Blackmailed by the Greek's Vows by Tara Pammi

Author:Tara Pammi [Pammi, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2018-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

SHE HAD BARELY reached their room and changed out of the stupid dress, then come down for a cup of hot tea when he cornered her.

“I want to sleep. I’m... I can already feel the headache beginning.”

He took hold of her wrist, tugging her into the study he had taken over from Theseus.

The smell of wood and cigars instantly reminded her of her grandfather Antonio. Another man who had thought she would amount to nothing.

While she stared into the empty fireplace, Kairos came back with steaming black coffee, cheese and perfectly cut apples.

“Eat.”

Her stomach roiled so she took the plate from him and dutifully ate. He sat down on the step of the fireplace, his long legs bumping into hers until she shifted and the line of them grazed hers.

“Valentina, look at me.”

Concern and something else glinted in his silver gaze. She forced a fake smile to her mouth. “My knees are a little the worse for wear, but, si, I’m perfectly fine.”

He flinched then, whatever he saw in her eyes making him draw back. As if she could hurt him!

“I’ve never... I didn’t ask you to do that for me.”

“You did it for me.” Just mentioning the day when he had put his mouth to the most intimate part of her sent shivers through her.

He scowled. “Why today?”

She looked at him and then away, afraid of what he would see in her eyes. “I was frustrated, feeling reckless.” She looked down at her locked fingers. “The release you gave me took the edge off before I did something stupid. So I returned the favor.”

A dangerous glint appeared in his eyes. One brow arched on his arrogant face. “Took the edge off? Was that what I did?”

His gaze dared her to shrug, to cheapen it.

He pinned her to the spot with his penetrating stare, as if he could see into her soul.

She swallowed and looked away. The endless silence, his painful indifference—it was all gone and there was a different man watching her. A man she’d always sensed beneath his ruthlessness but could never touch.

She struggled to make her voice casual. “Compared to my history of making a spectacle of myself every time I get upset, giving my almost separated husband a blow job is probably of minor consequence, si?”

“You do not fool me, Valentina. What happened at the nightclub couldn’t have left you untouched—” he placed a broad palm over her chest “—in here.”

Her heart pounded away under his touch. “Because only you can be casual about sex? Not I?”

“I’ve slept only with two women in my entire life. You and one other girlfriend. It was a convenient relationship I fell into and we went our separate ways when it wasn’t more. I have never been casual about sex. I told you I don’t fall into relationships easily. I had Theseus’s support but when I left him, I had to start all over with little to my name. Careers like that don’t leave room for relationships.”

“You proposed to Sophia.

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