Bedded by the Greek Billionaire by Kate Walker

Author:Kate Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE grandfather clock that stood in the hallway was chiming yet another hour as Jessica prowled restlessly round the library, checking once more out of the window in the hope that there might at last be some sign of Angelos’s return. Her ears strained to hear the sound of his car engine, her eyes hunting for the gleam of his headlights in the pinkish light of dawn but to no avail. She’d followed exactly the same routine only a few moments before and there had been nothing to see. There was little point at all in trying again.

And yet she just could not keep still.

It had been like this all through the night. Ever since the moment that Angelos had stormed out of the house, she had been unable to settle, unable to concentrate on anything. She had paced up and down the hallway, half longing and yet half terrified that she would hear the sound of the car and know that he had come back. He had to come back so that she could explain to him that she had not meant her wild, foolish words in the way that he had taken them. But, knowing the mood in which he had left, she dreaded actually confronting him and seeing his face, reading the fury in his eyes. She suspected that, no matter how hard she tried, he would never believe her. But she had to try.

She’d seen that look in his eyes—the black fury, the total contempt, the absolute rejection of everything about her—once before, on that dreadful night when Marty had found them together. And then, so much younger and more naïve, she hadn’t acted on it. Instead, she’d reacted out of fear—being so desperate for her stepfather’s approval—and pain as a result of the bitter hurt of Angelos’s stinging rejection of her that she had lashed out unthinkingly.

She had been knocked for six from the first moment that she had seen Angelos at work in the stables. Nothing in her few immature connections with the boys she knew had prepared her for the sheer physical impact of a fully adult male, dark and dangerous and oh so sexy.

She’d followed him round like a puppy, had tried to flirt and been so bad at it that she had blushed and stammered her way through any conversations she had had with him. She’d even bought tickets for a show, claiming they’d been a gift, and invited him to join her. He’d said that he had to work but that night she’d seen him walking back from the pub with Lucille, one of the maids. He’d taken the girl into his flat, where she could just imagine what sort of ‘work’ they’d be doing.

Burning with humiliation and jealousy, she’d determined that she would show him.

She’d got hold of the spare key to his flat, gone up there when she knew he was out, wearing just some brand new underwear under her coat. She’d had a long, nerve-racking wait until she’d heard his footfalls, heavy, weary, coming up the stairs.

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