The Baby Came C.O.D. by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780373192649
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 1997-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

It wouldn't have been easy for Evan to put what he was experiencing into words. It didn't matter. Whatever words he would have used wouldn't have been sufficient. Wouldn't have begun to describe what was really happening.

Except, perhaps, the word more.

For kissing Claire was more than anything he'd ever experienced. Sweeter, sexier, more exciting, more seductive.

More.

So much more that it left Evan in awe. How could something as simple as a kiss make him momentarily forget everything else? His surroundings, his dilemma, the fact that the last thing in the world he needed right now was to become entangled with another woman. After all, if that little bundle from heaven really did turn out to be his, there would be her mother to deal with. There was a moral responsibility Evan meant to face up to. One that any lawyer he might have engaged would have cringed at. But Evan didn't believe in shunning his obligations. If Rachel was his, he meant to take care of her and her mother financially.

That didn't change what was going on now.

He was entangled. From that moment on, whether he liked it or not, Evan Quartermain knew that he had come face-to-face with his undoing and it stood about fíve foot three. He sensed it the way a parachutist sensed the thrill of his first jump a moment before he leaped from the airplane.

Evan jumped. There really was little else he could do. He wound his arms around Claire, pressing her to him, and he jumped. Right into the heart of the kiss. Right into no- man's-land.

And lost himself in her.

He deepened the kiss, savoring her taste, her scent, the feel of her body against his, and embraced his undoing.

The room was spinning around Claire. Shaking? San Francisco had never fully breathed a sigh of relief since the last earthquake and always slept with one eye opened. Was this another earthquake? she wondered.

It surely felt like one. If not one of the land, then of the soul. Rather than run for a door frame for shelter, Claire clung to the only thing that gave her stability.

The origin of the quake itself.

Like a blind person trying to see, Claire slipped her hands along Evan's face, committing everything to memory within her mind's eye. She wound her fingers into his thick dark hair and gloried in the way his body pressed against hers.

This was what that faint brush of lips had hinted at. Passion and fire, comfort and disquietude. In short, a one-stop haven for everything.

Somewhere, from a galaxy far, far away, a small voice called to her. "Mama, Rachel's hungry."

Rachel wasn't the only one, Evan thought, dazed. Libby's urgent call succeeded in peeling them apart. Shaken, stunned, Evan drew back, too numbed to say any thing at first. All he could do was look at Claire in abject wonder. She was attractive—he'd been aware of that from the beginning—with straight, long blond hair, a tidy, athletic body that would have set any man's mind wandering and legs that would make his mouth water.

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