Smoldering Heart: Fleming Brothers Book 1 by Jennifer Vester

Author:Jennifer Vester [Vester, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

~Madison~

Waking up beside Owen was surreal. If anyone would have told me last month or the year before, that this particular man was the one that I would have spent the last hour making love to, I would have laughed.

Owen Fleming. Tattooed, pierced, adrenaline junkie.

I yawned as I opened my eyes and found myself still brazenly draped over his solid chest.

The afternoon sun was peeking through the blinds, throwing shafts of light on the sexy, sleeping man beside me.

My decision to have sex with him had been spontaneous in a way. He had stoked the fires of my fantasies and delivered something far more than I had imagined.

I thought through my feelings about it and had no regrets.

He hadn’t called and my anger about it had come more from the disappointment I had felt more than anything. It didn’t matter now.

He sighed in his sleep, as he tightened his arm around me.

His eyes had dark coloring under them, and I remembered how exhausted he'd looked earlier. I wondered if he'd gotten any sleep while moving.

Moved. For me. And quit his job.

I couldn’t imagine him doing anything other than what he'd been doing, though. It concerned me that after he settled in and the weight of his decision hit him he would regret making such a life changing choice.

It was sweet in a way. It wasn’t like I didn’t see his effort for what it was. He had done this to be with me. But a man like Owen would need something else in his life to give him meaning. To define him.

He said he'd gotten into his job because he'd wanted to help protect people, and that seemed like a noble calling, now that I'd thought about it more. It wasn’t the sort of calling that Rachel had every other day to help champion some new cause. It seemed more like a lifelong pursuit to do what he could with the abilities that he had.

He stretched his muscles slightly, and I watched as his eyes opened.

Giving me a small smile, he slipped one of his hands down to my hip and gently rubbed it.

“Hey,” I whispered. “You can keep sleeping if you want.”

He shook his head. “Things to do. Unpack my things. Scratch that. Clean that house, then unpack my things.”

“How bad is it?”

“Well, considering no one has lived in it for a few years, not so bad. My parents had someone go by and clean it every once in a while. But the flooring probably needs some work. The appliances are from the sixties. The backyard is dead. I think the plumbing may need to be looked at.”

“Oh, that sounds pretty bad.”

He shrugged. “It’s going to be a pain in my ass for a while. I need to contact some local people and get the ball rolling on some renovations.”

I raised up on my elbow to look down at him. “Is it even habitable?”

He chuckled. “Let’s just say, I may need you to check on me every other day to make sure I haven’t died from lead poisoning, fallen through the floor or worse.

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