Snowflakes on the Sea by Linda Lael Miller

Author:Linda Lael Miller [Miller, Linda Lael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781472012722
Publisher: Mira
Published: 1983-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

7

They sat facing each other in the center of the huge, love-rumpled bed, Nathan clad only in a pair of cutoff jeans, Mallory wearing a lace-trimmed teddy that was, like the swimsuit, a remnant of some other visit to her husband’s house.

A dozen feet away, a fire crackled romantically on the hearth of a small, ornate ivory fireplace, and a new snow was drifting past the windows over the head of Nathan’s bed. Still dazed from the lovemaking that had consumed the whole afternoon, Mallory sighed with warm contentment.

“What do we do now?” she asked, stifling a yawn.

An evil light sparkled in Nathan’s dark eyes, but then he laughed at her sudden blush. “You’re as pink as that delectable bit of silk you’re wearing. What is that thing, anyway?”

Mallory laughed and scooted back a little, as though to withhold herself from this man who could take her whenever and wherever he pleased. “It’s a teddy—don’t you know anything?”

He grinned, and with a warm, exploring finger traced the snow-white lace edging Mallory’s bodice. “I know it drives me crazy. What I don’t know is whether I like it better on or off.”

“Lecher.”

Nathan tilted his head to one side and chuckled. His finger slipped with tantalizing prowess into the warm, shadowed cleft between her breasts, then coursed upward, slowly, along the satiny length of her neck to the supersensitive place beneath her right ear.

Mallory shivered, though she’d never been warmer in her life, and then glared at her husband. “Will you stop that, you sex fiend?”

He laughed, withdrew his tormenting hand and bounded suddenly off the bed. The light from the fire shifted and danced in fascinating patterns on the sun-browned, muscular expanse of his naked back as he went to a closet and began rummaging through a variety of items stacked on the top shelf. “All right,” he conceded in a teasing voice that set Mallory to wanting him all over again, “I am a man of my word. No sex for at least three hours.”

“That is so big of you,” Mallory retorted, somewhat petulantly, her eyes still fixed on the splendid play of the muscles in his back and his powerful thighs.

“Noble is my middle name,” he said.

“Albert is your middle name,” Mallory countered, an obnoxious grin curving her lips.

Nathan whirled from the shelf, a Monopoly box clutched in both hands, his face a mockery of outrage. “And if you ever tell, I’ll shave your mink jacket,” he threatened, approaching the bed with long, ominous strides.

“Rash words,” she shot back, reaching out and grabbing the game from his hands. “You forget how many charge cards I have.”

The bed sloped a little as Nathan returned to his former position, facing Mallory, his long legs crossed at the ankles, Indian-style, and opened the Monopoly box. “You have me there,” he said. “But Monopoly is another matter. I’m warning you, woman—if you buy Park Place and Boardwalk again and jam them with hotels, it’s over between us.”

Mallory smiled evilly and arched one eyebrow.

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