The Doctor's Secret Bride(66)
Erik chuckled. Cassie. He leaned back against the headboard. “Yes, it’s Cassie, but not for the reasons you think.” He sighed. “Cassie had these moral values. She didn’t believe in premarital sex. I kind of adopted them.”#p#分页标题#e#
She hissed. “So you’re saying we have to be married to make love?”
That didn’t sound too bad, he thought. The idea had crossed his mind, not only so he could have her without feeling he was doing something wrong, but because she had become a wonderful surrogate mother to his child.
Precious was happy, the happiest she’d been in two years. She loved Michelle and he knew without a shadow of a doubt that Michelle loved her. Michelle loved him, too, and she wanted to have his babies. So yes, marrying her would be a good thing, a sensible thing. And although he knew she would fill the hole in his heart, he wasn’t ready to take it that far.
“No, we don’t have to be married to make love, Michelle. We just can’t do it here.”
“We can go to my room. Mrs. Hayes is gone for the day and I don’t really have to pick up Precious for another hour.”
Erik chuckled again. “Michelle, darling, an hour is not enough time for me to make love to you properly and thoroughly.” He raked his fingers through his hair. He couldn’t believe he was having a conversation about when and where to make love to a woman. When he wanted Cassie, he used to just take her to bed. No discussions necessary. Marriage did have its perks.
He glanced at Michelle sitting in the middle of his bed. The cotton fabric of her shorts clung to her soft curves, accentuating the seductiveness of her swollen hips and long shapely legs. He wanted those brown legs wrapped around his waist and neck. His manhood stirred as he recalled the feel of her wonderful sable nipples cresting in his mouth and her moist, tight woman’s flesh pulsing around his fingers.
“So what should we do? Rent a hotel for a night?”
Erik stood up. “No. Well, yes.”
“You’re double-talking again, Erik.”
“Okay. I’m supposed to attend this gala in Boston. It’s an annual event for the doctors in the area to rub shoulders, and for their wives to meet each other.”
“I’m neither a doctor nor a doctor’s wife, Erik.”
“But you can be my date. And if you would honor me with your lovely presence, Michelle Carter, by the end of the night, you will be a doctor’s woman in every sense of the word. We can spend the night in Boston. What do you say?”
Her eyes lit up. “I say yes, yes.”
Erik stared at her eagerness. He was going to make her purr, and she would no doubt make him growl. His big bang was coming, sooner than he anticipated.
“When is this event?” she asked, anxiously.
“Saturday.”
“Saturday? That doesn’t give me much time. I have to find the perfect dress and shoes, get my nails and hair done—”
Smiling, Erik grabbed her hands and pulled her off the bed to stand in front of him. “You have two days.”
“I don’t want to disappoint you.”
Erik swallowed at the naked passion in her eyes. He brought her hands up to his chest. “You can never disappoint me, Michelle. I have faith in you.”
She bit into her lower lip and smiled at him like a teenager on prom night. “We’re really going to do it.”
“Yes, Michelle, we’re going to make love. Slow, sweet amazing love, all night long.”
Her lips trembled. “I wasn’t snooping, you know. Mrs. Hayes asked me to set out towels and make your bed. And that thing in the bathroom you walked in on, well I was just—”
A faint smile ruffled his lips. “Michelle, it doesn’t matter. But if it would make you feel any better, to redeem yourself, you can help me make the bed. It’s rather large.”#p#分页标题#e#
She giggled. “You’re telling me. I’ll get the sheets. What color?” she asked on her way to the bathroom.
“Surprise me.”
She stopped and curled her lips. “Speaking of surprises, what are you doing home? Aren’t you supposed to be on your way to Granite Falls?”
“The chopper was delayed. The pilot is picking me up at a local airstrip later on.”
“You could have called and warned me.”
He laughed out loud. “And missed the scene I walked in on. No way.”
She gave him a salacious smile that fired electricity through his blood. It was a feeling he wanted to experience over and over again for the rest of his life.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Michelle stared at her reflection in the full-length mirror. She smiled, pleased with her appearance. She was lucky to have found this dress at such short notice. Felicia, her new best friend, had taken her on a shopping spree to some exclusive boutiques in Boston, none of which Michelle would have dreamed of visiting a few weeks ago, probably never. Felicia had pulled the dress from the rack and insisted that Michelle try it on. It fitted her perfectly.