There was happiness all over this place. Anne stopped again in the shadow of a tree, smiling a little. Still pretending to herself that she wasn’t doing this on purpose, spying on the people under her wing, but she really was. Slipping from place to place in the gardens she had designed to be a r...
He pressed his hand into the warmth she had left on the sheet, keeping his eyes closed as he tried to marshal his thoughts past adrenaline and the shock of disappointment. He quelled his first thought – that she was sneaking out as some vicious little game because he had let her know how much he ...
Her eyes looked so heavy, he wondered why she had dragged herself out here. So disciplined she sought out a gym the first morning traveling? Or had she lain awake all night, tossing and turning in hopeless arousal, and now needed the calming influence? He grinned wickedly,...