True Love by Brenda Jackson

Author:Brenda Jackson [Jackson, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, General
ISBN: 9780373831272
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2000-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

It was a good sound, Nicholas thought, and instinctively moved

his body closer to it. It was a sound he was not used to hearing

—one of a woman sleeping in his arms.

He lay on his side while he held Shayla, watching her sleep,

listening to the sound of her soft even breathing, and thinking that

once again he had broken another rule with her. He had made it

a point never to spend the night at a woman’s place. He

preferred sleeping in his own bed. That had been Olivia’s one

pet peeve about their relationship. Even after a year of them

dating exclusively, he had not spent the night at her place, nor

she at his. He had tried explaining to her over and over again that

he detested the feeling of being crowded. He needed his space.

Yet, with a beam of daylight coming through Shayla’s

bedroom window indicating that it was morning, he realized he

hadn’t thought about leaving her bed. He doubted he could have,

even if he had wanted to. The slow lovemaking they’d shared

had literaly drained him. He had felt content just to wrap his

sated body next to hers and hold her in his arms through the night

while they slept.

When she shifted her body in sleep he reached out and once

again cradled her in his arms. He spread his fingers wide over

her hip, feeling a moment of intense possessiveness. At the same

time he felt the hardness of him stir from her body being so close

to his. He moved his hand from her hip al the way to her

breasts. He gently massaged them with his hands, thinking they

must be tender from al the attention he had lavished upon them.

must be tender from al the attention he had lavished upon them.

Last night he had been too busy getting Shayla into bed to

take a realy good look at the decor of her room. Like her, the

room was bright, feminine, and beautiful. Her bed covering, a

floral design, and the coordinating arrangements that hung from

the high ceiling added an air of spring to the room.

He glanced outside the window and saw it was stil snowing.

In fact, it seemed to be snowing even harder than it had last night

when he’d arrived. When Shayla shifted in sleep again, curling

her body around his, he tightened his hold on her and closed his

eyes, deciding that sleep was what they both needed.

Shayla woke up alone. She noticed Nicholas’s absence the

moment she opened her eyes. She didn’t move while she tried to

remember when he had left her bed. His scent stil lingered, so it

must not have been too long ago.

She reached out and grabbed the pilow where his head had

lain. Clutching it to her, she savored the masculine essence of him

and felt the heated intimacy of their lovemaking. He had kept his

promise. They had taken things slowly. Almost too slowly. By

the time he had given her what she had wanted she’d become a

mass of withering need beneath him.

A shiver ran down the length of her spine as she remembered

everything about the night in explicit detail. She remembered

every

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