Questions of Trust A Medical Romance - By Sam Archer Page 0,64
as if reading her thoughts he murmured, ‘Enough. Enough waiting.’
His hands slipped to the hem of her shirt and swept it up and over her head. She’d put on a half-cup bra, something she’d never worn once since coming to Pemberham, and now she enjoyed the look of delight in his eyes as he gazed at her breasts, pushed up and half-exposed. In turn she grabbed at his polo shirt and pulled it up and off. His chest was lightly muscled, smooth with the faintest sprinkling of hair, his belly flat and taut.
Chloe rose on to her knees on the sofa, unclasping her jeans and pulling down the zip, then wriggling her hips to peel the denim down. As she leaned forward to kick the jeans off her legs she grasped Tom’s belt buckle and unfastened his own trousers, pulling them down. Beneath his boxer shorts the evidence of his arousal swelled towards her.
Their bodies joined, her arms winding tightly around his neck, his around her waist, and their mouths met hotly once again. His hands swept up her back and scrabbled with the clasp of her bra. He threw the wisp of lace aside and grasped her back with his flat hands, pressing her closer and ducking his head so that his lips and tongue could flick and suck at her risen nipples. Chloe moaned, long and deep in her throat, urging her body at her lover, wrapping her thighs around his waist and thrusting her pelvis against his stomach.
Somehow with one hand he managed to pull his shorts down, and Chloe felt him engorged against her belly. She loosened the grip of her legs on his waist so that he could slip her panties down her thighs. His hands grasped the globes of her bottom and she lowered herself on to him, both of them groaning as they joined. Tom sank so that his back was propped against the back of the sofa and Chloe moved astride him, rocking at first with a controlled rhythm but, unable to help herself, increasing the pace as the pleasure mounted within her until she reached her peak and heard herself cry out, his own climax melding with hers so that they were fused in a moment of extreme, surpassing joy that seemed eternal.
Afterwards, as they lay languidly on the sofa, her hair a curtain over his face, his hand slowly, exquisitely stroking her naked back, Chloe closed her eyes. She had a sudden vision of Mark, his face looking down at her from some undefined point. She’d had a vision like this many a time in the last year, and usually it was accompanied by a small storm of emotions: anger, and regret, and longing, and intense guilt, and the terrible sadness of recognising that happiness was gone forever.
This time, there was none of that. This time, Mark’s appearance brought her a sense of profound peace. Love, too, and the bittersweet ache of loss; but peace, too. And for the first time, she noticed Mark was smiling.
Goodbye, my love, she said silently. I’ll always love you. And now I love another. It is possible, you know.
Presently Chloe began to shake slightly. Tom swept her hair aside with his hand and peered into her face.
‘What’s so funny?’ he grinned, amused but puzzled.
‘I was just thinking,’ she said. ‘How long did it take us to get together? And how long has it been since we… well, we first decided we wanted to be with each other? And now here we are, alone together for the first time, and we still haven’t quite made it to the bedroom.’
He kissed her, long and playfully, on the mouth. ‘There’ll be plenty of opportunity for that later.’
‘Promise?’
Tom smiled.
‘Trust me,’ he said.
THE END
AFTERWORD
Thanks for reading Questions Of Trust – I hope you liked it. Needless to say, all the characters are fictional; but all fiction’s drawn from life, to some extent, and so inevitably aspects of people I know or have met have crept into my characters.
If you’ve enjoyed this book, you might like to try my first romance novel, St Matthew’s Passion, also available for Kindle from Amazon (see next page for details).
And if you’d like to get in touch with me, please do: [email protected].
Finally, I’d be most grateful if you’d consider leaving a review of Questions Of Trust on Amazon. Reviews get books noticed, and are useful to us authors in their own right. Many thanks!
Sam Archer
ALSO BY SAM ARCHER FOR KINDLE
ST MATTHEW’S PASSION
A Medical Romance
A novel about romance, about passion, and about the choices a man and a woman are forced to make between love and their careers
Melissa Havers is one of the brightest rising young stars in the ultra-competitive world of trauma surgery. When she lands a position at the prestigious St Matthew’s Hospital in London, she’s determined to beat the odds as a woman and become the best in her field.
But Melissa didn’t expect her boss, Daniel Finmore-Gage - Fin, as he’s known, and the most brilliant surgeon in the city - to have quite such an impact on her from the start.
And she certainly didn’t expect to fall in love with him.
Fin, though, has his reasons for not returning Melissa’s feelings. He’s been married before, he’s too professional to abuse the authority he has over her - and he harbours a dark secret which he can’t reveal to Melissa, and which has made him vow he’ll never put anything before his work.
Not even love...
As the powerful forces which bind these two strong, vital personalities threaten to disrupt the very functioning of the service to which they’ve both dedicated their professional careers, a crisis occurs which will test not only the bond between them, but also their commitment to the lives they’ve chosen for themselves.
Breathtaking in its suspense, and heartbreaking in its portrayal of a love affair that appears at once inevitable and doomed to failure, St Matthew’s Passion is a thrilling novel by a practising doctor which blends authentic specialist medical detail with a universal story of the complexities of the human heart.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
AFTERWORD
ALSO BY SAM ARCHER FOR KINDLEST MATTHEW’S PASSIONA Medical Romance
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
AFTERWORD
ALSO BY SAM ARCHER FOR KINDLEST MATTHEW’S PASSIONA Medical Romance