Blogger Bundle Volume VIII: SBTB's Harlequins That Hooked You by Jennifer Crusie & Suzanne Brockmann & Emilie Rose & Rachel Lee & Beverly Barton

Author:Jennifer Crusie & Suzanne Brockmann & Emilie Rose & Rachel Lee & Beverly Barton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

Franco needed to get away from Stacy. Now.

He had broken a rule and hugged her. How could he not? She might have tried to act unaffected while telling her grisly tale, but the tremor in her voice and the deathly pallor of her face had given her inner angst away. If she was acting, she was the best damned actress he had ever seen.

But if she was telling the truth then not only had her mother walked away from money, but Stacy had as well. She could not possibly be that different from other avaricious members of her sex. Could she? Had she not already hinted that a million dollars would not be enough to give her a life of leisure?

But she plans to go back to work. She did not ask for more.

What was it about her that made him talk? He had revealed things about Lisette and Vincent that he had never shared with anyone. If he did not leave now then there was no telling what she would extract from him.

He put necessary inches between them. “I must read over the documents and spend an hour with Mathé. Can you amuse yourself?”

“Of course,” Stacy replied without hesitation.

“If you are genuinely interested in history then you may explore the house. The wives are allowed to change the linens, but not the furniture or the architecture.”

Excitement flared in Stacy’s eyes. Any of his other lovers would have pouted if he tried to ignore them, and then they would have cajoled or attempted to seduce him into entertaining them. If he had brought his lovers here, that is. And since Lisette, he had not. Stacy would not be here if not for his father’s insistence on meeting her. Franco would not put it past the old goat to have stripped the rooms himself to force Franco to share his bedroom and his bed.

“Your father won’t mind if I snoop around?”

“Non. Papa knows the history of the house and the furnishings. I will see if he can accompany you.”

“I don’t want to be any trouble.” She fussed with a button on her blouse and Franco struggled with a sudden urge to strip the garment from her. He had escorted her from his bed to a taxi less than twelve hours ago, and yet his desire for her had not diminished with exposure. If anything, his craving for her had intensified. Not a positive circumstance. “Your father wasn’t expecting me, was he?”

“He asked to meet you.”

Her eyes widened. “You told him about me? About us?”

“Oui.”

“The whole truth?”

“I do not lie.” Her gaze fell and her cheeks darkened. From embarrassment? Was she ashamed of the bargain they had made? Franco reached out and tucked a stray lock of hair beneath Stacy’s ear. “Tonight, we will do something I have never done.”

Her pulse quickened beneath his fingertips. “What’s that?”

“I have never had a woman in my boyhood bed. Fantasies, oui. But flesh? Non.”

Her gaze darted to the object in question behind him and the tip of her tongue dampened her lips.

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