One Night In My Rival's Bed (Mills & Boon Modern) by Melanie Milburne

Author:Melanie Milburne [Milburne, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2023-05-31T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

I WOKE TO the sound of the morning chorus of birds in the trees outside Grayson’s bedroom window and the hum of traffic and it took me a moment to reorient myself. The bed was empty beside me, but I could see the imprint of Grayson’s head on the pillow next to mine. My stomach hollowed out at the memory of all we had done together during the night. I stretched my legs out against the silky sheets and breathed in the scent of him like I was breathing in a potent drug I couldn’t resist.

But I had to resist.

We had made an agreement and I was not going to be the one who begged for him to change it.

I threw off the sheet covering me and began to search for my clothes. They weren’t on the floor where I had last seen them but were now neatly folded on the walnut chair. I snatched them up and put them on with as much haste as I could muster, given I’d only had a couple of hours sleep, if that. There wasn’t time for a shower, although I would have loved one. I had to put my game face on and get the hell out of Grayson’s house before I was tempted to pop a toothbrush in his bathroom.

I opened the bedroom door to leave just as he came in carrying a tray with a mug of coffee and some toast on it. I was in such a rush, I collided with the tray and the mug toppled over, splashing coffee all over the front of my dress. Lucky it was black—the dress, not the coffee, although that too was black—but the coffee was steaming hot, and I yelped and pulled my dress away from my stomach.

‘Are you okay?’ Grayson asked, putting the tray to one side.

‘You could have knocked before you came in,’ I said, throwing him a glare so icy it should have frozen him on the spot.

‘Last time I checked, it was my bedroom.’ His tone was as snippy as mine but then he let out a long uneven breath. ‘Sorry. That was uncalled for. Blame it on the lack of sleep.’

‘Well, that’s your fault too.’ I wasn’t angry about the coffee. I was angry I was so touched that he’d brought it to me. It didn’t seem to fit with the one-night stand arrangement we had made. No one had ever brought me coffee and toast in the morning, not my ex, not even Niamh, mostly because I was always up first.

‘Did I burn you?’ The concern in Grayson’s voice and in his expression dissolved my anger on the spot and opened the teensy-weensy crack in my heart a little further.

I released a sigh. ‘No, I overreacted. I’m sorry. You just surprised me, is all.’

He placed a gentle hand on the top of one of my shoulders, his eyes holding mine in such a tender lock my breath caught in my throat.

‘You surprised me too.

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