Harlequin Medical Romance April 2019, Box Set 2 of 2 by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

DYLAN HADN’T BEEN surprised when he’d awakened on Monday morning to find himself alone and the bed beside him cold.

For just a moment he’d thought he’d imagined the whole weekend. Then he told himself he’d go and find her in the kitchen, brewing coffee and burning eggs. She’d be dressed in nothing but his T-shirt, looking adorably rumpled as she frowned down at the scrambled mess she’d made of breakfast.

He’d pull her back against his chest and slide his hands beneath the baggy shirt where he’d find warm, supple curves and soft, slender woman. Then he’d kiss her neck and inhale the fragrance of heated feminine skin. At his touch she’d give a delicious shiver, before turning to lift her mouth to his. Then he’d kiss her, lift her onto the counter and press his morning erection between her open thighs.

But even as the image appeared he knew without being told that the houseboat was empty of her. Empty and quiet. And the prospect of long, languid kisses and lazy morning sex became nothing but a fantasy.

He’d think their whole weekend nothing but a fantasy if not for the scent of her on his sheets—and on his skin, he thought, sniffing his arm. She’d burrowed beneath it, dug sharp claws into his gut and chest and left without a thought.

Anger moved through him as it dawned on him just how empty his life was when he’d thought himself content. He had an amazing family who loved him and a career on the fast track. His professional life was busy and fulfilling and—he cursed and shoved a shaky hand through his hair—his personal life sucked.

Damn. He should have known yesterday, when she’d become more and more distant, that she’d been subtly pulling away even as he’d tried to bind her more tightly to him—to seduce her with pieces of his life, with laughter over his fumbled ten-year-old attempts at being a cool man about town and shared intimacies.

Perhaps that had been what had spooked her. Dani was afraid of being truly intimate.

With him? Or with any man?

Not the intimacy of sex, he mused, stomping around his houseboat in a rare flash of masculine pique. Once she’d overcome her initial fear of disappointing him she’d been generous and wildly passionate. But she’d shared very little of her emotions or the real reason her marriage had failed. And it was there he knew he would find the answers to the mystery that was Danielle Stevens.

Her ex had certainly done a number on her, he thought with growing anger. He’d made her believe she wasn’t good enough, that she had little to offer a man. He’d all but stripped a vibrant, generous woman of her confidence in her own femininity and convinced her that she was better off alone.

Dylan had grown up in a house full of women. He didn’t consider himself a particularly sensitive man—he had too much testosterone for that—but he couldn’t understand the need some men had to break a woman down.

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