Family Bonds- Ava and Seth (Amore Island Book 5) by Natalie Ann

Author:Natalie Ann [Ann, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-03T23:00:00+00:00

19

What He Lost

The next morning Seth rolled over and saw Ava still sound asleep on her side in his T-shirt. He looked at the clock and noticed it was only seven. For the first night with someone else in his bed with him, he slept like a baby.

He’d never been one to snuggle into sleep and it seemed Ava wasn’t either.

Sure, they’d made use of their alone time and got a few more rounds in before both falling into an exhausted slumber.

He moved his hand across the sheets and then under his shirt that was bunched up around her hips. He spread his fingers out and tapped her light enough with his pads. Enough to tease, maybe a whisper of one, to see if she’d wake up.

She made a grunting sound, not a pleasant one either, and he stilled and smiled. When she flopped over on her back, he let his fingers go to work more on her flat belly.

She had one hell of a body on her. Thin and toned, but not a lot of muscle, enough to know that she did some kind of activity but didn’t live and breathe by it or skate by on her good genetics.

He suspected that would cause some jealousy with people too if she did. Women could be harsh, he knew. He’d seen it with Ellen’s half-sisters. One from her mother and one from her father. Both were spoiled and almost nasty to Ellen at times in life.

No, he didn’t say those things to Ava because they weren’t relevant. Ellen was five when her parents divorced. She was seven years older than one half-sister, eight years older than the other. She had a half-brother she was ten years older than. No one was close with her and he was almost thankful for that making it easier for her to walk away.

He hoped she had no regrets. Then he wondered how many times he’d lain awake in bed wondering what Ellen’s last thoughts were.

He had to remind himself that she lost consciousness in the ambulance and never regained it. She’d been bleeding internally in her uterus with the placenta blocking her cervix and no one knew how long it’d been going on that day.

Ava had wondered if he had demons. He knew that. He wouldn’t lie either when she’d asked him once.

There were days he thought too much of what he lost and wondered why it happened to him. Then there were times he told himself he had to move on and push forward for his daughter. As long as Adele was happy, that was all that mattered.

But he was learning that wasn’t all that mattered. That he deserved to be happy too.

And right now, he was. The woman in his bed next to him was everything he could have asked for and he was stunned how it came about.

He opened his hand up, spread it out on her stomach, covering most of it. She sure was small and he liked that in a woman.

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