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CHAPTER 045 - HOSPITAL AND BIG NEEDLES
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"Is this a private conversation or can anyone join in?" Luke interrupted Sarah’s musing drily and she blinked up at Luke. "I think you're overanalyzing. From what Elisa tells me he was desperate to cancel that debt. Elisa thinks, and I'm inclined to agree after what I just saw, that Lorenzo wants a clean slate with you but doesn't really know how to go about it." "Well, I live with him and I know you're both wrong," Sarah maintained stubbornly, shoving all those Scrabble and chess nights to the back of her mind determinedly. Sarah tried not to think about the companionable meals and the silent support that Lorenzo had lent her at every doctor's appointment. "He's in love with someone else. I'd say another woman, only in this case, I think I'm probably the other woman." "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" both Elisa and Luke asked furiously. "He was in love with her before my father forced him into this marriage. She's the woman he wants to have a family with. I'm the
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The natural light in the room had a warm orange glow to it when Sarah woke up later and she saw it was just after dusk, meaning that she had slept for nearly five hours. She sighed lazily, feeling remarkably warm and comfortable with her head cushioned on Lorenzo’s hard chest and his neck supported by his upper arm. That same arm was curled around Sarah’s shoulders with his big hand snuggled just under her right breast. One of Sarah’s hands was tucked under his cheek and the other was...she tensed abruptly when she discovered where her audacious hand had come to rest. It was cupped over the firm bulge of Lorenzo’s crotch. A bulge that was rapidly swelling and hardening beneath her palm. "Don't panic," Lorenzo’s sleep- roughened voice growled. The deep tenor of his voice rumbled through the chest beneath his head. "Don't...it's nothing." "It doesn't feel like nothing to me." Sarah’s own voice was husky with sleep, and she amazed herself when, instead of following her first inst
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