Seize the Night (The Original Sinners Pulp Library) by Tiffany Reisz

Author:Tiffany Reisz [Reisz, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 8th Circle Press
Published: 2022-03-07T18:30:00+00:00

A Fool's Paradise

Remi awoke with the first light and found Julien already awake and sitting by the window. He had something in his hands—a book or magazine. She couldn’t tell. She looked at him sitting in the sunlight. In the glint of the morning she could see every inch of the long pink scar on his chest. Nothing scared Remi—not spiders, not snakes, not jumping horses, not anything. But the idea that she’d almost lost Julien before she’d found him again—that terrified her. She said a silent prayer of thanks he’d survived his battle with cancer, which made this morning and every other morning she planned to wake up with him possible.

“Morning already?” she asked, pulling the covers over her breasts and sitting up.

“Unfortunately,” he said. In nothing but his pale blue boxer shorts, he walked over to the bed and leaned in for a kiss. “Good morning.”

“Morning breath,” she said.

“Don’t care,” he said and kissed her hard and deep before pulling back and smiling at her. “I woke up without my stupid virginity hanging over my head. You think a little morning breath is going to bother me?”

“Your virginity was hanging over your head?” Remi asked. “And I thought hymens were weird.”

Julien laughed and pulled her into his arms. Remi sighed, deeply contented despite the lingering worry in the back of her mind. She couldn’t bear the thought of leaving Julien, and yet she could only stay in Paris so long before everyone back home got dangerously suspicious.

“Thank you for last night,” he said, kissing her neck and her shoulders.

“I should thank you. That was amazing,” she said. “It might have been your first time, but it was my best time.”

“Best time? Are we talking sex or races?”

She laughed again. “Sorry. Hard to get my head out of the business.”

“You really run things at Arden, don’t you?” Julien stretched out next to her in bed. He slid his hand under the sheets and rubbed her hips and thighs.

“I do. At least I thought I did before all this mess. Mom and Dad have been running the show behind my back. I’m more than a little pissed off about that.”

“I don’t blame you,” he said. “I’m pretty pissed too. I don’t know how bad this could get, but I know when there’s gambling and race-fixing and professional sports involved, it can be…”

“A disaster,” she completed for him. “Pete Rose banned from baseball. Lance Armstrong stripped of his medals and jerseys. Reggie Bush giving back the Heisman.”

“You know so much more about sports than I do.”

“You’re not a typical guy, are you, Julien?” Remi asked.

“In the hospital, the nurses would hang out in my room with me longer if I had soap operas on. And my sisters would visit and that’s what they wanted to watch. That and Grey’s Anatomy. I put my foot down over that one. I had enough hospital drama in my own life.”

Remi almost smiled, but she saw Julien wasn’t joking.

“That must have been lonely,” she said. “Being in the hospital all the time.

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