A Fiery Baptism by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham [Graham, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-05-31T14:38:50+00:00

The floor seemed to be heaving under her feet. Rafael invariably saw wheels within wheels, hidden things in dark corners and complexity and double meaning where none existed. He had a naturally suspicious nature. Briefly she didn't know whether to be amused or offended by his assumption. She ought to be laughing, she decided numbly. She couldn't understand why she wasn't laughing because really it was hysterically funny. Only a suicidal maniac would have reeled away from their marriage to go off in pursuit of another man.

'We are still m...married.’ She stumbled clumsily over

the reminder. 'And there haven't been any other '

'You were quick to disabuse me of that notion earlier,’ he rebutted contemptuously. ‘What we shared was a casual sexual encounter and that reflects glory upon neither one of us.'

Sarah was shaking. She dug her fingers into the back of a high-backed chair, afraid that if she let go she might fall. Casual? Casual? Rafael had practically torn her clothes off. Phrases like indecent haste and a violent lack of control seemed more apt. But then what did she know about such things? She had no basis for comparison. Certainly Rafael had never behaved like that during their marriage. Then he had been very cool, very controlled., .except once, her memory adjusted and her skin heated as she recalled the night that the twins had been conceived without her agreement. After that, he had never touched her again. Casual, she tasted again, retreating from the past and cringing from the present. Every moral principle she possessed revolted against the knowledge that Rafael had taken her out of some sort of cruel and lustful impulse.

'You bastard.’ Abusing him hurt her throat but then she did not believe that there was a single part of her that wasn't hurting.

A scathing brow lifted. 'Almost,' he breathed disconcertingly. 'But not quite. And no doubt you are ready

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