A Scandalous Inheritance by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488032035
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1987-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE car which Natasha had bought with such pleasure stood reproachfully and unused in the garage Jay had grimly allocated to it.

It wasn’t just pride that kept Natasha from telling him the truth and explaining that she had bought the car from her own money—after all, ultimately, he must surely realise the truth when no invoice was forthcoming?

No, there was more to it than that. Something much, much more… Something insidious and dangerous that gnawed at her and made her feel more vulnerable than she had ever felt in her life. She needed the barrier of reminding herself how irrationally and unfairly he had behaved towards her; how he had misjudged and abused her. She needed it and she was determined to retain it.

Even so, no matter how justifiable her actions and her right to spend her own money as she chose, she found it impossible to touch the car.

The girls had both begged for rides in it, suggesting that she take them on a visit to see their friends, but always she found some excuse to put them off.

Instead, she persuaded them to take her riding round the ranch. Rory had saddled the mare for her and, although at first the girls had been inclined to tease her for the way she rode, it had only taken Rory’s comment that the English way of riding was the only correct way, to silence their teasing comments.

Her new Stetson protected her from the sun, and soon she was able to appreciate how vast an area the ranch covered.

She had deliberately stayed out of the way the evening after their return, when Jenneth and her husband had come over to dinner, not wanting to watch Jay dancing attendance on the other woman, giving to her the kindness and courtesy that was so lacking in his manner towards herself. She was not eager to examine too closely her motives behind this reaction; she only knew that the intensity of her sexual reaction to him left her feeling acutely vulnerable and frightened.

Even then, when surely any man of sense must have realised how innocent and untutored she was, he had gone on blaming and accusing, she reflected acidly, as she slid tiredly off her mount’s back.

Today she had spent almost four full hours in the saddle, and her muscles were starting to ache a little.

She had been surprised and pleased at the ease with which her old riding skills had come back to her. Once when they were out, the twins had pointed out Jay and some of his men to her, but although Jay had looked in their direction he had not ridden over to them.

Tonight Jenneth and her husband were coming to dinner again. The twins had given her the news dolefully, convinced that the blonde was making a play for their uncle.

‘You wait and see. She’ll get a Mexican divorce from Howie, and she and Uncle Jay will be married before he’s had time to turn round.’

‘Would that really be so bad?’ she had asked, painfully aware of her own sharp thrill of anguish.

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