A Game With One Winner by Harris Lynn Raye

Author:Harris, Lynn Raye [Harris, Lynn Raye]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780263234503
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Kazarov Leaves a Trail of Broken Hearts in His Wake; Caro Needs to Beware

ROMAN WOKE WITH a start sometime before dawn. He’d barely slept at all, and now he wasn’t sure what had awakened him. A dream, maybe. He threw his arm over his head and stared up at the ceiling. Beside him, Caroline slept, her soft breaths whispering in and out regularly. She’d curled in a ball—away from him, he noted.

But she was still here. He remembered what he’d said to her right before they fell asleep. That maybe it wouldn’t end badly this time.

He had no idea where that had come from. No, he didn’t intend for it to end badly for him—but he did intend for it to end. How it ended for her ought not to concern him.

Except, for a brief moment when he’d been holding her close and feeling her soft body next to his, trusting him, he’d never wanted it to end. He’d wanted to stay just like that, holding her and protecting her always.

Insane.

How could he feel any sort of tenderness toward this woman after what she’d put him through? He’d given her his heart—asked her to marry him—and she’d laughed at him. Pitied him, no doubt. Because he hadn’t been worthy of the great Sullivan blood.

For some reason, that hadn’t seemed to matter to him when he’d been buried inside her, feeling her excitement, giving her pleasure. Like a trained monkey, he’d wanted only to give her more of the same. More, so that she smiled at him and told him how good he was. So that she kept coming to him for her fix.

Wanting a woman this much was dangerous. He had never made that mistake with any other woman but this one. What was it about him that made him want to throw himself against the same wall again and again in the hopes the result would be different this time? A flaw inherited from his waste of space of a father, no doubt.

That thought made Roman shudder. He was nothing like his father. Nothing at all.

And yet here he was, with the same woman who’d ripped his guts out once before, and nothing was going the way he’d imagined it might. He didn’t feel as in control as he’d wanted to feel. He didn’t feel as if he was the victor here at all.

He imagined her married to Jon, imagined Jon doing the things to her that he’d done, and it made his inner beast coil and writhe. He could hardly look at their child without wanting to howl. For some reason, the kid hurt most of all.

And Roman had to get over it, because the boy wasn’t going away.

He sat up, intending to get out of bed and do some work before it was time to get dressed and go back to Sullivan’s. His empire was global, so it was the middle of the workday in some locations. Not that he personally supervised every single company, but he could check in with the managers of those territories and get reports, at least.

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