The Magic of Christmas (2007)
“Why was everyone suddenly so obsessed with him having fun?
First Chloe, now Lara. Only, coming from Lara, the word fun took on an entirely different meaning.
When Chloe had used the word, he’d immediately thought of rowdy games of catch in the park, sledging in the snow on Hampstead Heath, playing Monopoly in front of the fire, with Aggie cheating. When Lara had used it, entirely different images had filled his brain.
Dangerous images.
He remembered her legs in the fairy costume, long and slim,... her body slender but with curves in all the right places.
She was getting under his skin, Christian thought grimly, struggling against the hot burn of lust that threatened to devour him.
It wasn’t going to happen.
His girls had been through hell and they’d only just started to show signs of settling down. There was no way he was going to do anything that might threaten their new-found security. They needed life to be stable and predictable. They didn’t need their father involved with another woman.MoreLess
First Chloe, now Lara. Only, coming from Lara, the word fun took on an entirely different meaning.
When Chloe had used the word, he’d immediately thought of rowdy games of catch in the park, sledging in the snow on Hampstead Heath, playing Monopoly in front of the fire, with Aggie cheating. When Lara had used it, entirely different images had filled his brain.
Dangerous images.
He remembered her legs in the fairy costume, long and slim,... her body slender but with curves in all the right places.
She was getting under his skin, Christian thought grimly, struggling against the hot burn of lust that threatened to devour him.
It wasn’t going to happen.
His girls had been through hell and they’d only just started to show signs of settling down. There was no way he was going to do anything that might threaten their new-found security. They needed life to be stable and predictable. They didn’t need their father involved with another woman.MoreLess
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