Surrender at Sunset by Jamie Pope

Author:Jamie Pope
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The next morning Virginia was in the kitchen placing fruit in the blender for her morning smoothie when she heard heavy footsteps behind her. Her breath quickened, but she tried to control it. She never saw him this early in the morning. Sometimes she would hear him in his gym, but he never ventured into the kitchen when she was there.

Except for yesterday, when they had shared breakfast. Yesterday they had shared a lot more than just a couple of meals. She’d told him that things would have to go back to normal. That he would go back to being her boss and she his employee. It was the right thing to do. Right for her professionalism. Her career and her sanity. Having an affair with an athlete while working on his house was just the sort of thing she would do. It was the sort of thing her mother expected her to do. She had to prove her mother wrong.

She couldn’t give into that temptation, even though Carlos made her body tingle with desire every time he came near her.

“Good morning.” He wrapped his arms around her, pressing a kiss to her neck. He’d tried to get her to go to bed with him last night, but she’d refused. He hadn’t pushed her on the subject and she was grateful for that because she knew she probably wouldn’t have been able to tell him no more than once.

He had been so good to her yesterday. The horseback riding, the kayaking, listening to her while she talked. That alone would have made the day perfect. He’d taken her into town when she knew it made him uneasy, buying her paint, encouraging her to do what she loved again.

Four people had asked him about his injury yesterday. Four reminders of his loss, four expressions of concern, four disappointed faces when he couldn’t give them good news. He hadn’t had to go through that. He hadn’t had to go into store after store in search of paint just for her. He had spent the entire day making sure she felt special. She’d just wanted to end the day making him happy. She’d wanted to give back to him before they returned to the way things were. But it had backfired because she had gone to bed unsatisfied, only wanting him more.

“Good morning,” she returned his greeting as he kissed down the side of her throat. Her eyes drifted shut and she lost track of what she was going to say. “Want a smoothie?” She turned away from him and switched on the blender, hoping that would distract him.

“No.” It didn’t. He spun her in his arms and kissed the seam of her neck.

“A smoothie won’t satisfy you? I can make you some scrambled eggs,” she said, her voice getting higher as her arousal grew. “I can put cheese in them. Onions. Whatever you want.”

He removed his lips from her skin and looked into her eyes with those beautiful dark green ones he had.

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