A Question of Honor by Kate Walker

Author:Kate Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-05-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘IF YOU PROMISE to go to sleep...’

‘I promise.’

Surely this was hell, Karim told himself as she scooted over and he eased himself into the small space that she had left for him. Hell was not eternal fire or demons torturing you. Hell was a cosy nest in a too-small bed with a woman he ached to possess but was forbidden to touch. He could only pray that she would go to sleep fast.

‘How am I supposed to sleep with you sitting there like you have a broom handle for a spine?’ Clemmie protested, the warmth of her breath shivering over his skin.

‘There’s not much room...’

‘Then curl up closer...’

She suited actions to the words, her movement building the heat in their little cocoon to boiling point. Damn it, was she really that naïve or—his heart skipped a beat with a heavy thud—was she doing this deliberately?

‘Sleep!’ he growled roughly, his lips brushing the silky hair on the top of her head, fine strands catching on his skin, on the roughness of his day-old stubble as they did so.

Sleep!

Clemmie barely caught back the word of protest as she let her face rest against his chest. How was she expected to sleep like this? Her whole body was wildly awake, her heart pounding, her breathing suddenly raw and heavy in her lungs. The strength of the arms holding her were at once a source of comfort and dangerous excitement and the hard bones of his ribcage seemed to be made specially to support her head. The heat of his skin had turned the comfort she had been looking for into an inferno of need that pulsed between her legs in a way she had never known before.

This then was desire. This was what it felt like to want a man—this particular man—in the way that a woman was meant to feel.

She wanted—needed—to feel more of him. One hand stroking across the white cotton of his tee shirt, she could feel the thud of his heart under her fingertips, the smoothness of skin, the...

The movement stilled, her head lifting slightly, at the unexpected thickening and roughness where everywhere else there had been smooth skin.

‘What’s this?’

‘Clemmie—’

She caught the note of warning but ignored it. Her fingers brushed against the swollen hardness of his lower body as she pushed at the hem of his tee shirt at his waist. It almost made her pause, the realisation of what it meant sending shockwaves of reaction through every inch of her. But the new and very different tension in the powerful body beside her told her that she was touching on something that mattered, something that came close to the innermost part of this man, and she was not to be put off.

‘What’s wrong?’

She pushed the white cotton aside, bunching it up around his shoulders and then caught her breath in shock at what she had exposed.

‘Damn it, Clemmie...’

With a muttered curse, Karim twisted sharply, catching hold of her wrists and imprisoning them in the strength of his hands.

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