The Sleeping Beauty Bride by Glenys O'Connell

Author:Glenys O'Connell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crimson Romance
Published: 2017-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

He stopped reading.

They were delighted to receive . . . ? His jaw dropped as he realized what this meant. Noelia was Mimi L’Amour?

His pulse gave a little jump. Like just about every man in Marina Grove—in the world, for all he knew—he’d secretly glanced through these hot romances to see what the big attraction was. And he’d been, well, moved to say the least by the seductive descriptions of really hot sex . . .

Is that what Noelia, aka romance writer Mimi L’Amour, was used to?

Suddenly the fantasy ending to the evening that he’d teased himself with bloomed hotter. The image of her in bed, her hair tousled, looking sleepy and satisfied, leapt into his brain and caused his pulse to quicken.

Feeling guilty for prying, he slipped from the room and found the door to the bathroom. While washing his hands, he gave his image in the mirror a talking to. You’ve only just met her. Take it slowly. You know so little about her. Don’t scare her away.

When he returned to the kitchen, Noelia was loading the dishes they’d used into the dishwasher and generally tidying the kitchen. She gave him a searching look, and for an awful moment he thought his lustful thoughts might be written on his face for her to discern.

But she merely asked, “What was it you wanted to see me about tonight? You said there was something you wanted to discuss.”

Nate handed her the last of the dishes from the table, noticing that her eye was even more swollen and rapidly turning a painful looking blue-black. There was no way he was going to burden Noelia with the weird nighttime happenings at his house, not after the awful day she’d had. “It can wait. I think I should leave you to get some rest.”

They walked to the door, where Nate turned and reached for her. Their lips met in a kiss that sizzled down to his toes and all other points. He was suddenly hard and filled with a need for so much more than a kiss. He wanted to feel her skin, her soft curves, hear her moans of pleasure. . . .

Letting her mouth go with reluctance, he murmured into her hair. “We need to take it slow. I don’t know where this is going, Noelia, but I don’t want to damage it by rushing anything.”

But good lord, that was so difficult, when she was melting under his hands, so warm and so womanly . . . With a huge effort he contented himself with a brief kiss to the tip of her nose.

He felt . . . what? Real. That’s the word. He felt real for the first time in so long. And joy—another forgotten emotion—now gave him a whole new worldview.

The strength of his attraction to a woman he hardly knew—yet felt as though he’d known for years—left him buzzing with an odd mixture of joy and need.

• • •

Noelia took a few moments to catch her breath. She

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