Название: Under His Hand
Автор: Anne Calhoun
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
isbn: 9781408928530
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“How long do you think it took me to climb up on the porch roof, open the window and get in here?”
Dammit. She wasn’t going to be able to duck this or make it up to him the old-fashioned way. Worse for her, one hard, fast fuck hadn’t been enough—not in her sultry, stifling bedroom, not after twenty-six days without him, not after the scare of her life—so distracting heat licked at her skin while she tried to estimate how long she’d been in the bathroom, brushing her teeth. Thirty seconds? The American Dental Association recommended brushing for two minutes, twice a day, but she never lasted that long. She gave up and split the difference. “A minute?”
He set his teeth against her slick shoulder before replying. “Ten seconds, Tess. Ten seconds to pull myself up onto the roof, walk across the peak, open the screen and climb in. It takes longer to describe it than to do it. You didn’t even see me when you came into the bedroom.”
“You were already in the room when I came up? I didn’t hear anything,” she said, peering over her shoulder.
He met her eyes without expression. “One, opening a screen doesn’t make much noise. Any kid who’s snuck out of a house could do it. Two, as loud as you were playing Nickelback you wouldn’t have heard an M-16 firing. Not safe, Tess. Not safe at all.”
Sheer embarrassment heated her cheeks and closed her eyes as she turned back to the wall. She’d had “Far Away” on repeat for over an hour, ostensibly for background noise as she sketched versions of an ornate spiral staircase destined for a downtown loft. The developer knew her earlier work and asked for designs; if she got the commission, she’d create twenty unique staircases and add to her growing reputation for custom work. The payment would buy a new HVAC system, and put a little extra in the bank. But between Drew’s prolonged absence and the vulnerability in the song, the pages were half sketches of intricate decorative work, half rough drawings of his face in ten different attitudes.
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