Second Chance with the Billionaire by Janice Maynard

Author:Janice Maynard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

Ten

Conor wondered what he had done in a prior life to deserve this kind of torture. But denying her was not an option.

“Of course,” he said quickly. He suspected that her toes were as cold as her fingers. So he scooped her up in his arms and carried her to the bedroom. The large bed was mostly untouched. On Ellie’s side, though, it was easy to see that she had been restless.

Tossing back the sheet and spread, he laid her down gently and covered her up. After kicking off his shoes, he climbed onto the mattress, scooted past her, and leaned against the headboard with a sigh. The room was dimly lit. He yawned, feeling peace envelop him, despite his acute awareness of the woman at his side.

As always, the paradox perplexed him. How could he want her so badly and yet be soothed simply to lie by her side?

Out of the corner of his eye he saw Ellie wriggling to remove her robe. He held one sleeve until she managed the exercise. Now she was clad in nothing more than a sheer gown that was half-a-dozen shades lighter in color and a hundred times more provocative.

Though he could only see her from the waist up, that was enough.

He closed his eyes. “I would sing to you if I could,” he joked. “But we’d both regret that.”

“I don’t know that regret is such a bad thing. At least it means we’ve lived.” She took his attempt at humor and tossed it back in his court.

“I’ve lost a lot of things I’ve cared about, Ellie. And believe me, I’ve lived and breathed regret.”

“Your career?”

He stared straight ahead, his brows drawn tight. “Yeah.”

“I’m sorry about that,” she said quietly. “I feel like Kirby and I let you down. You’d barely been home from the hospital two weeks when we moved away. But most of all, I’m sorry for breaking up with you after your accident. I was so damned scared, and I thought if I gave you a choice of skiing or me, you would pick me.”

“We weren’t even really a couple,” he said, his throat tight. “No apologies necessary.” Those had been dark days. Though he’d never admitted it to anyone, when he’d been trussed up in that hospital—his body broken and in jaw-clenching pain—there had been a second or two when he hadn’t wanted to live. Even now it was hard to talk about it. “Tell me what you think Kirby will do in terms of picking a place to practice.”

It was a clumsy change, of course, but he hated the feeling that she was poking around in his psyche.

Ellie inched closer to him, though they were still divided, her below the covers and him above. “I think he’s leaning toward Miami. We’ve talked recently about buying a house together. I don’t want to go back to work until Emory is in school, but when I’m ready, Miami has a big enough international population to make my skill set valuable.

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