Second Time Around by Simone Jaine

Author:Simone Jaine [Jaine, Simone]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-09-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 20

“I can sleep on the sofa if you prefer me to,” Alec said as he watched Halley take in the queen sized bed in their hotel room. The room was part of their wedding gift from Rufus who had also organised the celebrant for the ceremony earlier that afternoon. Rufus had joked that by using the same one he had used for his last two weddings he had been able to get a discount.

Halley tore her eyes from the bed.

“No. There’s room enough for both of us,” she said carefully, liking the idea of being able to spend an entire weekend relaxing with her new husband without being continually interrupted by the children. For the past week she had been frantically busy packing up the household to move next door while the children had un-helped. Despite her best efforts she had only managed to clear the bedrooms and the home office.

It hadn’t helped that she’d had to put the packing on hold for a day after a deluge of rain affected the fence between their properties. The whole fence had started leaning ominously in the direction of Alec’s property and they’d had to prop up the fence, dig around the base of the posts and pour in the concrete that Rufus had initially recommended they use.

Alec’s face had been grim the whole time he had dug around the posts, daring her to bring up the fact that he had ignored Rufus’ advice. As Halley stirred wheelbarrows full of concrete in the drizzle while he worked it didn’t even occur to her to give him a hard time over it. She was too busy enjoying the patter of rain on the umbrella she held over their heads. It was far more soothing than the racket coming from the noisy children inside.

Now Halley was looking forward to spending her wedding night sleeping peacefully. Not terribly romantic of her, she knew but she would have been only kidding herself if she thought Alec was interested in her as a woman when she felt as alluring as a hippo wearing lipstick.

She placed a hand on the small of her back and started rubbing. Alec immediately came up behind her and took over the task.

“Is Peanut giving you a hard time?” he asked.

Halley gave a small smile at his appellation for the baby despite her discomfit.

“No. It’s just a back ache. I think I’ve been overdoing it the past few days,” she admitted.

“Would you prefer to get room service instead of going out somewhere?” Alec asked.

Halley met his eyes over her shoulder and Alec could tell she was relieved.

“If that’s okay.”

Alec’s hands glided up to her shoulders and gave them a squeeze.

“Of course it is,” he told her softly.

He started massaging her neck and Halley dropped her head forward with a groan of pleasure.

“That feels so good,” she murmured.

Encouraged, Alec tugged her cream coloured shrug off her shoulders and dropped it on the bed. He returned his hands to the nape of her neck and started unbuttoning her matching maternity wedding dress.

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