Bitter Betrayal by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488080951
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘COME on, Jen…we’re home now.’

Home…how lovely that word sounded, especially when spoken by that deep male voice that made her toes curl a little just to hear it.

Even so, she was deliciously comfortable where she was…warm and safe, breathing in a familiar man scent that made her want to stay where she was.

‘Come on, Jen. There are two ways we can do this: either you get out of the car under your own steam and walk, or I carry you…’

The voice came from her other side now and cool air was wafting over her, forcing her to open her eyes. She did so reluctantly, frowning as she realised distantly that she was sitting in an unfamiliar car.

With its unfamiliarity came fine tendrils of apprehension which made her turn her head still further, until her gaze encountered that of the man watching her.

Relief filled her. It was Luke, and there was no reason for her to be afraid…no reason at all.

Instinctively she raised her arms toward him and said sleepily, ‘Carry me, Luke…’

An odd, indefinable expression crossed his face, but she was too bemused to translate it, only giving a blissful sigh as he complied with her request and lifted her out of the car.

Instinctively she snuggled against him, her arms going around him as she closed her eyes and wished a little crossly that she didn’t feel quite so dizzy.

Luke had to put her down to unlock the front door, and he was thankful to discover once he had got her inside that the house was in silence. The last thing he wanted to face was the twins’ accusing faces when they saw the state of their sister. He felt guilty enough already, without them adding to that burden.

As he walked across the hall, Jenneth murmured something about wanting a drink. He tightened his hold on her grimly and went straight upstairs, glad of the relative lightness of the summer night so that he didn’t have to switch on any lights and wake the twins.

He knew which was Jenneth’s room; the door was already half open, but he was careful to close it gently behind him as he carried her over to her bed.

He put her on it gently, sighing faintly as he looked down into her face. Without the guard she wore whenever he was around, she looked so young. Hardly any older than she had looked at twenty-one. Her eyes were closed, a silky strand of hair brushing across her face. He reached out to remove it, the breath locking in his chest as he felt the never truly forgotten warm silkiness of her skin beneath his fingertips. How was it that the human senses could remember and react to one specific other human being’s skin so intensely? As he traced her jawbone, her eyelashes fluttered.

She was still fully dressed and, while instinct warned him to leave her as she was, concern made him hesitate, knowing that she was almost bound to oversleep in the morning, and that her brothers, curious as to her whereabouts, were equally bound to invade her bedroom.

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