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Smiling anew, Tielle surveyed their cozy surroundings from the bed they’d been snuggled in for hours. “Sounds spectacular, but the people we work for would never allow it.”
“My people won’t have a choice.” His features tensed. “I plan on resigning my position after this nightmare with Faro is over.”
Incredulous, she pushed up to brace her weight on her elbows. “Grae, why would you do that?”
It was Grae’s turn to observe his ex as if she’d lost her mind. “Have you forgotten how much of myself I’ve given to that place?”
“But you wanted to please your dad…”
“Right.” He grimaced. “And doing that drew a line between me and my brother. Now it’s just the two of us and he hates me for it.” He saw the strange look she gave him and studied her with heightened curiosity. “What?”
“You just… You always talk about Faro hating you instead of you hating each other.” Tielle watched him roll a massive shoulder in a lazy semblance of a shrug.
“I don’t hate him,” Grae uttered simply. “He’s my brother. I wanted to kill him for coming between us, but I know he wasn’t to blame, and like I said, he’s my brother.”
Tielle sat up fully, trailed her fingers across his whiskered jaw. “And you wonder why I married you.”
Grae tugged her into a lazy kiss while seating her in his lap and squeezing her bottom through the sheet. He broke the kiss to speak the words into her shoulder. “You know we have to go back.”
She nodded. “I knew that before we left, but Des wanted me to get you out of there.”
“Ah…” Grae smiled and gave a playful frown. “So all this was pity sex?”
She linked her arms about his neck and toyed in the dark curls covering his head. “Do you feel offended?” she asked.
“Quite,” he lied.
She smiled, grinding on his lap. “I can tell. Do you think we can spare some time before heading back to our responsibilities?”
“Hmm…” Grae rested back into the pillows, the move providing Tielle with a nudge from the head of his erection. A knowing smile brought a curve to the heavenly sculpting of his mouth when he noticed her lashes flutter. He was sensitive enough to pick up the slight change in her breathing.
“We should definitely take our time.” He jerked her into another kiss. Turning the tables with ease, he put her on her back in the center of the magnificent bed they’d thoroughly used.
* * *
“Why aren’t you still gone?!”
“Shh!” Tielle made a slicing gesture across her neck and went to close the bedroom door behind Laura. “We don’t want the whole house to know we’re here yet.”
“‘We’?” Laura glanced around the third floor of the suite. “Grae?”
“In the cabana house for now.” Tielle smiled at Laura’s bewildered expression. “He thought it’d be better if he kept a low profile till tonight.”
“Why?”
“We both have a bad feeling about what’s in store.” Tielle twisted a tank top between her hands. “There’s been a lot of negativity during an event that was meant to be positive, you know?”
“So what’s the plan?”
“Not sure there is one. We only want to be here in case Faro…”
“And how do you feel about that?” Laura softened her voice. “You fought so hard to convince Grae to give Faro a fair shake.”
Tielle tossed the tank top back into the bag she’d been unpacking. “I’m trying not to even think about it, Laura. Maybe we’re just overreacting anyway and Faro’s next…surprise…will be to treat the family to a cruise around the world.”
“And if it’s not?”
Groaning, Tielle pushed her fingers through her hair. “Then this will be another in a long series of crazy stunts I once tried to convince my husband were all part of his own resistance to giving his brother a chance.”
“Honey, please don’t take on blame for another thing gone wrong.” Laura pulled Tielle with her to the sofa in the room’s living area.
