Page 36 of Sweet Siren
"I can have cook bring you anything you wish. Eggs.Bacon."
"Hot oats with cream." She inhaled deeply. "Coffee."
He could not resist. He drew her against his chest and buried his fingers up into the silken mass of hair at the crown of herhead.
She sighed against him, her cheek to his chest like a long-lost friend. His first thought was that she trusted herself into his care. A shock. A delight. His second thought was how funny it was that his daughter was giving birth in a bed in that room beyond, and despite his own fatigue, all he could think of was getting this woman out of her clothes and into his ownbed.
She burrowed against him. "I'll sleep for a week after this baby'sborn."
He dropped a kiss to her forehead. "Stay here andsleep."
She raised her face and smiled at him dreamily. "I may do justthat."
And will you call me 'darling' again?"I hope youwill."
The far door to Lily's suite fell open. "Liv! Liv! Comequickly!"
