(1998) The Senator's Wife by Karen Robards

Author:Karen Robards [Robards, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Romance, Mystery
ISBN: 9780307801517
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1998-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

28

WALKING UP TO THE HOUSE, Tom listened to the band striking up a new song and smiled wryly. He and the bandleader must have some sort of cosmic connection tonight, he thought.

It was a romantic ballad, lush and sensual. The lead singer crooned yearningly of love, and Tom felt his body responding to the urgent beat of the music.

He had succumbed, utterly, completely, thoroughly succumbed, to the hot need pulsing through his veins—and the magic of a warm wind, a star-studded night, and a woman.

Morals, scruples, good common sense be damned: Tonight he couldn’t help himself.

He was going to take what he wanted, and to hell with the consequences.

Just thinking of Ronnie brought a smile to his lips and an ache to his groin. He quickened his steps.

“Hey, Tom!” It was Thea, hailing him from the pathway leading down from the veranda. As he was on the walk leading to the front door, a distance of some thirty feet away, he was able to wave in reply without stopping.

Thea was wearing a tight black sequined dress with what looked like feathers around the hem, and was looking very hot.

Tom knew he could have her in bed in about twenty minutes flat with not much more than one snap of his fingers. No real moral implications, no potential life-wrecking consequences, no strings.

Just plain, old-fashioned, have-a-good-time sex.

The only problem was he wasn’t interested. She didn’t move him. She never had. There was no enchantment there for him with Thea.

Or with Diane.

Or with anyone else but Ronnie.

Maybe he had a thing for red hair.

Or maybe it was big brown eyes, or luscious lips, or porcelain pale skin; maybe it was a body with curves in all the right places; hell, maybe it was too much eye makeup and three-inch heels.

Or maybe it was just Ronnie.

Whatever it was, he had it bad.

Worse than the chicken pox.

At least, Tom thought as he ran up the steps to the house, Thea was with somebody. She’d been hanging on to some guy’s arm even as she waved at him. That was a good thing. He wouldn’t want Ann to get wind of what had been going on between Thea and Kenny.

The irony of condemning his best friend for breaking his marriage vows while he was setting out to do some pretty thorough marriage-vow breaking of his own was not lost on Tom.

And he didn’t even try to tell himself that in his and Ronnie’s case it was different.

What it was, was a hunger as elemental as a force of nature, and as unstoppable.

He wanted her. She wanted him. When they were together, the air between them burned.

Call him morally bankrupt, but he wasn’t even going to try to fight that. Not any longer.

There wasn’t any point. He had already lost—or won—depending on how you looked at it. In either case he had discovered that he didn’t have what it took to walk away.

Entering the house through the front door, he looked around quickly and judged himself alone. He knew where her office was, and he climbed the main staircase swiftly.

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