Elusive Passion by Smith Kathryn

Author:Smith, Kathryn [Smith, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780380816101
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2001-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

She was walking down a long, dark corridor. Searching. She was searching for something. She didn’t know what, but she knew she would find it soon.

Sinister shadows reached out for her, raising the hair on the back of her neck with their feathery caresses. She shivered despite the heat and quickened her step.

The house was completely silent except for the distant hum of voices. She remembered there was a party going on downstairs in the grand ballroom. She could dimly make out the first strains of Mozart as the orchestra began to play. The music filled her with a sense of dread. Odd, she always used to enjoy Mozart.

There was a door slightly ajar at the end of the hall. Lamplight peeked out around it. Slowly, she moved toward it, her heart hammering painfully against her ribs. She didn’t want to go inside the room, but she couldn’t stop. A force greater than her own will was propelling her legs.

The door swung open, allowing her full access to the room.

It was Ivan’s bedchamber. The crimson draperies and heavy oak furniture seemed debauched and sinister in the lamplight.

Ivan knelt over the still figure of a girl on the bed, his profile to her. He was nude, his large body knotted with thick muscle. His buttocks flexed as he pumped himself into her. His grunts mingled with her fearful gasps. His hands were wrapped around the girl’s throat; his face was flushed with exertion and sexual pleasure. He was strangling her.

Varya’s horrified gaze went to the girl, who turned terror-filled eyes toward her.

She ran toward the bed as the girl began to thrash underneath Ivan. Her flailing arms bounced off his arms and chest with as little consequence as a child’s.

“Get off her,” she screamed, tearing at his hair. He loosened his grip on the pale throat. She felt her nails rend his flesh, drawing blood, and she fought all the harder. She had to save the girl. He turned on her, snarling and she froze.

“You’re mine now, Varya,” Ivan growled.

It wasn’t Ivan.

Varya jerked upright in bed, a cry tearing free from her throat.

It was Miles.

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