Captive at Her Enemy's Command by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice [Rice, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781335419309
Amazon: 1335419306
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
Published: 2018-03-19T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

KATIE AWOKE THE next morning with a start to find herself alone. In her own bed. Sights, sounds and sensations bombarded her from the night before. She might almost have believed it was another erotic dream as she lay in the bright, airy room, the sun streaming through the balcony doors, but for the tenderness between her thighs and the oversize bathrobe she was still swaddled in.

Jared’s mouth hot on her breast, his penis hard and thick as he entered her, the all-consuming orgasm which had swept through her... And afterward the shock, the concern and—so much more devastating to her peace of mind—that tantalizing glimpse of the man behind the facade.

For a moment as he’d held her afterward she’d felt so secure, so safe.

She blinked, the sting of tears in the back of her throat almost as concerning as the melting sensation in her core.

She crawled out of bed and headed to the bathroom as numerous other niggling aches and pains made their presence felt. The scalding-hot shower went some way to restoring her equilibrium, or at least a semblance of it. But she still felt off-kilter.

She’d spent so long trying to suppress her mother’s legacy that on some weird subliminal level she’d simply assumed she would be able to sleep with Jared and forget about it. The way her mother had done with so many men.

The vague recollection of him carrying her back to her own room, and her sleepy attempts to get him to stay, made her shiver as she soaped her hair and tested the tenderness in her breasts.

How could she not have realized sex would be so...well, so intimate?

She tugged on a pair of shorts and a T-shirt, the shaky feeling returning as she recalled the look on Jared’s face when he’d come back out of the bathroom.

If she was reluctant to need a white knight, Jared was considerably more reluctant to be one.

The questions that had taunted her yesterday night swirled back into her brain.

Why didn’t he do emotional attachments? Quite apart from anything else, didn’t he get unbearably lonely?

While she’d always shied away from sexual intimacy, she’d found it incredibly hard to live without emotional intimacy, especially in the last few months.

How many times had she had to resist calling the De Rossis, homesick for the sound of Megan’s voice, Dario’s gruff advice, or Izzy’s inane prattle about unicorns, Disney Princesses and her latest Lego construction? How many times, particularly in the first few weeks, had she latched on to groups of people because being completely alone had terrified her? People like the German backpackers she’d partied with for one glorious weekend after meeting in an Amsterdam hostel. Or the bar staff in Paris she’d hung out with every night after lights out while working for a few weeks in a Bastille brasserie.

If anything, being alone had made her appreciate so much more the company of others.

A pang dug into the center of her chest. Why would anyone commit themselves to a

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