The Affair: Week 6 by Beth Kery

Author:Beth Kery
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: romance, General, contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780698150881
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-10-21T05:00:00+00:00

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He lifted her and carried her over to the mussed bed. While she snuggled into the softness, he stripped off the rest of his clothes. When he lay on his back a moment later with Emma’s head on his chest and the cool breeze drifting across his heated skin, he experienced a rare, profound sense of peace. He trailed his hand up Emma’s supple back and along her arm, relishing in her shape and the silkiness of her skin.

Her presence.

“Thank you for coming,” he said.

She lifted her head off his chest and looked at him. Her hair was a mess of gilded waves. Her cheeks and lips were still stained pink. She was adorable. Sexy as hell. He didn’t used to think those two things could go hand in hand so perfectly until he’d met Emma.

“You’re welcome,” she said, her soft brown eyes moving over his face.

His gaze narrowed. “There’s nine of them,” he said distractedly.

She raised her eyebrows in a query.

“Nine freckles on your nose,” he clarified.

“I hate every one of them,” she said, rolling her eyes and covering her nose with her hand.

He sat up partially, turning her in his arms so that she lay pinned beneath him. Her hand fell away in her surprise at his abrupt action. “I love every one,” he growled ominously. He kissed her nose repeatedly, stilling her wriggling, the sound of her laughter making him smile. “One kiss for each adorable freckle,” he said before he leaned down and tasted her lips. She was so sweet. Everywhere, he thought as his tongue dipped into her mouth. He’d like to kiss her like that in the soft bed forever, with the refreshing breeze cooling him, desire banked but glowing inside him like a warm ember that would leap back into a flame at any moment. When he lifted his head a moment later, her liquid brown eyes had gone sober as she looked up at him.

“I know what you meant now,” she whispered breathlessly. “When you said once that you could do exactly what you did to Astrid to me, and it would be completely different.”

A pain went through him at the idea of her still thinking about what she’d seen in that armoire. He meant what he’d said earlier. If only he could erase that night from her memory. If only he could eradicate it from his. He realized he was so caught up in his shame about what she’d seen that perhaps he hadn’t fully understood her.

“What do you mean?” he asked, his fingers brushing against the delicate line of her jaw. “Don’t tell me you thought that”—he glanced in the direction of the bench—“was remotely like what you saw that night.”

“No. It wasn’t. That’s my point,” she said softly. “I mean, some of the actions might have been similar, but . . .” She faded off, seeming to struggle with finding the right words.

“I was making love to you, Emma,” he said starkly, exposing himself in an uncommon way because he hated to see her uncertainty.

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