Cake (9 page)

He watched the ghost of their reflection in the window, the way her lip caught between her teeth. Wanton. Even as he had her, he wanted more. He knew even as he came that he’d want her again within minutes.

She tightened herself around him and he growled. “Don’t think I didn’t miss this.”

“You’d better have.”

She pushed back hard and fast, tightening up again and it was too much, he tumbled down, coming, his head back on a snarl of her name.

“You, back in bed. I’ll meet you there shortly.”

Pleasantly loose and filled with endorphins, she got in his bed, burying her face in his pillow, soaking up his scent. When he joined her, he pulled her close and she went, hugging him tight.

“Breakfast. Then gelato and then you have an appointment at the gallery to be sure the show is set up to your specifications. Your agent has looked in, but Kelsey says you’re particular about such things.”

“You’re laughing at that?”

“Nope.” But she laughed anyway.

“Are you going to be my keeper then?”

She snorted. “Hell, no. You couldn’t pay me enough to do Kelsey’s job. But I’ll be your personal keeper as long as I’m here with you. I need to go back the day after tomorrow.”

“We’ll both go back. How about I order up some breakfast, we have another round of hot sex and then we do gelato?”

“You drive a hard bargain.” She rolled to grab the room service menu. “But you have a deal.”

“By the way, did you know there is also a Ladurée shop here? On Madison Avenue. I feel I should probably shower you in macarons to make up for my behavior.”

“You’re really on the right track here, Gregori.” She grinned at him as he bent down to steal a kiss.

Which turned into a far longer interlude, but neither of them complained.

The story goes like this—while on pregnancy bed rest, Lauren Dane had plenty of downtime, so her husband took her comments about “giving that writing thing a serious go” to heart and brought home a secondhand laptop. She wrote her first book on it before it gave up the ghost. Even better, she sold that book and never looked back.

Today Lauren is a
New York Times
and
USA TODAY
bestselling author of over fifty novels and novellas across several genres. Though she no longer has to deal with Polly Pocket and getting those tiny outfits on and off, you may catch her in a nostalgic moment when the house is silent because the kids are all in school and she can get work done. Just a moment, though.

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ISBN: 9781743643686

TITLE: CAKE

First Australian Publication 2013

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