The Last One Home by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-02-11T14:02:54+00:00

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By the time they moved from the sofa to his bed, Ian felt good about everything. Life was amazing and he wanted Ella in his arms all night and all day tomorrow. He needed not to waste a moment. They had an agreement and the agreement had a deadline. He intended to honor it.

Already, he hated Monday. It would come much too soon.

He decided not to think about that, to focus on right now—which was spectacular.

He pulled her down to the mattress and made love to her a second time. Slowly. Savoring every sigh he wrung from her, every moan, every sharp, indrawn breath.

At a little before nine, they both needed fuel. He called room service and ordered one of their fancy pizzas. When it came, he pulled on a pair of sweats and answered the door.

Back in the bedroom, he found her sitting cross-legged on the bed wearing his shirt.

“Sparkling water?” he asked. At her nod, he handed her the pizza and returned to the main room to get the waters from the snack fridge.

“You look good in my shirt,” he said as he joined her on the bed.

She grinned. “Royal blue. It’s my color.”

“Naked is still better.”

“Treat me right. You might get lucky again tonight.” Ella devoured her first slice in silence, but when she started on the second, she asked, “So how did it go today with your brothers?”

He knocked back a long swallow of sparkling water and considered what kind of answer to give her. With Ella, honesty seemed the wisest course. She tended to see right through him, anyway, when he tried to fake it. Just saying he didn’t want to talk about it wouldn’t work. If he didn’t want to talk about it, that meant something had gone wrong and she would want to know what.

She might leave him alone about it for now. But eventually, she would circle back around to finding out whatever troubled him. She considered that her job as his friend.

Picking a slice of locally crafted pepperoni off her pizza, she popped it into her mouth. “That bad, huh?”

He shook himself. “No, not at all. They were great.”

“But?”

One way or another, he would be sharing. Might as well get it over with. “Percy asked me what Glynis was like. I started telling him, and somehow I found myself babbling about my fragmented memories of how I ended up in a hospital in Krasnoyarsk.”

“And there’s something wrong with your talking to your brothers about what happened in Russia?”

“Not wrong, just...”

Just what? He had no idea what. He hardly knew where to go from here. But she looked at him so hopefully, eager to listen to his crap, to help him any way she could.

He made himself continue. “I mean, come on. It’s clear that they’re good people, the Bravos. And yes, I remember them now. I know that they’re my family, biologically speaking. But I’ve had eighteen years of being Ian McNeill now. That’s who I really am. Finn Bravo doesn’t exist anymore.

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