Xenakis's Convenient Bride by Dani Collins

Author:Dani Collins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

SHE WOKE ALONE in the bed. The humid scent of a recent shower drifted from the open door of the bathroom.

Her whole body protested when she sat up, muscles aching from exertion, brain lethargic from heavy sleep. She couldn’t help a small whimper as she swung her feet to the floor and sat there naked on the side of the bed, feeling profoundly alone.

“Sore?”

She flashed a look into the dark cavern of the walk in closet, heart leaping in surprise. He was naked, but there was no reading his expression or even the tone of that one word. Concerned? Smug? She couldn’t tell.

He’d been insatiable last night, but there’d been something in his desire for her that had made him undeniable. She knew there was something in his name, his relationship with his grandfather, something that pierced into the very heart of him.

She had felt him trying to exorcise it last night, as he had immersed himself in their lovemaking, not taking, but giving, again and again. His concentrated attention, his words of praise and pleasure, had been reassuring and compelling, but what had really kept her as lost to passion as he was had been that layer of inner pain she couldn’t reach.

Succor. They had sought that together last night.

In the light of day, she still felt flaunted as something substandard, though.

She pulled the edge of the sheet across herself. It was a flimsy shield.

He finished pulling on his shorts and skimmed a white business shirt from a hanger. He shrugged into it as he came into the bedroom.

“I’ll start a bath for you. Tell me next time if it’s getting to be too much.”

She snorted. “How does that go?”

“You say, ‘Stavros, it’s too much. Go to sleep.’” He moved into the bathroom and she heard the water turn on.

She hung her head in her hands, thinking that he might be able to turn his libido off and on like a tap, but hers wasn’t so easily controlled. Not by her at least. By him... God, she hated herself right now, pleasures of the night notwithstanding.

She felt the weight of his stare as he returned. She lifted her head to see him buttoning his cuffs. He moved his sure fingers down the front of his chest.

“It’s because you’re Greek.”

“The lack of stopping sense?”

He snorted. “That, too, since I don’t possess any, either, but no. I meant my grandfather’s disapproval.”

He moved back into the closet, where he stepped into a pair of gray pants. He came out threading a belt through the loops, then stood before her as he tucked in his shirt.

“He’s the son of an immigrant. Loves everything about being American. My father was visiting relatives when he met my mother. She’s very traditional and wanted us raised in Greece. My grandfather wanted us here, so my father could help him expand the pharmacy chain his own father had started. They were developing laboratories, chasing patents.” He zipped and buckled. “There was a lot of push-pull between them.

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