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Название: The Wedding Party And Holiday Escapes Ultimate Collection
Автор: Кейт Хьюит
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Контркультура
Серия: Mills & Boon e-Book Collections
isbn: 9781474067744
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He’d never kissed her full on the mouth before. He’d always aimed for brotherly, and nailed it. Cheek kisses were good—they encouraged restraint. He and Lena had never practised anything but restraint when it came to kissing.
‘Just one,’ she murmured, her eyes grave on his.
‘Lena—’
‘It’s not every day a woman gets to repeat her first kiss.’
‘You can’t remember any kisses?’
‘Nope. First kiss. Going once... Going twice...’
Oh, hell.
He didn’t wait to be asked a third time. He did try and do their first kiss justice—starting slow, keeping his hunger in check. No tongue, just the press of his lips against hers and those lips of hers were warmer and more willing than he’d ever imagined, and soft...so soft...
No tongue whatsoever until she flicked at the seam of his lips and tempted them open, and curled her tongue around his. And then he slanted his lips and deepened the kiss just a little. He tried to quieten her slick, darting tongue with the long slow slide of his as he learned her taste and committed it to memory. He tried to ignore just how well that smart mouth of hers matched his, but it fitted—it fitted so perfect and true that he lost himself for a moment, just surrendered all thought and took what he’d always wanted.
* * *
Lena couldn’t believe she’d forgotten this man’s kisses. Because they were everything she’d ever imagined kisses would be, from that first slow sweet slide to the all-consuming hunger that raced through her now. They’d done this before. How else could it be so perfect?
She’d known he was a big man—her memory might be faulty but there was nothing wrong with her eyes. What she hadn’t understood was how much she gloried in his size and all that ruthlessly controlled strength looming over her. So much of him to explore and she wrenched her lips away from that too knowing mouth and set lips and teeth to his jaw instead.
A shudder swept through him and he groaned, more responsive than she could have ever dared wish for. She turned her lips to the strong cords of his neck and he cursed, even as he urged her closer.
‘Now I remember why I married you,’ she whispered against his skin and he trembled some more.
‘Lena—’
‘Mmm?’
‘Lena, please.’ Anyone would think she was torturing him. ‘You have to stop. I have to stop. Please.’
Oh, he begged so pretty. A hot lick of power rushed over her, and she wondered what else he might beg for. What she might demand of him if she but had the courage to ask.
He kissed her again, hard and fast and ruthless, and then he was off the bed with a speed that surprised her, looking everywhere but back at her as he found his phone and slid those giant feet into his shoes. ‘You need to rest and recover,’ he muttered and headed for the door. ‘And I need to make a couple of calls.’
Trig paced the length of the hall as he waited for Damon to pick up. He didn’t want to talk to Damon, he wanted Damon’s wife Ruby on the other end of the line, but there was a protocol involved when ringing up someone else’s wife in the middle of the night and Trig wanted to observe it.
‘This better be good,’ said Damon when he finally picked up.
‘It is. Put Ruby on. I need her advice.’
‘About what?’
‘You don’t want to know.’
‘I do want to know.’
‘Your sister took a fall today and hit her head.’
‘I’m putting you on speaker phone.’ Nothing but tight concern in Damon’s voice now.
‘She’s had an MRI and the doctors saw nothing to concern them. They’ve released her from the hospital, but she has concussion and some memory loss.’ He paused and wondered how best to deliver this next bit. ‘She thinks we’re married.’
He thought he heard scuffling and Ruby’s low laughter, and then Ruby’s voice came through warm and smoothly amused. ‘How did that happen?’
‘Lena had no ID when we got to the hospital and I had all mine. Easier to claim her and get her in front of a doctor and think about other consequences later. Ruby, she doesn’t even remember Jared. She thinks we’re on our honeymoon. She’s back in the room. She thinks we share a bed! Do you have any idea how much I want to share that bed?’ His voice had risen an octave or two.
‘Touch my sister under those conditions and I will gut you,’ said Damon.
‘Don’t threaten him,’ muttered Ruby. ‘How is that helpful?’
‘He doesn’t need to threaten me. If I take her now, I’ll gut myself. She keeps getting me to hold her, Ruby. She wants the reassurance. She thinks she’s my wife. You’re a wife. What do I do?’
‘You hold her, you moron.’
‘Dead moron,’ added Damon.
‘What if she doesn’t get her memory back? What if she wakes up in the morning and still thinks she’s Mrs Lena Sinclair?’
‘Got a nice ring to it,’ said Ruby.
‘Not helping.’
‘Trig, sweetie. If Lena still thinks she’s married to you in the morning, head on home to the beach house and we’ll meet you there. Stay married, at least in Lena’s eyes. Bring her home. That’s my advice.’
‘I can do that.’
‘We know you can. That’s why no one here is pacing around the room like a lunatic.’ Ruby’s voice had softened. ‘Adrian, honey, give Lena a cuddle if she needs one—no one’s going to castrate you for that, not even Lena when her memory returns. Just don’t let the fairy tale get out of hand. Tell her you want to wait until she’s fully recovered before you initiate marital relations. That’s the truth anyway, isn’t it? There has to be some reason you haven’t made your move yet.’
‘Does fear of rejection count?’
‘We all own that one,’ said Ruby dryly. ‘Don’t go thinking you’re special.’
‘Not special,’ he said.
‘But very worthy,’ said Ruby quickly. ‘Just because you shouldn’t be making your move on Lena now, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be making one at all. Move, by all means. We all want to see that.’
‘You do?’ He’d never really broached the subject of his feelings for Lena with any of her siblings before, but he wanted their approval. Jared’s most of all. СКАЧАТЬ