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‘He knows that I know what happened.’
‘What did you say to him?’ Abby shouted. ‘Matteo, you didn’t do...’
‘I didn’t do anything,’ he snapped. ‘He already thought I knew at the press conference. I just let him know tonight that I did. Abby, that guy swaggers around... I swear that he’s going to do whatever it takes to mess with your head.’
‘He’s already messed with Pedro’s,’ she admitted.
Matteo was right, Abby realised—it was no accident that Hunter was here.
‘Stay,’ Matteo said. ‘I’m not going to try anything.’ And then he shouted, nicely if that was possible, ‘I just want you in my bed with me!’
‘Matteo, you’re not always going to be around,’ Abby pointed out.
But he was the master of instant fixes. ‘Let’s just get through tonight.’
Matteo was shaken, in a way that he never had been about another.
Sex really was the last thing on his mind tonight.
It wasn’t anything to do with that.
In fact, for Matteo, it was more concerning than that, because when he stripped off and got into bed, he just needed her skin beside his.
Abby stood there as Matteo stripped off.
Completely.
She guessed it wouldn’t enter his head to get into bed any other way.
She could ask for pillows between them, or get into bed, her robe tied and her reluctance evident, only she wasn’t reluctant.
It was her feelings for Matteo that scared her.
Not him.
She took off her robe and got in beside him and he switched off the light and just rolled into her.
He kissed her shoulder, the back of her hair and he ran a hand the length of her thigh and to her waist and then the thump, thump of his heart slowed and Abby lay there, listening to him sleeping with his hand resting on her stomach.
Abby slowly acclimatised to the feeling of sharing a bed with someone. She kept waiting for his hand to move, or for Matteo to change his mind about not trying anything. But Matteo was sleeping the sleep of the dead and so she found out what it was like to be held naked through the night with no expectation.
It was possibly the nicest gift of all and in that moment her world was the nicest place.
In the dark, next to him.
CHAPTER EIGHT
AT FIRST ABBY thought that she had jolted awake but then realised that the movement had come from Matteo.
He was still a
sleep but Matteo just had the familiar sensation of falling.
Only it wasn’t him falling from a tree this time.
He was standing at the door to an elevator and watching the carriage drop down with Hunter and Abby in it and grabbing out for the cable and missing.
Yes, he jolted but then in that same instant felt her warm next to him and knew it was a dream and straight back into deep sleep he went.
