An Indecent Proposal by Sandra Marton

Author:Sandra Marton [Marton, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460398456
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1995-08-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

AS SOON AS they boarded the Apache, Angelica surprised Cade by opening the vial of pain tablets and gulping two of them down.

“Does your hand hurt?”

“No,” she said in a voice that dripped icicles, “it does not hurt. I took the pills because I had nothing better to do, and I thought they might be fun.”

He looked at her in the faint light of the instrument panel and gave her a smile that more than matched the chill in her words.

“I’ll be satisfied if they keep you quiet,” he said.

And she was quiet. By the time they were airborne, her head was drooping back against the seat. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her blink, then yawn. Within seconds, she was asleep.

Cade sighed and felt his muscles begin to relax. He loved flying, especially at night. He’d always found a star-filled sky the best place to think about whatever might be on his mind.

Tonight, what was on his mind—what wouldn’t go away—was what had happened when they’d pulled up beside the plane.

Why in hell had he kissed her? It made no sense.

A contemptible bastard, she’d called him.

“Damn,” he muttered in the darkness of the cockpit.

“Contemptible” was surely not the way a man wanted to think of himself. It was definitely not the way he wanted to be described by a woman, even when that woman was Angelica Gordon.

Even worse was the nagging realization that she was right.

He looked at Angelica again, lying curled beside him in sleep. She looked soft, and vulnerable, and almost painfully feminine—which only showed how deceiving looks could be. She was none of those things—or was she? He had tasted the softness of her lips, seen the sudden vulnerability in her eyes, felt the ripeness of her rounded breasts and hips….

He thumped the control wheel with his hand.

“Dammit, Landon!” he growled.

What kind of nonsense was this? There was nothing about Angelica Gordon that appealed to him. She was the very antithesis of what he liked a woman to be; what’s more, she brought out the very worst in him, a strange, primitive desire to subdue and conquer.

For the first time in his life, he understood why a caveman might have hit a woman over the head, then dragged her off to his lair to prove, once and for all, which of them was the master—and, suddenly, it came to him.

He was not contemptible at all. He was desperate, as desperate as any man would be when pushed to the boundaries of sanity by a mean-tempered shrew.

Otherwise, why would he have confused the desire to throttle Angelica Gordon with the desire to kiss her?

And it was all Grant’s fault. Grant was the one who’d sent him on this crazy mission, who’d urged him to move cautiously and discreetly, but then, his brother was a lawyer, and lawyers were notorious for making mountains out of molehills.

Cade’s eyes narrowed. To hell with caution! It was time to trust his instincts.

It was time to call Angelica’s bluff.

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