Harlequin Desire June 2015 - Box Set 2 of 2: Carrying a King's Child\The Wife He Couldn't Forget\Seduced by the CEO by Katherine Garbera

Author:Katherine Garbera
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Harlequin Desire
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

Olivia woke late the next morning feel both well used and well satisfied. She turned her head on the pillow and looked straight into Xander’s clear gray eyes.

“I love you,” she whispered. “So very much.”

She pushed back his hair from his forehead and leaned over to kiss him before rolling over and getting out of bed. Xander caught her wrist, tugging her back down into his arms.

“Stay,” he commanded, lifting her hair and nuzzling the back of her neck.

Goose bumps peppered her body. Oh, he knew all the right places, and he took his time exploring them over and over again. It was nearly eleven when they rose and Xander joined her in the shower.

“We should just spend the whole day naked,” he said, slowly soaping up her body and sending her heart rate into overdrive all over again.

“I wish I could, but I have to take my work to the gallery. I’ll be busy all afternoon and into the evening with the exhibition opening.” She rinsed off, then pushed open the shower door. “I have to do this, Xander. It’s my career now, my reputation as an artist.”

“Then go do your thing. I’ll find something to keep me occupied today.”

“You could come, too,” she offered, feeling a spark of hope light within her.

“Next time maybe, okay?”

Olivia bit back her disappointment. She knew it would probably be too much for Xander to be out most of the afternoon and evening, but she was reluctant to break the bubble of this new closeness they shared. She quickly dried herself then blow-dried her hair. Xander finished in the shower and then dried and dressed right next to her. Olivia tried to think back to the last time they’d been in the bathroom together like this. It was such a normal everyday part of life, and she’d missed it more than she realized as she teased him about hogging the mirror.

“You’re taking your beard off?” she asked.

“Yeah,” he said, lathering up with shaving foam. “I’m ready to be me again.”

Olivia’s brush tangled in her hair, making her wince. Ready to be him again? What exactly did he mean by that? She disentangled the bristles from her hair and put the brush and dryer on the bathroom vanity before sliding her arms around Xander’s naked waist.

“I kind of like the person you are now,” she said, pressing a kiss between his shoulders.

“You didn’t like the old me?” he asked, halting midstroke with his razor, his eyes meeting hers in the mirror.

“I loved the old you, too, Xander. But we’ve both changed. I like the person I am now better, too. Maybe that was part of the problem before. I was always trying to be something or someone else. Maybe I need to take a leaf out of your book and just be me again.”

She pulled away from him and finished her hair—the noise of the hair-dryer making further conversation difficult. The stress and worries of the day before still lingered too close to the surface for her.

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