Harlequin Desire August 2018 Box Set--1 of 2 by Cat Schield

Author:Cat Schield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Outside Miriam’s bedroom window, snow fell as hard and fast as ever. It was a beautiful inconvenience—a minor interruption in what was an already amazing life. She had much to be thankful for. Something she’d tried to remind herself last night while she lay awake feeling complete FOMO about missing out on Black Friday shopping with her sisters.

It wasn’t the shopping itself she was mourning, but the time she’d miss spending with them. Dining out and then grabbing lattes for dessert. Juggling the to-go cup and a plethora of shiny shopping bags while one of them dug the keys from Wendy’s purse so they could find the car.

She’d tried to reach either Kristine or Wendy on their cell phones. No luck. There were probably wrestling a discount television away from a grown man at a big box store, or maybe they’d opted for an early breakfast complete with mimosas.

After sending a group text—Buy me something of high value with a low price tag!—and tossing the phone on the bed, Miriam pulled on her jeans and layered a few long-sleeved shirts for warmth.

The house was cozy. The bed was a dream. She’d slept great once she’d finally fallen asleep.

When she’d returned to her room with the water bottle, Chase had no longer been looming at her doorway looking sexy and slightly rumpled and thoroughly kissed. He’d gone upstairs, she’d assumed. The house was large enough he could’ve been literally anywhere save the room she’d just come from. He hadn’t said goodnight.

She’d lain in her bed and wondered if he was in his own bedroom reliving the smoldering lip-lock they’d shared in the doorway. If he still tasted her on his tongue the way she tasted him on hers. If he was considering coming back downstairs to sample her mouth again…

But he hadn’t.

And now that she was awake and en route to the coffee maker, she tried to convince herself she was glad he hadn’t come downstairs to finish what he’d started. Relaying those thoughts to her heart was easy. Getting them past her raging hormones and that irritating fluttering at the V of her thighs was another matter altogether.

It’d been a while since she’d had sex. It’d been even longer since she’d had really good sex. It made sense that the physical reactions in her body were shouting Hell yes! Her nipples had hardened and pressed against the T-shirt she slept in, begging for attention. She’d resisted the urge to relieve that pounding pulse between her legs herself, balling her fists in the blankets and squeezing her eyes shut. She thought about camp budgets and depleting rain forests and other unpleasant topics, but no matter how she’d tried to distract herself, memories of Chase—from last night and ten years ago—led the pack.

It was simply him. He had commanded her full attention since the first time she laid eyes on him. There was a pull surrounding him and whenever she was in his atmosphere she couldn’t keep from being drawn in.

“As evidenced by my ending up snowed in here,” she said to herself.

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