Secretly Yours by Gina Wilkins

Author:Gina Wilkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Temptation
Published: 2013-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

8

ANNIE APPROACHED Trent’s door warily Friday morning, having no idea what sort of mood she would find him in. Would he be angry? Distant? Surly? Or, even worse, chillingly polite?

He wasn’t there.

A note was taped to the door. “Go on in. You know where to find the key.”

He had shown her where he hid his spare key several weeks earlier, but she had never used it because he’d always been there to let her in. She knew he’d left earlier this morning because he hadn’t wanted to see her.

Bone-deep weariness made her steps heavy as she carried her cleaning supplies into his house. She hadn’t slept more than an hour or two the night before. She’d tossed and turned, paced and fretted, and had finally given up on sleep altogether. Wrapped in a blanket, she had watched the sun rise from the rocker Trent had given her as she mentally replayed the kisses that had turned her whole world upside down.

Never in her life had Annie considered herself even slightly psychic. But now, as she struggled with her confused emotions about Trent, she couldn’t help remembering her hesitation before knocking on his door for the very first time. She had chided herself then for her weird sensation that her life would change when she met him; now she wondered if it had been some sort of feminine intuition speaking to her that day.

Standing alone in his house, she ran a hand across the back of the rocker that was so similar to her own. The smooth surface and satiny feel of the wood reminded her of how clever and skillful Trent was with his hands. She could still feel those oh-so-clever hands on her body. She could only imagine how much pleasure they could have given her had her clumsiness not brought everything to an embarrassingly awkward end last night.

Did he really think it mattered to her that he had some physical limitations? As many concerns as she had about becoming too deeply involved with Trent, his back injury was not one of them.

She cleaned the kitchen and reminded herself that she’d been engaged to a man who had no softness, no sentiment in him. She had emerged from that debacle with her pride and self-esteem in tatters. She didn’t want to go through anything like that again—ever.

But Trent wasn’t Preston, a tiny voice reminded her.

Leaving the kitchen sparkling behind her, she moved into the bedroom. The bedclothes were unusually tangled—as if he’d spent a restless night too. She swallowed hard before stripping the bed and spreading clean sheets over the thick, firm mattress. She tried to keep her attention focused on her work, tried to think of this bed as just one of the many she stripped and changed each day, but it wasn’t easy.

This was Trent McBride’s bed.

By the time she finished cleaning and left Trent’s house, she was exhausted. And she still had a full day’s work ahead of her.

It caught her completely by surprise when she ran into Trent at the law firm late that afternoon.

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