by Sara Orwig
He met her gaze, holding it for a long moment before he turned his attention back to his friends.
As if she’d whispered in his ear, a short time later Jake offered nightcaps, which his friends both declined, saying they would turn in for the night.
She stood with Jake’s arm around her while the Coltons and the Warners disappeared upstairs to the east wing. The master bedroom was in the opposite wing.
When Jake turned her to face him, she wrapped her arms around his neck. “Your friends are wonderful. It’s great to see Ashley and Abby again and get to know them better.”
“Good. I’ve wanted to bring you here and get together with them.”
A log cracked in the fireplace, sending up dancing orange sparks. She looked back into Jake’s eyes and her heart thudded with joy. “I love you so much, Jake,” she whispered.
“It scares me to think how close I came to losing you because of my own blindness. Emily, I want to do everything possible to make you happy.”
She kissed his cheek, feeling the faint stubble. “I can think of something you can do,” she whispered.
Jake’s eyes darkened and he looked at her mouth. “Let’s go upstairs,” he said. You go ahead and I’ll wind things up here.”
“I’ll go slip into something I know you’ll like.”
“Just slip out of what you’re wearing and I’ll be happy,” he said. “I built a fire earlier so the room will be toasty.”
“Don’t take long, Jake,” she said in a sultry voice, her pulse skipping in anticipation.
He smiled and turned away to lock up. She hurried upstairs to put on the black negligee Jake had bought her in Paris. A fire still burned in the large stone fireplace at one end of the bedroom. The king-size bed was turned down and she wondered when Jake had come up and gotten things ready.
Eagerly, she waited, climbing on the bed and pulling the sheet to her chin. Finally he stepped through the door and crossed the room to the bed to sit down and yank off his boots. He turned to her. “Come here,” he said in a raspy voice, pulling her into his embrace and shoving away the sheet.
“Ahh,” he said in satisfaction, then stood, pulling her up so he could look at her in the sheer negligee. “You’re stunning, Em.”
She laughed and stepped into his arms, winding hers around his neck. “I have the sexiest, most handsome husband in the world,” she said, rubbing against him and standing on tiptoe to kiss him.
Jake wrapped her in his embrace and leaned over her to kiss her passionately, and Emily’s heart pounded with joy. She loved her tall sexy husband and she knew he loved her. She expected a bright future filled with a family they could nurture and love.
ISBN: 978-1-4268-2041-0
WED TO THE TEXAN
Copyright © 2008 by Sara Orwig
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