It also wasn’t right, considering the circumstances, for him to entertain some healthy daydreams—and night dreams, come to think of it—about his employer. Her face…there was something memorable about her kind of beauty. It brought men to their knees and made them wonder what was beneath it. Wonder and imagine stripping away the layers to get to the core of her. Or maybe it was just him.

He knew she was intelligent. She was competent and responsible. Obsessed with doing, saying, thinking, being the right thing. Her heart was in the right place.

Even if she hadn’t hired him to care for Renee, the fantasies would have to stay in his head and remain there. Harlan knew from personal experience that flings didn’t work. Especially flings and one-night stands where both parties weren’t on the same page. Olympia, for all he respected her, was not in a position for a relationship. Of any kind.

Too bad, the wistful area of his heart argued. The romantic part he hadn’t gotten to use much. It would have been amazing to romance her, seduce her. Love her.

“Harlan?”

The tiny voice broke through his thoughts and he returned his attention to the nearly asleep child. He’d carried her upstairs after she’d nodded off in front of the television. Olympia was working late and asked him to stay until she got home. It was no problem.

He shifted her in his arms. “Yes, honey?”

“I don’t like it here.”

His heart broke at the tremor in her words. “Why not?”

“I miss Mommy and Daddy. I miss my room. It doesn’t feel like mine here.”

“I know it’s hard for you,” he said

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