What The Greek's Wife Needs by Dani Collins

Author:Dani Collins [Collins, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2020-12-24T18:27:12+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

LEON DISAPPEARED WITHOUT a word after his shower.

Tanja put Illi back down and slept fitfully, waking alone in the stateroom when Illi did. She called down to order Illi’s morning bottle, then sang to her as she changed her.

It was such a beautiful morning that Tanja opened one of the doors to the starboard deck, letting the fresh air stream in. They seemed to be at anchor, sheltered near a wall of stone with patches of greenery growing in the steps and crevices. It was stunning, the reflection nearly perfect in the calm blue water.

“Cythera Island,” Kyle informed her when he delivered Illi’s bottle. “Kýrios Petrakis asked me to relay that his team from Athens will arrive shortly—” He nodded toward the door she’d opened as the growing sound of a helicopter could be heard beyond. “Breakfast will be served on the lido deck if you feel up to joining them. If not, he’ll check in with you later.”

“That must have been an early start,” she noted. “I’ll come down as soon as I dress.” She was actually starving and anxious to get a grip on how things would proceed.

Plus, she’d rather not face Leon alone. She’d rather not face him at all. Their make-out session had kept her tossing and turning with sexual frustration and mortification. If Illi hadn’t interrupted them, she would have made love with him. Tanja kept telling herself deprivation had caused her to react with such abandon, but Leon had lost none of his skill or appeal. One kiss and she’d been right back to the crush that had made her so reckless five years ago.

What he’d ever seen in her remained a mystery. Five years of forgoing carbs made stale bread look really appetizing, she supposed.

No matter why they’d succumbed to impulse, the fact was that the uneasy truce they’d established was impacted. Tanja’s sense of who they were, individually and as a couple, had vanished. When she had been able to dismiss him as that jerk who had abandoned her, she had faced him without self-consciousness over whether he found her attractive or liked her. She’d been convinced he felt nothing toward her or he wouldn’t have left her.

With the memory of his hands sweeping away the blankets and his mouth chasing across hers, however, she was plunged into overanalyzing and second-guessing. She eyed her crinkle cotton skirt and pale pink sleeveless T-shirt with a wish that she possessed something more flattering—or at least had her old curves to fill out what hung off her like wet laundry on a rack. She was still very pale, her lips almost white, her hair fine and flat.

Was this the real reason he’d forsaken her? Her lack of appeal and sophistication?

Who cared? She wanted him out of her life.

Didn’t she?

Leon wasn’t as feckless as she’d judged him. He was infuriating in his lack of remorse where Zach and the loss of her father’s marina was concerned, but he’d explained enough that she understood better the pressures that had pushed him to act the way he had.

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