Best Friend to Doctor Right by Ann Mcintosh

Author:Ann Mcintosh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-04-02T11:40:24+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

HE’D HOPED SHE wouldn’t notice or, even if she did, wouldn’t comment, but once she had Kiah knew he couldn’t let her go on believing it was just an automatic reaction on his part. That if it were anyone else, his body would respond the same way. Not after the conversation they’d had on the beach, when she’d told him the disgusting things her ex had said.

No. Mina needed to know she was still as desirable as she’d ever been.

To him even more so than ever before.

Seeing her every day over these past weeks, in all her various moods—vulnerable and confident, laughing, crying, and everything in between—had been an emotional revelation. For so long he’d pushed his attraction to her down deep, refusing to let it grow beyond the treasured friendship. Distance had made that easier, but now there was, literally, no hiding from the truth.

He wanted her, badly.

Mina hadn’t responded verbally to his words, but he could feel her rib cage rising and falling rapidly beneath his hands, and her stillness was, in itself, telling. Kiah could almost hear the wheels turning in her head, and it worried him.

Had he frightened or repulsed her? Was their relationship, so carefully nurtured and vastly important to him, in jeopardy, now that she realized his lust for her?

Then she shook her head, just once, against his neck and said, “I know you don’t really mean that.”

He snorted, wishing he could find the situation more amusing than he actually did. “I mean every word. I’m not fifteen, and I don’t get aroused as though I were. Ask Niesha, and she’ll tell you she got no reaction from me, although she tried her level best.”

Reaching down, he tipped her chin up so he could meet her gaze.

“You think I was kidding when I told you how beautiful you are? I wasn’t. And I could have added the fact you’re incredibly sexy. I’ve always thought so, and having you around has reminded me just how much.”

Color tinged her cheeks, and that made him chuckle.

“You’re blushing,” he said, reaching up to run his index finger over her overheated skin. “I haven’t seen that in a while.”

“I haven’t been called sexy in a while,” she retorted. “Actually, in forever.”

Kiah kissed his teeth, once more annoyed at the thought of how poorly she’d been treated by her scumbag ex.

“You should know it, though. Don’t you notice how men look at you? At the club, the hospital, on the beach yesterday? There’s an air about you, Mina—sultry and sassy and sexy, all combined to make you irresistible.”

It was her turn to make an incredulous noise. “You’ve never had a problem resisting me.”

“Our friendship has always been too important to gunk up with sex,” he said, trying to be honest without giving too much away. “Losing you because we slept together and it didn’t end well wasn’t a chance I was willing to take.”

Her gaze searched his, and although her lips quirked into a ghost of a smile, her eyes were solemn.

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