Burning Obsession by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488030895
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1982-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

JORDAN was dressing with jerky movements, his muscled back firmly turned towards Kelly as he sat on the side of the bed. Kelly resisted the impulse to reach out and touch that rippling flesh; Jordan’s mood was still an unknown quantity to her.

She lay beneath the sheet, the clothes she had been wearing until an hour ago scattered all over the floor where Jordan had thrown them. Kelly thought that one or two of these garments would be damaged beyond repair—Jordan’s impatience had not allowed for buttons and catches.

What had followed this frenzied removal of her clothes had been totally unlike anything she and Jordan had ever shared before. Jordan had made love to her as if he physically wanted to hurt her, with none of his usual gentle arousal in evidence. In the end he had Kelly clinging to him unashamedly, eagerly telling him everything he wanted to know about this afternoon. Finally he had seemed to accept that her visit to Maggie was the truth, and took her with a fierceness akin to rape.

Kelly loved every second of his possession, knowing that while she loved him it could never be called anything as ugly as rape. But Jordan had turned away from her the moment their heartbeats steadied, and he was even now dressing to leave her.

‘Jordan…’ her voice was tentative.

‘Yes?’ the single word rapped out angrily.

‘Do you believe me now?’ She at last dared to touch the warmth of his back, instantly feeling him flinch away from her. ‘Jordan?’ she bit her lip as he stood up.

‘Yes, I believe you.’ He buttoned his shirt, tucking it back into his trousers. ‘There are certain circumstances under which you never lie. This was one of them,’ he said harshly.

Kelly had always believed lovemaking was a way of being emotionally close to someone as well as physically, but Jordan was even more remote to her at this moment than he had ever been. And now he was leaving the room, without a single word to say to her.

When he had gone she collapsed against the pillows in a fit of uncontrollable weeping. He had just proved, in the most humiliating way possible, that she was still just a body to him. She couldn’t let it continue, not under these circumstances. She would ask Mrs McLeod to prepare a separate bedroom for Jordan tonight.

Her father returned from the hospital just before dinner, and Kelly took the opportunity to see the housekeeper while the two men were having a pre-dinner drink.

‘Oh, but it’s already been arranged,’ the housekeeper assured Kelly at her request.

She blinked hard. ‘It has?’

‘Yes. Mr Lord spoke to me about it earlier.’

Kelly paled. ‘He did?’

‘Mm,’ Mrs McLeod nodded. ‘He explained that his insomnia is disturbing you.’

Jordan’s lack of sleep did disturb her, but not in the way he had implied to the housekeeper! ‘I see,’ she bit her lip, giving a strained smile. ‘Well, as long as it’s been sorted out. I—I think I’ll join the men in the lounge.

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