Out of Sight by Rebecca Duval

Author:Rebecca Duval [Duval, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Valley Heart Books
Published: 2020-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty Nine

It was a week of firsts. And lasts. Every day Isla moved through the rooms of Rosehill, finalising her inventory, and when darkness fell and Ryder left for the night, she and Ethan began an inventory of a different kind. Mapping each other's bodies in the glow of the candlelight.

“You know, the deadline for the auction is coming up.” Isla leaned up on her elbow. She was lying on her side in Ethan’s bed, watching him dress.

She should probably dress too. The sky had turned indigo, and she’d already spent two nights in a row at Rosehill, but she couldn’t bring herself to move. She wasn’t sure she was even capable of moving, after the three mind-numbing orgasms Ethan had just given her.

He dragged a grey t-shirt over his head. “I cannae believe you want to talk about auctions after that.” He raised an eyebrow and sat down on the bed beside her.

She smacked him on the arm playfully, but also to let him know where she was. It had become a habit now, for her to touch him lightly when she was speaking to him. A habit she struggled to hide during the day when Ryder was around.

Ethan twisted his body towards hers on the bed.

“I’m just saying, this time next week I’ll be submitting the lots for the catalogue. Are you absolutely sure you want to let it all go?”

He turned his face away, but not before Isla caught the flash of something across his face.

“Didn’t we already discuss this?” His tone was noticeably cooler, more business-like.

Well, that’s what you get for bringing up business in bed, Isla chastised herself. She shuffled upright. “Yes, but I wondered if you might have changed your mind?”

Ethan turned back to her now, his expression dark. When he spoke, it was as though he was choosing his words carefully.

“Why would I do that?”

“I don’t know,” Isla said quietly.

They sat in silence for a moment, and then she moved, kicking back the sheets. “I should go before it gets any later.”

Surprise flickered over Ethan’s features. “You’re not staying?”

Isla hesitated beside the bed. It would be so easy to say yes. Too easy. And all the harder for it later.

“I have things to do back at the shop, and besides, if I wear that dress another day in a row, Ryder is sure to notice…” she trailed off, her weak excuses hanging in the air between them.

Ethan got to his feet. “I understand.”

Did he? Isla doubted it. Not once had he expressed any regret that their time together would soon be over. And how could she, when they’d agreed that it was only physical? It was only physical. They’d barely talked. But instead of cooling her desire, all the sex they’d been having only seemed to have fanned the flames, and Isla knew she was at risk of being consumed.

That was not how this was supposed to work.

Isla slipped her dress over her head. “Ryder spent all day today cleaning the ballroom, you know.

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