Unwrapping His New York Innocent (Mills & Boon Modern) (Billion-Dollar Christmas Confessions, Book 1) by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice [Rice, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2022-09-30T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

‘HEY, YOU’RE FREEZING. Let’s head back to the apartment,’ Alex murmured into the spray of chestnut curls peeping out from under Eleanor’s beanie.

He breathed in a lungful of her scent—sweet, spicey and addictive.

‘Can we just watch the sunset?’ she asked, relaxing into his arms. She pointed across the park from their vantage point on Bow Bridge.

The bow-shaped Victorian arch that connected Cherry Hill to the Rambles in Central Park had been featured in a ton of romantic movies—none of which he’d watched.

He probably should have been more wary when she’d asked about the bridge, but he was too damn exhausted and content to be cautious and so here they were snuggled up like a couple of loved-up newly-weds—watching a sunset, of all things.

‘I can see your penthouse from here,’ she said, with the exhilaration that hadn’t dimmed since too-early o’clock this morning when she’d woken him up.

She’d lapped up every experience today—checking out the window displays in Bergdorf Goodman’s on Fifth with exactly the same artless excitement as she’d had when meeting a former US President and his First Lady at last night’s party.

He’d found it charming and cute and hot as hell. Watching her tear up during the climax of last night’s show had floored him, the sheen in her eyes when he’d kissed her bare shoulder blade—which had been driving him nuts all evening—turning the pale blue of her irises into a rich sapphire. How could she be so open, so connected, so easily stirred by something that wasn’t even real? And why the heck did he find it so captivating?

All he’d wanted to do after that was take her back to the apartment and re-establish the only connection between them that was real. But he’d forced himself to take her to the after-show party, knowing she’d get a kick out of meeting the cast and the VIP guests. And needing to prove to himself he didn’t have to jump her at every opportunity. To prove he wasn’t so addicted to the endorphin rush, he couldn’t control it for a few more hours. But by the time they’d finally got back to his place, he’d been so desperate to hold her, to bury himself inside her, he’d torn the dress he’d paid a fortune for just to get to her soft flesh, to drive into her body and hear those staggered sobs in his ear as she shattered. And then he hadn’t been able to stop touching her, stop needing her for hours afterwards.

Despite his protests this morning, he’d been happy to get out of the apartment today. He was becoming obsessed with her.

But teaching her how to ice-skate at the Bryant Park rink—while tons of other couples did the same—strolling down Fifth and watching her freak out over each new window display, seeing her sink her teeth into a pastrami sandwich almost as big as her head and listening to her incessant chatter all day, the Scottish burr getting thicker the more excited she got, had been as captivating as watching her come apart in his arms.

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