Triplets for the Texan by Janice Maynard

Author:Janice Maynard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

She actually did. Only someone who had studied her body as much as he had would have been able to tell, but it was legit. He stroked her stomach. “You do, indeed. A real baby bump. Congratulations.”

Simone rested her head against his knee. “I know it sounds stupid, but I was afraid nothing was there.”

“And you were deathly ill because...” He raised an eyebrow.

“I said it didn’t make sense.”

Being so close to her after a week of strained celibacy filled his body with a fine tension. He rose to his feet. “You still haven’t eaten lunch. I hate to beat a dead horse, but I’m not willing to see you back in the shape you were in before.” He reached out a hand to help her to her feet.

“I’ll eat, I swear. But Hutch...” She looked up at him, her eyes sparkling.

“What?”

“I’m feeling lots better.”

The look on her face spelled trouble for him. Especially because he hadn’t decided what he wanted from her or what Simone needed from him. “I’m glad,” he said, pretending to misunderstand her artless invitation.

“Are you going to make me beg?” She wrapped her arms around his waist and rested her cheek right over his heart—or what was left of it.

He’d spent hours wondering why this woman still had the power to move him. It was more than the past they shared, though that was part of it. It was also more than the fact that he felt protective of her as a mother-to-be in the midst of a high-risk pregnancy.

Even now, he was afraid to name the emotion that made him hold her close. He wouldn’t cheapen it by calling it lust. But he couldn’t say it was love. He’d loved two women in his life, and both relationships had ended badly. Maybe he was using Simone. Maybe she was using him. In the end, what did it matter? They were emotionally and physically entangled, for better or for worse.

“I assume you’re talking about sex?”

She leaned back and scowled at him. “Don’t be so stuffy, Doctor.”

“You still haven’t eaten your lunch.” Though he tried to stave off the inevitable, he was hard and ready. And he was pretty sure Simone knew it.

“Bring me the damned sandwich,” she said.

“And the soup.”

“Oh. My. Gosh. You’re going to drive me insane.”

He scooped her up in his arms and dumped her on the bed. “I’d say that’s a two-way street.” He liked carrying her. Some people thought doctors had a God complex. Hutch didn’t. At least, he didn’t think so. However, he would cop to being an inveterate caretaker. It was in his blood.

When he grabbed the food and turned back around, he stumbled. Simone had stripped off her top and bra and was starting in on the rest of her clothes. “You said you would eat,” he pointed out. It was hard to speak because his throat was so dry.

She crooked a finger. “I didn’t say when.”

Even a highly trained medical professional had his limits. He

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