Confidential Attraction by Brenda Jackson

Author:Brenda Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Eight

She wasn’t coming.

Mark blinked, realizing that his gaze had been riveted on his bedroom door ever since he had left Alli standing in the hall. He glanced at the clock on the nightstand. Twenty minutes had passed.

His stomach tumbled in disappointment, but he accepted her decision. After all, he wasn’t offering her anything except pleasure and for her that might not be enough.

But that was all he could give her.

He had made sure he thoroughly explained that, not wanting to take a chance on there being any misunderstandings. A misunderstanding would not be a good situation for either of them. He had wanted her to know the score.

Knowing sleep was impossible, he threw back the covers and got out of bed to walk over to the window that overlooked the back of his property. From the moon’s satiny glow, he could see the outlines of the meadows and valleys that were Hartman land. As a child he had loved it here, but as a teenager he had counted the days before he could leave. Both he and Matt had sworn never to return as long as their old man had lived. And they never had.

Mark’s body jolted to attention when he heard his bedroom door opening and he held his breath, too afraid to turn around for fear he had just imagined the sound. But moments later when he heard the soft sound of bare footsteps touching the wood floor, and inhaled the scent that was distinctively Alli, he knew he wasn’t imagining things.

With his pulse racing a mile a minute, he forced back the surge of desire that rammed his body as he slowly turned around. His gaze went to her face and watched as a nervous smile touched her lips.

“I’m here,” she whispered softly, and the seductively quiet voice sent his pulse racing even more.

His breath hitched and the only words he could manage to say while his brain seemed not to be functioning were, “Thank you for coming.”

His gaze then took in what she was wearing. She had changed from the tea-length nightgown and matching robe she’d had on earlier to a more seductive outfit. Now she was wearing a very short, red silk sleep shirt that did more than just complement her chocolate-brown skin. And with her five-eight height and long, gorgeous legs, the outfit looked both feminine and sexy on her.

“I didn’t think you were coming,” he said huskily, abruptly aware that the room was filled with the sound of their uneven breathing.

She smiled wryly and he saw the nervousness begin to ease from her features. “I wanted to put on something that I thought would be more appropriate.”

Doesn’t matter since I plan to remove every stitch from you, he thought, slowly dropping his gaze to rake it over her. Moments later he was staring back into the beautiful face that had haunted his dreams for nearly two years; whether he had wanted it to or not.

Is she sure about this? he wondered, as he swallowed the lump that suddenly appeared in his throat.

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