Santa Assignment by Fossen Delores

Author:Fossen, Delores [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9780373228126
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-27T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Brayden bracketed his hands against the shower wall and let the water pound down on his neck and back. It helped with the knotted muscles. It even helped a little with the bone-weary fatigue.

It didn't help anything else.

He'd violated rules. Personal rules. There was already enough conflict between Ashley and him without adding sex to the mix. Yet, he'd added it. And it didn't matter that it was one-sided. It was still intimate contact that he should have done everything in his power to avoid.

Instead, he'd instigated it.

Brayden cursed and turned his face toward the hard spray of water. He could have dismissed the time in her laundry room as a necessity. And he had dismissed it. But what he'd done in his bedroom with Ashley wasn't a dismissing kind of thing, and it certainly wasn't a necessity. Even though it had felt like it at the time.

A pity orgasm, she'd called it.

Hell, he only wished that were true.

He could handle feeling pity for her far better than he could handle feeling anything else. Because that anything else was beginning to encompass emotions he should never feel. That damn sure wasn't why he'd brought her here. This was about saving Colton, and if he had to tattoo that onto his forehead, or another specific part of him, he would remember it.

Deciding the doctor should be done with the insemination by now, Brayden turned off the shower and got dressed. He took his time, though, mainly because he figured both Ashley and he would need it before facing each other. Thanks to him and that so-called pity orgasm, he'd made things practically unbearable between them.

Brayden stepped out of the bathroom, paused and listened. No sound of voices. No sound of anything. When he went to the living room and glanced out the window, he saw that the doctor's car was no longer parked in front of the house.

"She left right after the procedure," he heard Ashley say from behind him.

She was in the hall, just outside the guest room door. She, too, was dressed. She even had on her coat. And her suitcase was in her hand.

"Everything went like clockwork," Ashley explained. She stepped closer. But not too close. And she maneuvered the suitcase so that it was between them. "The doctor wished us good luck."

Brayden nodded, suddenly not caring what the doctor said, and he tipped his head to the suitcase. "What's this about?"

"I'm going home." She pressed her lips together for a moment. "It's time, Brayden."

Man, he'd seriously blown it.

He'd expected Ashley to keep her distance, but he hadn't expected to send her on the run. He had some fast-talking to do if he hoped to convince her to stay put. And then he'd have to do more fast-talking to explain to himself why he wanted her to stay.

She walked to the window. Not the one next to him, but the one on the other side of the room. As far away from him as she could get while remaining in the same general vicinity.

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