A Reputation For Revenge by Jennie Lucas

Author:Jennie Lucas
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781472001757
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2013-02-01T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

“NO WAY!” JOSIE exploded. “I’m not sharing a bed with you!”

She folded her arms and stuck out her chin, glaring at Kasimir in a way that told him everything he needed to know.

He’d been right. She’d been planning to escape.

Narrowing his eyes, Kasimir folded his arms in turn and glared right back at her. “If I cannot trust you, I will keep you next to me all night long.”

She now looked near tears. “You’re being ridiculous!” She unfolded her arms. “Can’t you just trust me not to escape?”

His eyebrow lifted. “Sure. I told you. All you need to do is give me your word of honor.”

Her eyes widened, and then her shoulders sagged as she looked away.

“I can’t,” she whispered.

Kasimir brushed back some long tendrils of light brown hair that had escaped her ponytail. “I know.”

Her brown eyes were bright with misery as she looked back at him. “How did you guess?”

“Ah, kroshka.” He looked down at her trembling pink lips, at her cheeks that were rosy with emotion. “I can see your feelings on your face.” His jaw tightened. “But you saw how deep we are in the desert. Even with your reckless optimism, you cannot think that running away on foot in the middle of the night is a good idea.”

“That wasn’t my plan,” she mumbled.

“If you try to flee, you’ll die. You’ll be swallowed up by the desert and never be found again.”

Her shoulders slumped further, and she wouldn’t meet his eyes. “I wouldn’t…” She took a deep breath, then lifted her eyes, shining with unshed tears that hit him like a knife beneath his ribs. “I just can’t share a bed with you,” she whispered.

His hands clenched.

“Damn you, can’t you understand?” He had to restrain himself from shaking her. “It’s either share a bed with me, or I’ll tie you up as you were before, and leave you to sleep on the floor!”

She didn’t answer.

“Well?” he said sharply.

“I’m thinking!”

He exhaled, setting his jaw. “I’m not going to seduce you. Surely you know that by now. What more can I do to prove it to you?”

“You don’t have to do anything,” she said in a small voice. “I believe you.”

“Then what are you so afraid of?”

She looked at him in the dim light of the flickering lantern as they stood alone together in his tent.

“But what if I touch you?” she whispered.

Kasimir’s whole body went hard so fast he nearly staggered back from the intensity of his desire. He held his breath, staring down at her as he choked out, “You—”

“Just accidentally, I mean,” she said, her cheeks red. “I might roll over in bed in the middle of the night and put my arms around you while I’m sleeping. Or something. You might wake up and, well, get the wrong idea…”

The wrong idea? Kasimir’s mind was filled with dozens of ideas, and all of them seemed exactly right. He looked at the way she was chewing her full, pink lower lip. A habit of hers. He wanted to lean forward and taste its sweetness for himself.

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