A Lesson In Seduction by Susan Napier

Author:Susan Napier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

LUKE provided her with delightful sport for the next hour as they raced back and forth across the bay, circling the buoys and pontoons, taking it in turns to ride each other’s wake and duelling with other jet-skis who dared challenge for supremacy of the waves.

It was the first time Rosalind had seen him completely uninhibited and she was startled by the streak of fierce competitiveness he revealed in their games. He liked to win, and when he did made no bones about enjoying his victory, punching a fist to the sky, his triumphant laugh ringing out over the water. She couldn’t quite believe that it was the same man who would hardly say boo to a goose on dry land!

Even more surprisingly, Rosalind was the one to flag first. When their time was finally up she was glad to hand over her jet-ski to someone else and stagger up the beach, cheerfully admitting as she flopped down on her towel that her arms and legs felt like jelly from the constant strain of controlling all that horsepower.

‘Not to mention another part of my anatomy that’s taken a pounding,’ she groaned as she wriggled on her back to make a nice contoured hollow in the sand for the tender region and propped her hat against the top of her head so that it shaded her face. ‘I must have lost more condition than I thought on that wretched island!’

Luke, who seemed if anything to be more energised by the experience, shook his towel before settling down beside her, leaning back on braced arms, his knees drawn up in front of him, flicking his wet hair back with a sharp toss of his head.

‘Are you talking about the film you’ve just finished?’ His curiosity was no longer constrained by having to pretend ignorance of her background.

Rosalind pulled a wry face. ‘You mean which almost finished me.’

She embarked on her humorously harrowing tale of woman-eating sharks, broken bones and mosquitoes the size of vampire bats. ‘It was the sheer incompetency of the whole thing that I found so infuriating,’ she finished, with an angry twist to her mobile mouth. ‘I wouldn’t have minded the deprivations so much if it had been a cracking script, but by the time the director had done a million rewrites the characters were practically incomprehensible. As a break into films it was not a good career move...’

‘I thought you preferred the stage anyway,’ he said, confirming that he had read the small print of the article, not just the trashy bits. ‘What made you want to do this film?’

She sighed. He had an instinct for innocently framing awkward questions.

‘Impulse. I was looking to expand my horizons. The original script was actually quite good...and the director begged me to!’ She opened her eyes and found him regarding her thoughtfully. She moved her expressive hands restlessly. ‘Trina was a friend of mine. Hell, I didn’t know that since we left drama school she’d only done commercials and music

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