Dynasties (The Elliotts 1): Billionaire's Proposition by Leanne Banks

Author:Leanne Banks [Banks, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Silhouette Desire
Published: 2006-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

“Your guilt would spoil the enjoyment of the game,” she said, turning back around to face him, unable to resist responding to him.

“Something like that,” he said, his gaze holding hers the same way it used to when he’d looked at her as if she was the most fascinating woman in the world and he couldn’t get enough of her.

She should run screaming into her cold, dark apartment. Now, she told her feet. Go now.

Her feet, however, didn’t budge an inch.

Seven

Gannon could see the argument she was holding with herself flash in her eyes. His gut tightened. One of the things that had always fascinated him about Erika was the way her eyes told stories about what was going on inside her. He had the sense that if he paid attention, he could eventually read her like a book. She was a book he wanted to read again and again.

Breaking up with her had been necessary and he’d been mostly successful in putting her out of his mind, especially after she’d moved to HomeStyle. He hadn’t second-guessed his decision. Breaking up had been the right thing to do for both of them. When his grandfather, however, had issued the challenge for CEO at New Year’s, her image had shot to his mind, front and center.

Professionally Erika possessed a winning combination of drive and human insight. Personally she man aged to both comfort and challenge him, something no other woman had done.

“If you don’t come back to my place,” he said, lifting his hand to brush snowflakes from her hair, “I’ll start thinking you can’t resist me.”

Erika scowled. “You’re so full of yourself. Despite the fact that you’re loaded and entirely too good-looking, you are not all that and a bag of chips.”

“What’s not to love?” he asked, taunting a response out of her.

Her face turned serious. “At some point you have to love in order to be lovable.”

He felt the punch of her statement in his gut.

“But maybe you just haven’t found the right girl yet,” she said and smiled. “I’ll go to your apartment, but I need to grab a few things first.”

“You’re going in there in the dark?”

“It won’t be the first time,” she said and unlocked the door. “Probably won’t be the last.”

“Wait a minute,” he said to Erika, then turned to the driver. “Can you bring me the flashlight you keep in the glove compartment?” he asked and Carl brought it to him. “Take the car around the block if you need to.

We’ll be a few minutes.”

“We?” she asked, glancing back at Gannon in surprise. “You sure you can handle it?”

“I haven’t been in your place in a while. I want to see what you’ve done with it.”

“It’s not bad,” she said, automatically reaching for a light that didn’t turn on. “I got some help from a decorator that contributed to HomeStyle. But you may not get the whole effect since it’s so dark.”

“That’s okay. I really just wanted to smell it,” he said and inhaled the combined scents of peaches, vanilla and sugar cookies.

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