THE EX WIFE'S RECKONING

er should have

are skin. She stirred, muscles aching deliciously from the night before, she still had the remnants of their passi

ore. She was supposed to

cept for his loosened tie. His gaze raked over her, unreadable and intense, like he

gher over her chest. "You

knowing curve of his

eyes as she sat up. "La

ned. "Is that what you t

ry

r deciding to end things. It had happened before, their own twisted cycle of p

is gaze. "We can't keep doing this, Ethan. We

around her like a force field. "You rea

oring the way her body st

y curl from her face, his fingers

rough her. "I'm serious. You're engaged in your

voice low and lethal, "you were

doesn't mean anything." She s

sex, you wouldn't be looking at me like you want to run b

r way to the surface. "It doesn't change anything. We're

d. "We'll see." His

, shattering the tension between them. He did

rte

ion hardening into something dangerous.

ruthless, unstoppable. But there was something about the way his jaw tightened, t

owerpot beside the polished drawer which held most of the important document of

ollapsed sometime during the night. "Right. Back to

could walk past him. "Naomi", he

back at him. If she did, she mig

silent plea. "This isn't over." He

pulling free from his

folded her purple G-string into the left zipper of her bag, and walked ou

ing any underwear, ho

part of Naomi, she w

e couldn't shake the feeling that Ethan Carter wasn't done with her ye