Husband: Some Assembly Required by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1995-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

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Murphy slowly brought Shawna’s car to a stop beside his own in the deserted parking lot. The eight-story edifice at the far end was completely dark, a testimony to the fact that everyone in the world with half a brain had gone home for the night.

For the last few miles he had been aware of a dull buzz, accompanied by an even duller ache in his head. It had made him just the slightest bit nervous. But Shawna had drifted to sleep the first mile into the trip home and he didn’t want to wake her just to complain about it. Knowing her, she wouldn’t have reassured him, anyway. More likely than not, she would have insisted on another one of those iron lung tests. He wasn’t in the mood to lie still in a silver tube. Not unless she was lying there next to him.

He had his doubts about how still he’d remain.

The symptoms were probably just a leftover calling card from the altercation in the clinic. He’d be fine in the morning. Better than ever.

Murphy pulled up the hand brake and turned off the engine. He was tempted to just sit here and watch her sleep, but he knew she would be better off in bed. His, he wished. But he knew hers would be the bed of choice. And a solitaire choice at that. Maybe that was for the best.

Very slowly he brushed a kiss along her brow. She stirred and said something he couldn’t quite make out.

He kissed her again. This time her eyes flew open in surprise. He leaned back. “We’re here.”

“Here?” Shawna bolted upright, like a jack-in-the-box with a delayed release. She looked around, slightly bewildered by her surroundings. The last thing she remembered was pulling out onto the street by the clinic.

“The parking lot by your office. We left my car here, remember?” He gestured to it on her right. She looked too tired to drive. “I could take you home.”

She shook off the last layers of sleep from her brain as she dragged a hand through her hair. “No.”

“You haven’t heard which home yet.”

Why did she find the fact that he never stopped pitching at her endearing? It was supposed to be irritating, the way it had been before.

“Mine,” she told him. With effort, she opened the door and got out. The cool breeze helped wake her up. “I can drive myself home. It’s only a few blocks from here.”

Getting out, he came around to stand beside her. “I could follow you and let myself be invited in for a nightcap.” He stood over her for a moment, just a man and a woman in a deserted parking lot. For lack of a desert island, it would have to do. “You know, the damsel in distress thanking her knight.”

She knew where he wanted it to lead. Where she wanted it to lead. And where she wasn’t ready to let it lead. “I’ll give you a rain check.”

He spread his hands wide before him.

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