Tall Dark And Alpha (Twenty Book Box Set) by Favor Kelly & Ford Hannah & North Paige & London Ella & Marx Locklyn

Author:Favor, Kelly & Ford, Hannah & North, Paige & London, Ella & Marx, Locklyn [Favor, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-12T07:00:00+00:00

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When they got to Katie’s hospital room, Katie was sitting up in bed, watching an episode of the Golden Girls and holding a flimsy paper cup filled with ice chips.

“Hey!” she said when she saw Anna. Her pretty face broke into a smile.

“Hi,” Anna said, leaning down and kissing Katie on both cheeks.

“Thanks for coming.” Katie readjusted the blue and white checked blanket that was draped over her legs. “You didn’t have to, you know.”

“I know,” Anna said, “but I wanted to.” And I needed a reason to get away from your brother before I ended up doing something I’d regret.

“Jaxon,” Katie said in surprise, her eyes falling on her brother as he walked into the room.

“Hey, sis,” he said nonchalantly.

“What are you doing here?” Katie’s voice was suspicious.

“I heard you were in labor. You didn’t think I was going to miss the birth of my first nephew, did you?”

“No, that’s great, I’m glad you’re here, but how did you…I mean, I thought you were in… ” Understanding dawned on Katie’s face as she realized Jaxon and Anna must have been together.

Anna looked down at the floor and fiddled with her fingers. “Where’s Adam?” she asked finally, in an effort to move the conversation onto safer ground.

“He went to sign some papers at the nurses’ station.” Katie narrowed her eyes, then moved her finger back and forth between Jaxon and Anna. “What’s going on here?”

“What do you mean?” Anna asked. Her face felt hot, and she reached up and smoothed her hair. She wondered how disheveled she looked after her tryst in the elevator.

“I mean, why are you two together?” She turned to Jaxon. “I thought you were sleeping in the guestroom. I thought I was being so nice, staying quiet so I wouldn’t wake you.”

“Oh, stop,” Jaxon said, rolling his eyes at his sister. He flopped down in one of the brown corduroy chairs that lined the far wall of Katie’s hospital room. “Anna and I ran into each other at the gas station. She asked me if I wanted to grab a bite, and then we got to reminiscing. We were still out when she got your text. It was nothing nefarious, so you can wipe that look off your face.”

Katie cocked her head, her frown deepening. Anna could tell she didn’t believe a word of Jaxon’s flimsy excuse, but what could Katie really say?

“How are you feeling?” Anna asked quickly, perching on the edge of Katie’s bed and trying to ignore Jaxon’s presence. She could almost feel his mouth on hers, his hands pushing her skirt up. If that elevator hadn’t moved when it did, she would have let him take her right there. Her face flushed hot, and she shifted on the bed.

“Not bad,” Katie said. She started describing how the contractions had started, how she’d only been sleeping for about an hour when they’d woken her up. Anna tried to listen, nodding politely as Katie talked, but her mind was a million miles away.

She couldn’t

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