Aristides' Convenient Wife by jacqueline Baird

Author:jacqueline Baird [Baird, jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

The sudden click of a door opening made Helen’s heart skip a beat

and she looked warily across the room. Fury rippled through her as she

saw Leon’s tall frame outlined in the opening and unconsciously she

pulled the cover up higher.

‘What do you want?’ she demanded and silently cursed her choice

of words as one dark brow arched eloquently in her direction. But

defiantly she held his gaze as he walked towards her.

‘Now that is a leading question if ever I heard one,’ he drawled,

and stopped by the side of the bed. ‘And one I am sure you can answer if

you care to try,’ he prompted silkily.

Leon’s hard black eyes swept over his errant wife. He noted her

scarlet face framed by the silken mass of her ash-blonde hair tumbling

over her shoulders, the prim cotton nightshirt skimming over her firm

breasts, and he wanted to strangle her.

How dared the little witch try to defy him again? Last night he had

taken her innocence with perhaps not as much finesse as he would have

liked. But after the initial shock she had been with him all the way and

later he could have sworn he had calmed any virginal fears that still

lingered. He had the marks to prove it, so what the hell was her game? A

cold, disdainful smile twisted his wide mouth. He had had more than

enough with his first wife trying to tie him in knots with sex. He had

soon disillusioned her and he was damned if he was going to let this one

try the same tricks.

With each passing second Helen was conscious of the building

tension. She could feel his barely leashed anger almost physically, but

she refused to respond to his suggestive jibe. Instead she simply stared

up at him. Her heart was pounding in her chest, her conviction of

moments ago that Leon would see reason taking a nosedive. And what

had happened to the calls he was supposed to be making? He’d said

hours and it was barely thirty minutes.

‘Nothing to say, Helen?’ His black eyes, cold and hard as stone,

stared down into hers.

‘You said you were going to work,’ she snapped back and tried to

ignore the trickle of fear snaking its way down her spine.

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‘So I did, but Anna, while berating me on allowing my very new

bride to go to bed on her own, also let slip that you had chosen a

bedroom for a study.’ His hard mouth twisted in a derisive smile. ‘She is

a trusting soul and I doubt it ever crossed her mind you would sleep in

the room. But, surprise, surprise, I am nowhere near as trusting and

decided to check.’ ‘Oh.’

‘Oh.’ His dark eyes mocked her ruthlessly. ‘Is that all you have to

say for yourself?’

Helen swallowed down the nervous lump in her throat and said

bravely, ‘I told you last night I was not sharing your room again.’

‘Why?’ he demanded with an arrogance that maddened her. ‘After

last night there is not a part of your body that I don’t know intimately.’

It was true.

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