Awaken to Pleasure by Nalini Singh

Author:Nalini Singh [Singh, Nalini]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781426847370
Google: ielfNFse_h0C
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-10-12T07:00:00+00:00

“I think we have to at least show up at this party,” he told Taylor later that day. They’d spent most of the previous hours working on legal documents, taking only a short break to explore the nearby coral reef. The excursion had been worth making time for, if only to see the wonder on Taylor’s face as they snorkeled through the reef’s colorful and fearless inhabitants.

Though he was aware that after their return Taylor had spent time on the phone with her therapist, Maggie, he hadn’t asked her about it. It was enough that she’d found someone who was able to help her. “It’s being hosted by the resort owners.” Knowing them was the reason he’d been able to get a spot on the exclusive paparazzi-free island on such short notice.

Scowling, Taylor said, “No, we’re not going.”

He was so used to her sunny nature that he was momentarily stunned by the determined denial. “Why not?”

He heard her gritting her teeth. “I was poor, Jackson. I won’t know how to fit in there. It’d be different starting out in our home because it would be my territory.”

Her response astounded him. She was usually so self-contained and confident that occasionally he wished she’d show a little more need for him, but he’d never wanted her so vulnerable that she was hurting.

“You’ve worked in the industry…” he began, at a loss. And yet, the primitive part of him was exulting that she’d forgotten herself enough to share her fears with him.

“As a secretary!” Her eyes glittered. “They’ll look down on me.”

He walked across the verandah and clamped his hands on her shoulders. “Cara mia, I would never let them hurt you.”

She bit her lip. He knew about her lack of trust in men and their promises, and could even understand it, but it still hurt when she didn’t immediately believe in him.

“I won’t let the vultures near you.” He wanted to show her the tenderness she needed, but his voice came out rough, almost a command that she trust him.

To his surprise, she reacted favorably. Her back straightened and she threw him a glare for daring to give her an order. “I don’t have anything to wear.”

“We can go shopping in the resort boutiques. Whatever you wear, you’ll knock ’em dead.”

Her smile was brilliant, far more like the woman he was used to. “Thank you. You’re a kind man.”

When she pecked him on the cheek, he grit his teeth against the urge to haul her to the floor and indulge his starving senses. Kind? If he’d been a kind man, he’d have tried harder to think of a way to help her without marrying her. The truth was, when the idea had come, he hadn’t looked any further, because he’d wanted sweet Taylor for his very own. And he would fight to keep her.

Santorini men weren’t known for their sharing nature.

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