The Sarantos Secret Baby

Author:Olivia Gates
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-03-07T06:00:00+00:00

Six

Selene spent the night in an unremitting fever.

Every moment of the day Aris had spent with her, with them, kept replaying in a loop inside her head until she felt her vital circuitry overheating, melting.

Aris—as she suddenly could only think of him—could have stayed the night if he’d wanted. He must have known he could have made her beg him to stay. But he hadn’t. Why?

He’d wanted to. At least, he’d wanted sex. Her body pounded its demand for him again as it relived feeling the daunting hardness of his desire against her molten core. Yet he’d still walked away. She could think of only one reason why.

This experiment he was conducting didn’t include sex as one of its parameters. As she’d said more than once, nothing to prove in that arena. Sexually, they were compatible, explosively so.

But…were they? Maybe he responded like that to any reasonably attractive female who had the hots for him. As for her reaction, it must be what he got from all women. He’d intimated that what they shared was special, but men did say things like that in their efforts to get resistant women to agree to their casual arrangements. But now, as he’d also made it clear, things were no longer that simple. Alex complicated matters. Now casual sex wasn’t in Aris’s best interests, or those of his “test.”

By the time the first strands of dawn filtered through her bedroom window, her turmoil had reached its zenith.

And she decided. She’d call him first thing in the morning. Tell him she wasn’t continuing this experiment. If he wanted to continue to see Alex, they could come to an arrangement. If the arrangement worked, and in a couple years’ time, if he lasted that long and proved to be a constant and positive presence in Alex’s life, they would discuss making Alex his legally.

She didn’t want to be included in this test. She had no doubt the part concerning them would either collapse dramatically or expire gradually. And she didn’t enter into endeavors she knew were doomed to failure, no matter the temptation.

At 8:00 a.m. sharp, she phoned him.

Seconds later, she heard a no-frills, classic ringtone. On the other side of her condo’s door.

Her heart gave one violent boom before it stumbled into a mad gallop.

Aris. He was on her doorstep. He’d come back.

She expected him to see her number, reject the call, ring the doorbell. But since when did he ever do the expected?

The phone she still had clamped to her ear clicked and his velvet-night voice poured right into her brain. “Kalimera, Selene. I hope you had a better night than the one I had.”

“If you had a terrible night, we have a stalemate.”

A dark chuckle, male smugness made audible, purred into her ear, vibrated along her already-strung-tight nerves, made her palms itch, made her press her thighs together. “And you’re going to punish me by leaving me standing on your doorstep?”

So he knew she knew he was outside her door. She wouldn’t ask how he knew, wouldn’t bother pretending she hadn’t known.

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