The Maid's Best Kept Secret by Abby Green

Author:Abby Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-05-08T15:18:55+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

NIKOS’S HANDS TIGHTENED on the sink. He took a deep breath. The door opened behind him.

‘Nikos?’

He lifted his head, saw Maggie reflected behind him in the mirror. Her hair was a vivid splash of red and gold against the white marble of the bathroom. He turned around. He still felt shaky, as if a layer of skin had been peeled away.

Maggie came further in and Nikos wanted to tell her not to come any closer. Because he knew what he needed right now, to eclipse this pervading spread of vulnerability, and it was something only she could give him.

Even that unsettling revelation wasn’t enough to jolt him out of this mood, so he said nothing. He let her keep coming. Closer. Like Red Riding Hood approaching the big bad wolf.

She was frowning. ‘What was that, Nikos? You looked like you’d seen a ghost.’

‘Is Daniel okay?’ he asked.

She frowned again. ‘He’s fine. He’s already asleep. Nikos, you didn’t hurt him.’

He shook his head. ‘It wasn’t that... I just...’

‘What was it?’

Nikos put up a hand. ‘You shouldn’t come any closer.’

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