The Pleasure of His Company by Lindsay Evans

Author:Lindsay Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Kimani Romance
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Adah made it back to her hotel on shaking legs. The cab ride there had given her enough time to replay every delicious yet horrible moment of her loss of control with Kingsley. She’d only had three drinks, only three, so it wasn’t much of an excuse. Just like the last time she and Kingsley had ended up together. She was weak for him. Inexcusably weak. Well, maybe it had been four drinks.

“Adah, is that you?” Her mother’s voice came through the slightly open door between their rooms.

Who else would it be in my hotel room? She thought the words but did not say them out loud. There was no reason to take out the result of her bad judgment on her mother.

“Yes, Mother.” She sounded like a kid again, vulnerable and guilty, but she didn’t have it in her to disguise her tone.

“Do you want to have dinner soon?” Her mother appeared in the doorway looking like she was on the way to a bridge game with the girls in a pale blue sheath dress and her hair braided in a high Cleopatra crown.

What Adah wanted to do was shower, then crawl into bed and stay there for the rest of her stay in Aruba. But she wasn’t going to be a coward.

“That sounds great. Let me just take care of a few things first.”

From the doorway, Thandie frowned, her eyes picking apart Adah’s expression. “Are you okay, honey?” She started to come closer, bringing with her the powdery scent of her perfume.

But Adah quickly backed away. She wasn’t sure she wouldn’t collapse under the weight of her mother’s concern and simply confess everything. “I’m fine. I just need a couple of minutes.” She grabbed her phone off the bedside table and escaped into the bathroom.

With the door firmly closed and at her back, she dialed Bennett’s number.

“Hey,” she said when he answered. “Can you talk?”

Adah heard a busy hum in the background, the usual chaos whenever she called him. He never seemed to be alone or unoccupied.

“Not right now. But how about in an hour?”

“Okay. That sounds good.”

“Cool.”

Adah disconnected the call and put the phone on the edge of the sink. She pressed her lips together and stared at her reflection in the mirror. Trembling fingers lifted to touch her bruised-looking lips, the flush she could still feel in her cheeks.

She looked like she’d just climbed from a lover’s bed. Hair messy and wild despite the braid she’d pulled it into only hours before. A bruise forming just under her jaw from the press of Kingsley’s teeth.

Between her legs was slippery and hot, and without closing her eyes she could still feel Kingsley’s touch, firm and insistent, between her thighs. A shivery pleasure undid her. She felt both loose and tight, like he’d sunk into the very being of her, leaving all of her sore and bruised and aching for more. Shame and regret coursed through her. Not because of what she’d done with Kingsley, or at least not completely, but because she wasn’t being honest with herself.

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