Waking Sleeping Beauty (Book 2, Once Upon A Romance Series) by LeClair Laurie

Author:LeClair, Laurie [LeClair, Laurie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Laurie LeClair
Published: 2013-09-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Hell. It was a pure living hell. Marcus thought as he held his cell phone away from his ear. With his other hand, he jabbed the executive elevator button again.

“No, Mom, I’m not getting married,” he said for what felt like the hundredth time in the last week since the press ran with Mrs. King’s comments.

The doors dinged open and he marched in, turning quickly to punch the circle for the ground floor. Someone eased in beside him. Someone beautiful and sexy and with the most gorgeous blue eyes he’d ever looked into. Francie.

His mother asked, “Are you sure? It’s been in the papers…”

Nodding to Francie, he tried to focus on the conversation and away from her tentative looks under her lashes. The compartment moved, carrying the two of them down. “I’m sure, Mom.”

“You would tell me if you were getting married, wouldn’t you? I just love weddings.”

“I am not, repeat not, getting married,” he said it with a firmness neither his mother nor Francie could mistake.

The lady beside him glanced up quickly. His heart jumped to his throat.

“I’ll call you tonight after you settle in.”

“I’m not sure I’m going to like it here, dear. It’s not home.”

A stab of guilt shot through his gut. She wasn’t recovering at the rehabilitation center. She couldn’t go back to the assisted-living center. So his alternative was a nursing home— upscale, but a nursing home nonetheless. “Give it a few days. You’ll get to know the routine there. You’ll make some new friends.” Or would she find another man to set her sights on? He hoped she’d learned her lesson from Wilbur in the rehab center.

“Okay, dear.” Her weak voice faded out and he heard the click on the other end of the line. He shut off his phone and pocketed it.

Now, alone with Francie, her essence wrapped around him. Her scent teased him. He grew warm at the memory of her underneath him, touching him, rising up to meet his hips. He groaned inwardly.

Purposely, he’d avoided her the last few days, or at least being alone with her. He’d practically ignored her during meetings or enlisted Charlie to intervene on occasion now that she was back to working two days a week. But, it was while on the floor he suffered the most when he found her head close to another man’s deep in conversation, or the way the guy would laugh at something she’d said, or mother after mother brought their single sons in to meet her.

“When you stare at me like that, I feel like I’m going to melt,” she said softly, with her profile to him.

Marcus cursed, taking a step closer. Gently, he turned her to face him. She cooperated. But she refused to look up.

He brushed the sweep of her silky hair away, and then, with his hand, he lifted her chin so now she gazed into his eyes.

Deep, endless blue eyes searched his face as if trying to commit it to memory. “I’ve missed you, Marcus, missed this.

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