Title:
Keeping Secrets
Author:
Kiru Taye
Series:
The Essien #1
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
ISBN:
9781916475526
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Have
you ever loved someone and didn’t even know it?
That’s
the dilemma facing Felix Essien when he wakes from a coma to find he is married
to the most beautiful and sensual woman he’s ever known. He cannot remember her
or their wedding; he who had sworn never to get married or to give his heart to
another. Yet, he feels an intense bond with her that he intends to explore
fully.
Ebony can’t believe her good fortune when her paper husband wakes not remembering the temporary marriage arrangement with no intimacies he’d proposed, and is now the adoring husband she’s always dreamt of.
She plans to make the most of the passion blossoming between them. However, would he still feel that way when he regains his memory and realises she’s been keeping secrets and their marriage is not what he thinks it is?
EXCERPT
"That
shouldn't have happened." Her whispery voice sounded strained.
Disappointment
punched his gut. Scrubbing a hand over his face, he dropped his head and closed
his eyes.
"Why?"
The one-word query torn from his lips, grated over open sores.
"You
said..."
Head
lifted and eyes opened, he stared at her stiffened back, her green
gold-embroidered tunic draped over round hips and thighs in skinny black denim.
Those bum cheeks had cushioned his thighs moments ago. Staring at them now, his
arousal spiked.
If he
pulled her back into his arms, would she let him spread her out on the bed and
taste everything she had to offer?
Not
by the way she shunned him with her back and arms wrapped around her mid-riff.
"Ebony."
Her name rolled off his lips, an entreaty.
"Felix,
I can't do this."
Bending
her knees, she picked up the discarded book, tote and walked toward the door.
"Wait."
Desperation.
Pride. Sheers bullheadedness. Whatever. Something made him stand despite
doctor's warning against it without support. Pain shot up his body. Sweat
beaded his forehead.
He
swayed, grabbed the bar at the bottom of the bed to steady as support.
Ebony
swivelled, eyes wide as saucers.
"Felix!
What are you doing?"
"I
can't let you leave just like that," he gritted past the pain turning his
body feverish. "Don't go. Please."
The
cooled air from the air-conditioners had no effect on him. Perspiration dripped
down his face and back.
"I'll
stay. Please sit down."
"You
first." He nodded to the chair she'd vacated.
She
complied, placing her bag on her lap like some kind of shield to protect
against him. At least that's how it seemed to him as he lowered his body back
onto the bed.
A
ragged breath whooshed out of him and his eyes watered in relief as the pain
receded.
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