The Billionaire's Bauble by Ann Montclair

Author:Ann Montclair [Montclair, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, ebook
Goodreads: 13329610
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Published: 2011-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

“I know, Mom. I have to go.”

“Have a good night’s sleep, Sloane. I love you.”

The words stabbed at Sloane’s chest. How she longed to hear those words from David.

Sloane had always expected too much too soon. She had been so loved, was still so loved. Her family wanted only the best for her, but they couldn’t give her the happily ever after she craved. Only David could do that.

Sloane finally admitted to herself she had fallen in love with David the minute she met him back in that bar two years ago. When he looked into her eyes and held her for those few minutes, he won her heart. And now, she’d lost him, had told him to leave and never come back. She was the biggest dolt in America, and she knew it. Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all: that’s what Shakespeare said. She sure hoped it was true.

“Good night, Mom.” Sloane closed her phone and buried her face in her pillow. She thrashed around on her bed, unable to get comfortable, unable to sleep. She kept wondering what David was doing, why he hadn’t called.

“Don’t come back,” she’d said, and she hated herself for being so impetuous and cruel. And after he had been so thoughtful, so kind. Sloane remembered how he’d been so tender with her after the car accident, how generous he’d been with the clothes and cosmetics, how easy it’d been when they made supper, and finally how vigorous sex had been over and over again. How could she have sent him away?

She considered taking another hot bath, to scald away the memory of David’s hands on her breasts and between her legs, of his long, lean body pressing so deeply into hers. She recalled how he fit inside her like a missing puzzle piece, and how when he wasn’t inside her, she felt empty, bereft even, a feeling she’d never had before.

Peter had made love to her many times, but never once had it been the epiphany David’s body evoked. David had brought her to climax more times in one night than she had ever experienced with Peter. Poor Peter. He’d been a fine lover, a caring and gentle lover, yet she had never been wowed by his caresses, had never lost herself to his body. She’d often faked great passion with him, and she regretted doing so, but with David it was real.

She threw the covers off her legs, and then pulled them up again when she began to shiver. She wondered if David was thinking about her. Was he as agitated, as bereft, as besotted as she?

No. David hadn’t been rash or indiscrete. That was all on her.

He was probably back at Grant trying to make that next big deal. He had actually taken a night off for her. Sloane recalled how surprised Tony and Maya had been when he told them. He did it to please her, or maybe he did it to get her in bed.

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