Wife With Amnesia by Metsy Hingle

Author:Metsy Hingle
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Six

The moment the words were out, Claire wanted to snatch them back. Too late she realized how her comment had sounded. Given the sexual sparks that had been bouncing between them like heat waves, Matt might easily misconstrue her meaning. Not that she could blame him if he did get the wrong idea. She couldn’t. This tension between them was as much her fault as it was his.

“Is that what you want?” Matt all but growled the question at her.

“Yes. No,” she said, confused.

“Which is it, Red?” He tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, skimmed the shell of her ear with his fingertip. “Yes? Or no?”

“I—” She shivered as he drew a line down her neck. Desire began to spin through her veins again, muddying her thought processes. She needed to be able to think straight if she was going to explain to him what she’d meant. But she couldn’t think at all as long as Matt was touching her, she admitted. Taking a step back, she slicked her dry lips with the tip of her tongue and attempted once more to explain. “I didn’t mean… I wasn’t suggesting that you and I…that we—”

“It’s all right, Red,” he told her, the disappointment in his voice mirrored in his gray eyes. “You don’t have to explain. I realize you weren’t extending me an invitation to join you in bed.”

Claire flushed at his frankness, but she forced herself to meet his gaze. “Believe me, it has nothing to do with me not wanting to be with you in that way. I do. I think it’s as plain as day that I find you physically attractive. And I like you, Matt. Truly. You’ve been so great about…about everything. But being attracted to you physically and liking you aren’t enough for me to be able to make love with you.” She let out a breath and looked down at her hands. The diamond and gold rings Matt had placed on her finger winked at her, reminding her this man was no stranger. He was her husband. He loved her. And she had evidently loved him enough to marry him.

“I guess what I’m trying to say is that, as much as I might want to, I’m not ready to be a real wife to you again yet. Not while I still feel so unsure about who I am. I’m sorry. I know that’s not what you want. It’s certainly not what you deserve. You have every right to expect more from me. But I…I can’t.”

He tipped up her chin so that she met his eyes. “Sometimes you just blow me away. I’m the one who should be apologizing to you. I didn’t mean to push you. I don’t want to push you. And I’m sorry if you felt that’s what I was doing.”

“Matt, you don’t have to—”

“Yes. I do. You’re right. I want to make love with you. All I have to do is look at you to want you. It’s always been

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