Wicked Obsessions by Marilyn Campbell

Author:Marilyn Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2012-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Raking his hands through his graying hair, Drew smiled at the lined face in his bathroom mirror. You're not as far over the ridge as you thought you were, cowboy.

He hadn't stopped smiling since last night. It wouldn't be gentlemanly to brag, even to his own reflection. However, he couldn't help but note that in four hours with Teri he had more than made up for his long abstinence. The face looking back at him might be forty-one, but this morning his body felt more like that of a twenty-year-old. Just remembering what Teri did to get back at him for teasing her with the camera had him as ready as a storm cloud about to burst. He couldn't wait to rain all over that sweet little body of hers again and again.

She had him thinking about all the things he'd once wanted but come to believe he'd never have. And more than hungry, mind-bending sex, she made him think of holding hands in a movie, talking about the weather over breakfast, planning a vegetable garden, and balancing a household budget. All the ordinary doings he'd thought a marriage was supposed to consist of when he'd married Brenda were now within his reach.

He laughed at himself for being such a romantic fool. The shrink would probably have him recommitted if he heard his patient had fallen in love with the first woman who'd cried in his arms after his sentence was up. On the surface, it was exactly the kind of relationship he'd been warned to avoid. But Drew knew what lay beneath the surface, and it ran hot and deep.

Last night he had broken his own promise to wait until they were both less vulnerable. He had no regrets this morning, though, only a sense of extreme gratitude to the nosy detective who had indirectly pushed him into breaking it.

It was almost prophetic that Detective Kidder had left his post by the time Drew and Teri said goodnight, as if he had given up his crazy notions and was going to let the couple get on with their lives in peace.

There was no way Drew could give consideration to Kidder's accusations. To consider them at all would be opening the door to where those accusations could lead. Back to imprisonment. Simply thinking of such a possibility could throw Drew into a cowering panic—a state of mind he was intimately familiar with and had only recently learned to block by sheer force of will. As he had told Teri, he had to live one day at a time and hope for the best. What he hadn't told her was that his recovery was taking place on the very edge of that attitude, and he knew the slightest nudge could push him over once again.

It was much more pleasant to contemplate his next rendezvous with Teri.

Unfortunately for Drew and his rejuvenated body, he had two models meeting him in the studio first thing this morning. It would have to be business before pleasure.

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