Captive Splendors by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels [Michaels, Fern]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Caleb woke, immediately aware of where he was and what had occurred between him and Sara Stoneham. He stretched his long-muscled limbs and felt them come to life. There was no denying he was much better, recovering nicely from the injuries he had sustained during the storm. A man had to be in fine fettle to satisfy a woman the way he had just satisfied Sara. He could still hear the sound of his name on her lips as one wave of passion had followed another. He smiled, self-assured that his injuries had in no way affected his performance in bed.

He supposed he should be feeling somewhat guilty about Sara. He knew he entertained no thoughts of a deeper attachment to her, except perhaps another encounter beneath the sheets. He had no desire to play the part of a love-sick puppy. It had been a pleasurable interlude, and somehow he had the impression that little Miss Stoneham was more versed in the arts of love than she had let on. And he hadn’t been disappointed to discover that she wasn’t a virgin. Virgins, he told himself, are bothersome creatures. He was tired of breaking them in for some other man to enjoy. He’d take a woman of experience any day.

As happened so often lately, whenever his thoughts were on women, somehow they traveled to Wren. He would have to seek her out and explain to her that his plans included taking her back to Sirena and Regan, even if that meant bringing her all the way to Java. And the sooner the better. Why did he keep postponing the inevitable? Before long he would have to face her, something he had been avoiding to keep from remembering how she had felt beside him in the bunk, his arms wrapped protectively about her. How she had called his name and how he had answered. How he had buried his face in her wealth of dark hair and groaned at his inadequacy to make her well. She couldn’t mean anything to him, he wouldn’t allow it. She was a sister of sorts. A street urchin whom Sirena had defended and generously adopted. His only obligation to her was that of a brother bent on avenging his sister, regardless of her insistence that she had avenged herself. Then why did you give orders to the crew to bar her from the wheelhouse? a niggling voice questioned.

How well he remembered the first day he had seen Wren. The image of her as a child was almost impossible to keep from his thoughts. As well as the sound of Sirena’s hushed murmur to Frau Holtz that Wren was his destiny. Why did those words persist in revolving around his head? He must not have heard correctly. How could a woman be a man’s destiny? Bah! he snorted as he swung his legs over the side of the bunk.

One leg in his trousers, he stopped and almost fell to the floor. Sirena had been Regan’s destiny. He had known it before either of them.

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