Dark Alpha (ALPHA 2) by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The bedroom was empty when Lucien came out of the bathroom twenty minutes later wearing a dark green silk robe over his nakedness.

The dinner jacket lay neatly on the rumpled sheets.

Clearly telling him that Nicky had chosen to leave?

Wearing what, he had no idea—maybe one of his T-shirts and some sweats? It didn’t really matter what she was wearing, only that she had chosen to leave him.

Lucien sat down heavily on the side of the bed, head bent as he realized he shouldn’t really have expected anything else. He’d behaved like a bastard again. That ‘arrogant ass’ Nicky kept calling him.

Nicky, Nicky, Nicky.

There was no other explanation; he really was totally obsessed with her.

Enough for him to know he would have to go after her. Again.

He lifted a hand to rub the tension from his throbbing temples, groaning his frustration as he ran that hand over his face before looking up.

Which was when he saw her.

Nicky.

Standing silhouetted in the open doorway of his bedroom, and dressed in one of the white formal shirts from his walk-in dressing room.

They stared at each other in silence for several seconds, brown eyes locked with green, the air between them crackling with a taut and yet thrilling tension.

Nicky forced herself to relax the tension from her shoulders, having already accepted that she was the one to blame for this last argument between them. That she was responsible for pushing Lucien into telling her to either go or stay.

She had asked him a personal question, when he had already made it very clear how he felt about anyone, including her, asking questions about his private life.

The sort of personal questions she wasn’t willing to answer about herself.

Knowing all of that, Nicky had chosen to stay.

She hadn’t quite been able to bring herself to sit in the bedroom and wait for Lucien to come out of the bathroom, though, and had instead taken one of the shirts from his walk-in closet—a room that was bigger than the whole of the sitting room in her tiny apartment—before going in search of another bathroom; she had needed a shower after their hot and heavy lovemaking.

Once she had showered she pulled on Lucien’s shirt, leaving the top two buttons unfastened for comfort. As neither of them had really eaten dinner, she had then gone to the kitchen to see if there was anything in Lucien’s fridge she could cook them both for dinner.

She found lots of ready-made meals in the freezer section of the American-style fridge—as evidence that Lucien did occasionally eat at home—choosing a couple of pasta meals and putting them in the oven before sitting down at the marble table to wait for Lucien to join her.

She had tensed expectantly when she finally heard Lucien turn off the shower, followed by the opening of the bathroom door five minutes later, and then—nothing.

Lucien hadn’t come out of his bedroom, or called out to her, there had just been that overwhelming silence.

In the end Nicky hadn’t been able

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