Dream Groom by Susan Mallery

Author:Susan Mallery [Susan Mallery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

RYAN LEANED AGAINST the windowsill and closed his eyes. He could still feel the heat of Cassie’s body pressed against his and taste her sweetness on his tongue. A tremor ripped through him. It didn’t matter that he was fifteen different kinds of bastard, the wanting inside of him was the most powerful force he’d ever experienced.

The sound of her footsteps died away. There was a moment of silence, followed by a door closing on the second floor. She’d run from him. He hated that she’d done that, but he couldn’t blame her. What the hell had he been thinking?

He crossed over to his desk and sank into the leather chair. His breathing still came in gasps and his arousal ached. He had a bad feeling he was going to spend the next several hours in a lot of pain. Still, none of that mattered. The real problem was that he hadn’t been thinking. He’d been feeling and reacting.

The questions of right and wrong, of what was proper and decent hadn’t occurred to him. One minute they’d been talking and the next she’d been so damn close that he couldn’t help himself.

He’d lost control. He, Ryan Lawford, who always played the mating game by the rules, had lost control with a young woman who didn’t understand there was a game in progress. He’d been blindsided by a virtual innocent. Joel had been the only man in her life, so she should have been the one in over her head. Instead he’dbeen the one to plunge headlong into passion.

Guilt crept through him, seeping into the cells of his body, replacing the wanting with something cold and ugly.

He’d had no right to touch her. She worked for him. He swore again and wondered what had gone wrong. He’d never once flirted with an employee, let alone dated or kissed one. He’d always been able to separate business from pleasure. To be honest, in the past he’d never been tempted to cross the line. The fact that he’d only done it once didn’t make him feel any better. What he’d done was wrong. Cassie not only worked for him, she worked for him in his house. She was completely vulnerable and at his mercy by virtue of her living under the same roof. He owed her respect. He owed her a work environment in which she felt safe. He owed her the right to get through her day without worrying that she was going to be groped at every turn.

But that wasn’t his only sin. There was also the issue of her involvement with Joel. Cassie was practically engaged to the younger man. He, Ryan, had no business trying to seduce her. If she’d been unattached it still would have been wrong, but this made it unforgivable.

What had happened? Why her? She wasn’t his type. He ignored the voice inside that whispered he didn’t have a type. She was too young, too inexperienced, too different from the women who regularly drifted through his world.

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