Separate Bedrooms...? by Carole Halston

Author:Carole Halston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Bleary-eyed, Neil raised his arm and peered at his watch. Six o’clock. Too early to get up, especially since he hadn’t fallen asleep until after 3:00 a.m. when he’d shed the damn pajama bottoms. An hour before that he’d peeled off the top.

Go back to sleep, Neil ordered himself and closed his eyes. It was no use, though. He was groggy and tired, but awake.

Buck naked, he headed for the bathroom. Modesty didn’t seem much of a priority since Cara was undoubtedly still sleeping. And in his dragged-out condition, a fig leaf would do fine to cover him. There was something to be said for fatigue in combating lust, Neil reflected, yawning.

A shower and a shave revived him to the extent that he wrapped a towel around his hips before he reentered the bedroom. A fig leaf wasn’t seeming quite so substantial a covering. The door to the living room was still closed and stayed closed while he got fully dressed except for his shoes, which he remembered kicking under the coffee table.

Quietly he opened the door into the outer room. No movement. No sense that Cara was awake. The front of the sofa wasn’t visible yet. Neil walked in his sock feet, skirting the nearer end of the sofa. He was braced for the sight of her and expected her to look adorable and sweet, probably curled up in the fetal position and covered with a sheet. Definitely covered with a sheet.

Neil stopped dead in his tracks and gazed hard in shock. No fetal position. No sheet. Cara was lying on her stomach, one hand tucked under her hip. Her nightgown was twisted and hiked up nearly to her waist, exposing a bare rounded bottom. Neil cursed silently and got down on his knees to retrieve his shoes.

Flooded by regret and apology—not to mention hotly aroused, Neil didn’t dare hang around long enough to put on his shoes. He waited until he was out in the corridor.

Down in the coffee shop he ordered coffee he no longer needed to bring him fully awake. He probably needed a tranquilizer more than caffeine.

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