Every Move You Make by Tori Carrington

Author:Tori Carrington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

ZACH AWOKE before dawn the next morning, Mariah spooned against his front, his arm asleep from the awkward positioning required for them both to fit in the narrow twin-size bed. He pressed the button to illuminate his watch then gently retracted his arm from under Mariah’s sleeping head. She murmured something in her sleep and wriggled her bottom against him. His physical reaction was full and immediate, despite the hours they’d gone at it the night before. He briefly splayed his fingers across her hips and pressed her more fully to him, earning another low sound from Mariah. Then he sighed and quietly slipped out of bed.

Considering the noise they’d made last night, between the squeaky bedsprings and Mariah’s soft cries, it didn’t matter how soundly Hughie slept, he had undoubtedly heard what was going on in his daughter’s room. And Zach wanted to soften whatever reaction he was sure to receive by getting into the kitchen first and fixing breakfast.

He slid into his jeans, then realized he would have to go back to the guest room for the remainder of his things. Damn. He listened for noises on the other side of the door, then opened it. The coast was clear. He closed the door after himself then crept down the hall…and ran smack-dab into Hughie Clayborn coming from the opposite direction.

Aw, hell.

“Morning,” Zach said quietly.

“Morning yourself,” Hughie said just as quietly, then cleared his throat.

Zach squinted at the older man in the dim light. If he wasn’t mistaken, Hughie was wearing the same clothes he had the night before. And the undeniable scent of a woman’s perfume filled Zach’s nose.

He raised his brows, realizing that Hughie hadn’t caught him coming from Mariah’s room. Rather, Zach had caught Hughie sneaking back in after a midnight rendezvous of his own.

Here he and Mariah had been afraid of making too much noise, of waking Hughie up, and Hughie had been out of the house all along, likely using the excuse of calling it an early night to do some midnight creeping of his own.

Zach started to chuckle, then rubbed his fingers over the stubble covering his jaw. “I, was, just heading for the bathroom.”

“Go on ahead.” Hughie pointed toward a door down the hall. “I’ll, uh, meet you in the kitchen in a few minutes.”

Zach nodded and began to pass him.

“Oh, and Letterman?”

Zach glanced at him.

“What you’ve seen…this stays between us, ya hear?”

Zach was certainly in no position to censure the other man for his behavior, because he’d behaved just as badly if not worse. “Does Mariah know?”

Hughie cursed under his breath. “No. Why in the hell do you think I just asked you to keep quiet?”

Zach grinned and headed for the bathroom.

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