Sinful Seduction by Alice Raine

Author:Alice Raine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Accent Press
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

‘Good morning, sleeping beauty.’

Warm lips skated across my mouth and dropped a kiss on my brow, and I groggily blinked as I awoke. My eyelids were heavy, but as my sight cleared I got a full-on view of bright green eyes taking up my entire field of vision.

Wow, he was close.

Leaning away slightly, Khalil smiled down on me, an expression that morphed into a childlike grin as I engaged my sleepy brain and returned the smile.

‘Hey.’

‘How's the head feeling?’

I shifted experimentally, and even tested out a nod before grinning at him. ‘Much better, thank you.’

‘Good. I brought some breakfast up, are you hungry?’

Inhaling, I realised I could smell the delicious scent of fresh coffee and glanced across at the small table to see a plate piled with pastries, two mugs, and a large pot of coffee.

‘Yum. Yes, please.’

Instead of allowing me to move to the seating area, Khalil leaped up and brought the tray to the bed, placing it on the end where neither of us would knock it.

Pushing my hair back behind my ears, I looked down at the food and blushed. ‘I’m … I’m sorry that my headache interrupted things last night.’

Khalil chuckled, and set about pouring the coffee. ‘No need to apologise. If anything, it should be me saying sorry for forgetting myself and pushing you when you were ill.’

I picked at a pastry and frowned. ‘You didn’t push me,’ I mumbled. ‘But actually, I’m kinda glad we didn’t get too carried away,’ I admitted, my cheeks heating with the constant blush that this man seemed to cause.

Khalil sat back and stared at me, stretching out his long legs and crossing his feet at the ankles. ‘Is a stable boy not good enough for you?’ His voice was a mix of curiosity and teasing.

He may have been asking a question, but his words made me roll my eyes. He might love horses, but I was fairly confident that he was not a stable boy; his clothes, accent, manners and posture screamed of class and money. Letting out a dry chuckle, I eased myself into a sitting position.

‘Not that it would matter to me, but you’re not a stable boy, Khalil.’

Crossing his arms, he raised a challenging eyebrow at me, a playful twinkle still lighting his eyes. ‘I might be. How can you be so sure?’

‘You seem far too at home with all this opulence,’ I replied, waving a hand around at the room, which still made me gawk with wide eyes when I paused to look at how beautiful it was.

‘This isn’t my house,’ he reminded me, his expression still teasing.

‘Maybe not, but you’re comfortable here, familiar almost, as if either this house, or this level of wealth are normal for you.’

There was a lengthy pause, then Khalil smiled. ‘You’ve caught me red-handed. This is my parents’ house. I grew up here on the estate.’

Woah. I’d expected him to confess that this was a friend's place that he was looking after for the summer, not to admit that his family owned this sprawling property.

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