The Wedding Charade by Melanie Milburne

Author:Melanie Milburne [Milburne, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9780263886306
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

JADE woke to the sound of a knock on the door. She scrambled upright and, hauling the sheets over herself, asked who was there. ‘It’s me, Nic.’

She felt her heart give a funny little start. ‘Um …I’m not dressed.’

‘I’ve seen it all, Jade,’ he said with amusement colouring his tone. ‘You’ve done nothing but flaunt it at me for the last week or so.’

She glowered at the door and then stiffened when it opened and Nic stepped in as if he owned the place. The fact that he did—or at least his family did—was beside the point. ‘What do you think you are doing?’ she said.

He came over carrying a tray with steaming hot tea and fresh rolls and a selection of home-made preserves. ‘I thought you might like breakfast in bed,’ he said. ‘After all, you had a pretty restless night.’

Jade frowned and angled her head at him suspiciously.

‘I … I did?’

He gave a nod as he set the tray down on the bed right next to her tightly clenched thighs. ‘I found you sleepwalking at about two in the morning,’ he said. ‘Do you do that often?’

She felt her face colour up. ‘How would I know?’

‘Hasn’t a previous lover found you wandering about like a ghost in the past?’ he asked.

Jade rolled her lips together. She looked down at the curl of steam coming from the teapot on the tray, wondering if Nic, like her father, thought there was something wrong with her, something seriously wrong as inside her head. She had walked in her sleep at regular intervals in the first few months after her mother had died. Jon had usually found her wandering around the house and had gently led her back to bed. After he had been killed she had started again, only this time her father had wanted her to see someone about it. She had seen the disgust on his face, the disappointment that his only living child was defective in some way.

‘Jade?’ Nic tipped her face his way with the blunt tip of his index finger.

Jade felt the pulse of heat pass from his body to hers. It was like a slow burn on her skin, making it quiver with a longing she could not explain. ‘NO,’ she said and sent her tongue out over her bone-dry lips. ‘No one has ever mentioned it. I used to sleepwalk when I was a child. I thought I had stopped ages ago but it must have been the stress of the wedding and moving and so on.’

He exchanged his finger for his thumb on her chin, using it like a soft brush over the sensitive area just below her bottom lip. ‘Sometimes I get the feeling you are not the person everyone thinks you are,’ he said, his eyes holding hers as his thumb continued its mesmerising action.

Jade disguised a swallow. ‘Wh …what makes you say that?’ she asked, annoyed at the slight catch in her voice.

His eyes were more brown than green this morning, reminding her of the shadows deep inside a forest.

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