His Cousin's Wife

Lynsey Stevens

FORBIDDEN! 'I asked you to wait for me. But you married my cousin… .' Shea had been devastated when her childhood sweetheart had left to pursue a high-flying career. Alex Finlay had been her life - how could he blame her for turning to his cousin for comfort?For ten years, Shea's marriage has haunted Alex. Now he returns to find Shea a widow, with a young son. His son. All Alex wants is a second chance to make a family with Shea. If only it didn't feel like Shea still belonged to another man… .If only he could stop thinking of her as his cousin's wife! Forbidden! - When passion knows no reason… .

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“Didn’t you marry the first man who came along after I left?”

“Left is the operative word. You had left, Alex,” Shea threw at him.

“And barely a month later you married Jamie. My own cousin,” he said with heavy contempt.

“Well, it’s all in the past now. Jamie and I had a good marriage and—”

Alex grasped her arm. “Jamie told me how happy you were. And I died a thousand deaths over the years thinking of you with him, then hating myself because I envied him when he was just like a brother to me. I used to torture myself imagining you together, you kissing Jamie the way you used to kiss me.”

Shea’s mouth was dry. Her whole body wanted to move toward him, but with steely control she held herself rigidly apart.

“When you were making love with Jamie, did you ever imagine it was me?”

LYNSEY STEVENS was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and before beginning to write she was a librarian. It was in secondary school that she decided she wanted to be a writer. “Writers, I imagined,” Lynsey explains, “lived such exciting lives: traveling to exotic places, making lots of money and not having to work. I have traveled. However, the taxman loves me dearly, and no one told me about typist’s backache and frustrating lost words!” When she’s not writing she enjoys reading and cross-stitching and she’s interested in genealogy.

Lynsey Stevens writes intense, deeply emotional romances—with vibrant, believable characters. Her powerful writing style is highlighted perfectly in our FORBIDDEN! series....

In His Cousin’s Wife Lynsey gives a moving insight into the poignancy of forbidden passion...when two people have been in love with each other for years, but circumstances keep them apart!

His Cousin’s Wife

Lynsey Stevens

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CHAPTER ONE

HIS strong, tanned body loomed over her, shutting out the shaft of moonlight that had been dancing between the rustling leaves above them, the light salty breeze playing along their naked bodies.

Her hands rose to touch his sleek skin, to slide over his taut buttocks, along the indentation of his spine, around his narrow hips, upwards over his firm midriff. The soft mat of fine hair on his chest curled damply about her fingers as her hands rested there for long moments before continuing their erotic expedition.

She exalted in the heady knowledge that she was exciting him, and she luxuriated in the rippling contours of the smooth flexing muscles of his shoulders and arms as he held himself poised above her.

She followed the tensed sweep of his neck, fingertips tracing the shape of his ears, the line of his square jaw, his firm chin, to settle on his full lips.

He took her