Morning light found them still tangled.Marianne woke first. For a long moment she lay still, cataloguing the unfamiliar weight of a body in her bed, the heat of a bare thigh pressed between hers, the slow rise and fall of Theo’s chest under her cheek. The sheet had slipped to their waists. His arm was heavy across her back. One of her legs was hooked over his hip as if, even in sleep, she had refused to let him go.The guilt arrived a second later, cold and precise.Caroline’s son. Caroline’s boy. The child she had once watched open Christmas presents on a living-room floor. The thought should have made her pull away. Instead her fingers flexed against his stomach, feeling the warm, firm skin, the faint trail of hair that disappeared beneath the sheet. He was hard against her thigh. Even asleep he was hard for her.She shifted carefully, meaning only to look at him. The movement woke him. His eyes opened, grey and sleep-soft, and for a second he only stared at her as if she might van
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