Below the Surface by Marie Harte

Author:Marie Harte
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780857153937
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2010-10-11T22:00:00+00:00

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Sighing, he pulled at his tie. Might as well tell her. He had been a bastard about Davis. “I apologised about Davis, and I really am sorry. But Tessa, you had me so stirred up,” he paused, the sincerity in his eyes unmistakable. “I wanted you so much that day in the office.” He clearly recalled his first taste of her, and incredibly, he was hard as a pike. “I wanted to fuck you right there on my desk,” he said hoarsely, shocking her with his crude language.

“Oh,” she said in a tiny voice.

He laughed roughly. “Yeah, oh. You make me say and do things I normally wouldn’t.”

She was quiet a moment. “And when I teleported?”

His eyes narrowed as he recalled the monumental fear he’d felt when she’d vanished right in front of him. “It was a foolish thing for you to do. You might have been killed. You could have transported anywhere, into anything. Aerolus had no right to ask you to do that.”

She stared at him, her hand stroking his shoulder as if soothing a wild animal. Oddly enough, her touch calmed him.

“You were worried,” she said quietly, making him feel weak for being afraid.

“No, I—”

“It’s okay, Marcus,” she said with a small smile. “I was just as terrified when Arim showed up. I thought he was a wraith and I just…reacted.”

He frowned, recalling how reckless he’d been accepting Arim’s presence.

“I should have protected you better.”

“Better?” Her baby-blue eyes stared in astonishment. “You took a beating to your back, and even healed, he left scarring bruises on you that haven’t faded.”

“They will,” he said, surprised at her accusing tone. “It’s only been a day, Tessa.”

She blinked. “Funny, it feels like a lot longer.”

He knew the feeling. Since she’d been here in his home, Marcus felt as if he and Tessa had known each other forever. And instead of feeling cloying, she felt like a breath of freedom, a wash of vitality that made him feel things he shouldn’t.

He still refused to admit it to himself, but he knew, deep down, what she was to him. A better man would have grabbed her already. But some part of him wasn’t yet ready for what bonding with Tessa would entail. He needed to return home, hell, he wanted to return. But to be king when he could barely protect a woman who was coming to mean so much to him?

“Marcus?” She stroked his hair, and he wanted to close his eyes and never move from this spot again. “Are you okay? You look a little funny.”

“I’m fine, now,” he said on a sigh, content to let her massage his scalp and run her fingers through his hair.

“My, isn’t this cosy.”

‘Sin Garu floated above them, a wry smile teasing his perfectly sculpted, blood-red lips.

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