The Secret Between Them by Clark Lucy

Author:Clark, Lucy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

ELLIOT WAS JEALOUS of his children and the ease with which they hugged and kissed Sunainah. She reciprocated, cuddling them and making them laugh. Over dinner, she’d asked both children what they would like to do to celebrate Joshua’s birthday.

Elliot sat back in his chair and watched—it never had occurred to him to actually ask the children. Joshie was only turning two. How could he possibly know what he wanted? Yet by the end of dinner, all of them enjoying the home-made lasagne with crusty bread and salad, it was decided they would spend Joshua’s birthday at the beach, having a barbecue, making sandcastles and splashing in the water.

Afterwards, while Elliot insisted on clearing up, Sunainah sat on the floor with his children, Daphne fetching cushions for them all, and taught them some cute games with hand claps and singing, challenging the children’s fine motor skills. His daughter surprised him further when she presented Sunainah with a long necklace made from buttons.

‘Did you make this for me?’ Sunainah’s eyes were wide with delighted happiness as she put the long chain over her head as Daphne nodded enthusiastically.

‘At Grandma Liz’s,’ she told Sunainah proudly.

‘I love it.’ Sunainah placed her hand over her chest, over the necklace, her words filled with emotion. Daphne hugged and kissed Sunainah several times, her little face alive with a delight Elliot had never seen before.

Joshua crawled onto Sunainah’s lap, generally made himself at home, snuggling into her as though it was the one place in the world he was assured of complete security. It was clear that the children loved her.

‘I think he’s getting tired,’ Sunainah said ten minutes later. ‘He is starting to get heavier.’

‘His eyes are starting to droop,’ Elliot confirmed, rising from the floor. ‘Ouch.’ He laughed as his knee cracked.

‘Getting old?’ Sunainah couldn’t help but smile at his antics of putting his hands on his lower back and stretching his cramped muscles.

The smile quickly slid from her face as she watched him surreptitiously. The way the hem of his cotton shirt rose up, the way his khaki shorts dipped, revealing a strip of perfectly firm abdominal muscles. Sunainah tried her hardest not to stare. She was a doctor, for goodness’ sake. It wasn’t as though she hadn’t seen a man’s abdominal muscles before, but Elliot was not a patient and she could not look upon him in an objective, impartial light.

Her insides tightened, her mouth went dry and her body zinged to life in a way she had never experienced in her entire life. Elliot had a good body. A good, firm, hard, solid, manly, muscular—

‘Sunainah?’ His voice was a soft caress, one that held the slightest hint of male pride. She immediately raised her gaze to meet his and felt her cheeks suffuse with heat at the small, satisfied smirk on his lips and one slightly raised eyebrow.

‘Y-yes?’ She closed her eyes for a moment, unable to believe her voice had completely failed her. Clearing her throat, she looked just below his chin, focusing on his throat, but even that was bad enough.

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