The Christmas Marriage Rescue by Sarah Morgan

Author:Sarah Morgan [Morgan, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459291751
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘MUM, can we go to the forest to choose our tree tomorrow?’

Christy looked up from injecting brandy into the Christmas cake. ‘I—Yes, why not? We usually get it the week before Christmas.’

‘And is Dad coming, too?’

Christy inhaled sharply. How was she supposed to know? Alessandro had hardly spoken to her since they’d returned from the mountain rescue the day before. At work he’d been cold and distant and he’d arrived home late and come to bed long after her.

‘Well…’

‘Of course I’m coming.’ Alessandro strolled into the room, still bare-chested after his shower, his jaw dark with stubble. ‘Family ritual—choosing the biggest tree in the forest.’

Christy felt her insides drop with longing. She wanted to slide her hands over his bronzed, muscular body—wanted to feel his hands on her. Suddenly she had a disturbingly vivid mental picture of his hard body coming down on hers and—

‘Christy?’

She snapped out of her erotic daydream and realised that he was watching her with a slumberous expression on his handsome face. Did he know? she wondered. Did he know that she’d been imagining the two of them together?

‘Sorry.’ The croak in her voice betrayed her. ‘Did you say something?’

‘I said that we are both going to the Snow Ball tomorrow night,’ he said in that slightly accented drawl that always sent her pulse racing. ‘Your mother has offered to babysit.’

‘Oh…’ Her heart fluttered. She couldn’t remember the last time they’d gone out together, let alone to the Snow Ball. It was held every Christmas for all the hospital staff but usually Alessandro was working.

Her heart lifted at the prospect of a proper evening out.

It would be her chance to dress up.

To remind him that the mother of his children was also a living, breathing sexual woman.

If she was going to follow Jake’s advice and fight, then what better place to start than at a party?

Ben frowned. ‘But if you go out then it means you can’t read my story.’

‘I’ll read your story.’ Katy elbowed her brother hard and beamed at both of them. ‘Sounds great! A lovely, family day. Christmas tree followed by Snow Ball. Can’t wait.’

Alessandro’s dark gaze slid towards his daughter. ‘You don’t mind having a babysitter again?’

‘Mind? Why would we mind?’

Ben opened his mouth but closed it again in response to his sister’s quelling look.

Why was he suggesting the party? Christy wondered. Was Alessandro suddenly keen to mend fences, too?

But then she remembered that, apart from that one passionate kiss at the hospital, he hadn’t once laid a finger on her. It was so unlike him that the only possible explanation was that he just didn’t find her attractive any more.

But Jake was right and she wasn’t going to give up without a fight.

She bit her lip and mentally ran through the contents of her wardrobe.

The situation merited something new. Something sexy and feminine. There was a little boutique not far from the hospital. If she spoke to Nicky and skipped food, she should just about have time at lunchtime.

Alessandro poured himself a coffee and ran a hand over his rough jaw.

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