Harlequin Medical Romance October 2020--Box Set 1 of 2 by Charlotte Hawkes

Author:Charlotte Hawkes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

HAYDEN COULD SLEEP on a clothesline. Over a decade and a half in the army had allowed him to perfect that technique. But tonight he couldn’t even lie still. His thoughts were keeping his mind on a veritable assault course because he couldn’t pretend he wasn’t feeling this sleek, warm thing that moved around inside him every time he was with Bridget.

It was a madness, he knew that. Just as he knew he needed to put an end to it.

Yet he couldn’t seem to be able to.

The rational part of his brain tried to pass it off as little more than a sex thing. The fact that no man had ever touched her the way that he had done, had even slid inside her, meant that she had given him the most precious gift indeed. It was only logical that it should have brought out a primal response in him.

But it was more than that—more than just the physical. It was as though she made his life better, brighter, more vibrant, even though he’d thought his life had been just fine as it was.

And that was part of the problem.

It was making it impossible for him to distance himself from her the way that he should, because really what could he offer her in return? A life like his mother had led whilst he lived his army life as his father had? Who would want that?

Yet if he tried to explain it to anyone, he wasn’t sure they would have understood. How could they when his parents had appeared to have a happy marriage? And had loved each other?

Other people hadn’t seen what he had. Those moments when he’d caught the utter loneliness in his mother’s expression before she’d smoothed her face out and smiled at him with so much love that it had been blinding. He could still recall the first fifteen years of his life—Mattie was much younger, of course—when his family had moved once or twice a year, following his father up and down the country for each new posting and promotion.

He and his mother had felt as though their entire lives were a series of packing up, moving, unpacking, trying to make new friends, him trying to fit into a new school and his mother trying to find a new part-time job, finally settling in only to be told to pack up and move again.

But that was a road he didn’t want to go down. Not now. So he found himself sitting by the fireside, chatting with the locals about nothing less beautiful than the carpet of stars that shone so brightly over their heads.

He’d learned how their names for the stars and the constellations differed so greatly from his own, and how their changing, flowing appearance throughout the year corresponded with the water missing from the sky during the rainy season, and the sky refilling during the dry season.

In turn, Hayden had answered their questions on why the moon was full some nights, yet not even there on others.

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