Coming Back for His Bride by Abigail Gordon

Author:Abigail Gordon [Gordon, Abigail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460376331
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE sound of the car reversing noisily behind them brought the kiss to an end and Isabel out of Ross’s arms.

‘What’s wrong?’ he asked as it sped off into the night. ‘Was it someone you know?’

‘It looked like the car that Stephen picked me up in earlier.’

‘So if he hasn’t got the message now, he never will,’ Ross said, unperturbed, then added more seriously with his gaze on the lips that were still warm from his kiss, ‘What is more important is what sort of a message you were getting when we were interrupted. I wouldn’t want you to get any wrong ideas.’

‘Such as?’ she questioned flatly, as the magic drained away.

‘That I would pursue you just to get at your father, as that was what you were suggesting, wasn’t it?’

‘I said it on the spur of the moment as I don’t think that either of us have anything to thank him for.’

‘Much as I don’t like the man, that isn’t true,’ he said levelly. ‘You might never have entered the profession that you enjoy so much if it hadn’t been for your father’s scheming, and he has given me the chance to come back to the place where I’ve always wanted to be.’

‘Look, Ross,’ she said angrily. ‘I can see that you’re regretting what just happened between us and I suppose I can’t blame you. Once bitten twice shy when it comes to the likes of me, I suppose. I’ve just told you that I said what I did about calling my father’s bluff without thinking. I suppose in my own stupid way I was throwing out a challenge. It won’t happen again. In future I will consider every word before I say it. This has been a strange evening, spent with two different men. I suppose I should consider myself lucky. Except that one of them couldn’t keep his hands off me and the other forgot himself for a moment and couldn’t wait to tell me how much he regretted it.

‘Thanks for walking me home and rescuing me from that man. But I would have managed on my own, as I’ve had to do for as long as I can remember, if you hadn’t shown up.’

‘Have you quite finished putting me in my place?’ he said calmly, when she stopped for breath.

‘Yes.’

‘Good. Then I’ll be off, until we meet again on Monday morning, bright and early.’

‘Of course,’ she said abruptly, with the thought that ‘early’ she might be, but ‘bright’? Not after tonight!

* * *

He was a fool, Ross thought as he walked home through the moonlit night. Not for rescuing Izzy from the clutches of the lecherous neurologist—he could no more have sat around and done nothing about that than fly to the moon. He was calling himself a fool because he’d done the very thing he’d promised himself he wouldn’t do, let Izzy get to him.

It had been as natural as breathing to take her in his arms and kiss the mouth that was reaching

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