The Accidental Bridegroom by Ann Major

Author:Ann Major
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Major Press LLC
Published: 2016-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

Rafe awakened groggily, with a queasy feeling in the pit of his stomach and a headache pulsing fiercely behind his hot eyelids. He was disoriented in the darkness; the only thing he knew for sure was that he had one hell of a hangover.

Then Cathy stirred beside him, and her warm fingers lightly skimming the length of his torso sent a tingle of alarm radiating through him.

He was in Mexico. There was a price on his head.

He had imprisoned Maurice and seduced this woman whom he loved…under false pretenses—again.

If she hadn’t despised him before, she damn sure would now.

As the enormity of his guilt struck him, Rafe felt too sick to enjoy the blissful sensuality of her warm body cuddled against his own. Too sick to savor the immensely soothing comfort in the rightness of her legs and arms entwined around his.

She was so deliciously small, so soft and sweet-smelling. Had it not been for the guilt, he would have been profoundly happy to have her lying still and quiet beside him.

The champagne made his memories hazy. But he could remember enough to hate himself. He had believed the last thing he wanted was to be the father of the pixie-faced imp in the snapshot. But he’d found out he was, and when Cathy had admitted that she hadn’t ever slept with anyone except him, a fierce possessive joy had blazed through him.

Maybe if he hadn’t drunk so much champagne, his blood wouldn’t have turned to fire when he’d taken her in his arms. Maybe then he would have been able to resist her even after he discovered she was fantasizing it was he making love to her instead of Maurice.

Rafe cursed himself when he remembered how she’d run from him and tried to lock herself in the bathroom. He’d grabbed her and kissed her; he had all but forced himself on her. Then, instead of confessing the truth when she’d called out his name and begged his forgiveness, he’d taken her again and again—the need to prove that she belonged to him in that most basic way overpowering all else.

Not that he could totally regret the sex. He liked remembering her hands tightening around the corded muscles at the base of his spine, pulling him closer and deeper inside her. He liked remembering how her thighs had encircled him, how she’d arched her body eagerly to his, begging him to love her, shuddering deeply in total surrender each time they’d climaxed.

Nor could he regret the pleasure that lingered afterward when he had lain stroking her tangled hair, realizing, fool that he was, he loved her more than ever, realizing that only in her arms could he lose his hellish loneliness.

Throughout his life, Rafe had lost too many people—his father, then his mother, and finally Cathy. After Cathy, except for Mike and Vadda, Rafe had found it increasingly difficult to form meaningful relationships. Vadda was pregnant, and when Cathy had inadvertently let him know he was Sadie’s father, Rafe had thought of the photograph albums filled with pictures of Sadie.

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