Harlequin Medical Romance April 2017, Box Set 1 of 2 by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488022036
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

ALISTAIR COULDN’T STOP grinning but he knew he had to wrestle down the desire to beam from ear to ear before he arrived at the castle. If he didn’t, his joie de vivre would invite nudges, winks and comments from all the usual suspects—like the porters who’d say, ‘You’re looking happier than you deserve to, guv.’

And he was happy. Ridiculously happy, but no one at the castle could know the reason for his good spirits. Especially not Robyn. As head of surgery, she’d have his guts for garters and the Royal College of Surgeons would be none too pleased either if they got a whiff of anything untoward. Not that either he or Claire considered what had happened between them to be anything other than marvellous.

After making love twice—the first time hot and explosive, the second time deliciously slow but oddly more intense—they’d fallen asleep. He’d woken to find her head on his chest and her hair strewn all over his body. Normally when he had sex with a woman, he tended to leave her bed soon afterwards, but with Claire’s words—one night—clear in his mind, along with being in the neutral territory of the hotel, he’d fallen asleep and had slept surprisingly well.

He blew a few strands of her hair out of his mouth and nose, but his tickling breath must have woken her. She’d opened her sleep-filled eyes and a moment later—the exact second she’d remembered where she was—they’d dilated into pools of caramel sauce. It was as natural as breathing to stroke her hair. ‘Good morning.’

She smiled, although it held hesitancy at the edges. ‘Hi.’ She raised her head so she could see the bedside clock and then gasped. ‘No. Nine-fifteen? This is a little awkward.’

It should have been very awkward but for some reason it wasn’t.

‘Why?’

She sat up quickly, pulling the sheet with her. ‘Oh, you know.’ She gave an embarrassed laugh. ‘With the dawn comes the unforgiving light.’

He laughed. ‘You look deliciously sexy and sleep rumpled to me. I tell you what. We can always keep the curtains closed and pretend it’s still the night.’

Two hot-pink spots appeared on her cheeks and she groaned. ‘Is that a polite way of saying I have the remnants of last night’s makeup halfway down my cheeks and wild and crazy bed hair?’

He thought she looked beautiful. ‘Nothing that a shower won’t repair,’ he’d said, kissing her gently. ‘Tell you what. Let’s have a shower and some breakfast before we open the curtains and concede the night’s over.’ She stared at him for a long moment, her face giving away nothing. A stab of disappointment pierced him. ‘Or not.’

She blinked a few times before making a sound that was half laugh and half discomfiture. ‘Um… Al.’

All his life he’d been called Alistair and it was rare that anyone ever shortened it. If they did, he promptly corrected them, but there was something about Claire’s accent, and the intimacy the contraction implied that kept him silent. ‘Yes?’

‘The dawn also brings reality.

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