Blackmailed by the Vengeful Tycoon

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488030819
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1985-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

SHE had never in her life experienced so much tension as she was experiencing now, Emma thought wearily as she studied her face in her bedroom mirror.

The atmosphere in the house since Bianca’s outburst three nights ago, had been virtually intolerable. The only positive thing to happen was that Drake and Giles were continuing to negotiate the sale of the magazine. Giles’s secretary was now fully recovered and back at work, and having chatted to the older woman on several occasions, Emma had found her warm-hearted and intelligent. She also suspected that Marti was in love with Giles. Life was a constant series of almost macabre jokes, she reflected unhappily, and Drake was probably right, love was an impossible to reach nirvana; a hoax thought up by unkind and mocking Gods to torment lesser human beings.

Bianca was in a mega-sulk, which although in many ways easier to bear than her constant vitriolic outbursts made for a very uncomfortable atmosphere, but Bianca’s behaviour wasn’t the sole cause for her tension, Emma admitted to herself. There was also Drake; and her own awareness of him; her body’s awareness of the fact that he slept in the next room; her imagination’s cruelty in relaying to her night after night tormenting images of his body, powerful and sleek, capable of arousing her own to the very heights of human experience. But in the trade off to reach those heights she would be giving up so much… She would always have her memories, a traitorous voice persuaded her; many women married for friendship; for children; for calmer, surer waters than those represented by Drake.

That way was not for her… It was unfair and weak. Better to spend her life completely alone… So why not take what was offered to her now; why not allow herself the pleasure Drake could give her and leave payment of the price for the future?

On and on the inner arguments raged exhausting her mentally and physically, and Drake wasn’t helping. Every time he touched her or looked at her, he turned the screw a little tighter, increasing her hunger for him, wearing away her resistance. Since that night outside her room he had had himself completely under control. Which was more than she could say for herself, Emma thought ruefully. Today he and Giles had gone to see Giles’s lawyers and would be gone for most of the day, which was probably why she felt so restless.

At last unable to endure the confining, stifling atmosphere of the mansion any longer Emma decided she would go into New York and do some window shopping. She hadn’t visited the city stores once during her stay and it would be a way of passing time.

Giles had said on several occasions that if she wanted to go anywhere she had simply to tell Barnes their major domo who would organise a car for her, and without giving herself time to change her mind Emma sought him out.

Although he expressed doubts as to the

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