Enemy Mine by Kay Hooper

Author:Kay Hooper [Hooper, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Suspense, Contemporary, Large Type Books, Antique Dealers, Colombia
ISBN: 9780515139266
Publisher: Jove
Published: 1989-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

After a moment he stirred and said with deliberate dryness, "So you need to make a clear, rational, logical decision to take a lover."

Tyler felt heat flood her cheeks, although she couldn't have said why. "It isn't as cold-blooded as you make it sound," she objected.

"That's just what it is. Tyler, by its very definition, physical desire is something we don't control—it controls us. It's a drive, an instinct millions of years old, it isn't a logical thing." Keeping his voice deliberate, he went on, "So what happens if you coolly decide at some future date that you're ready to take a lover—and the desire isn't there? Will you just find some likely candidate because you'd rather betray your body than your mind?"

The flush drained from Tyler's face, and she stared at him. "No! I'd never ..."

Kane went on as if she hadn't spoken. "We've got— what?—a few weeks ahead of us at best?

Then we go our separate ways, with or without the second chalice. You back to London, me back to the States. And maybe we'll run into each other six months or a year from now. Or maybe not."

"So it's now or never, is that what you're saying?" Her amber eyes had begun to glitter with anger.

"Lust today, for tomorrow we may die?"

He didn't have to force his grin. As always, he had found the quickest and surest way of angering her. This was the Tyler who would fight him on a level where he stood a chance, and he felt no remorse at needling her. Her guarded posture had altered to become stiff annoyance; rage had chased the shadows from her eyes and she looked like a cat about to hiss and claw at him.

In a mild voice he said, "You're the one who has to make a choice, Ty. It's up to you. I was just pointing out one of your options."

Her glare narrowed. "Well, you made the point."

"Good." He nodded briskly. "Then why don't we finish eating and get some more sleep. Tonio wants to leave before nine in the morning."

Tyler blinked, then picked her spoon back up and began eating the cool soup. He had shaken her off balance again, damn him. Determined to keep that knowledge to herself, she managed to hold her voice calm and steady. "Tonio? Your friend with the plane, I assume."

"Right. He's going to fly us to Santa Marta. Where, you'll be interested to hear, there's a cargo ship now loading. Her destination is Greece."

She stared at him as an uneasy suspicion prickled in her mind. "Don't tell me."

"Afraid so. Dimitri's ship." Kane smiled a little, but said, "Sorry, Ty, but it's the only ship heading in the right direction, and it will take us all the way to Italy."

Tyler lost her appetite. She put down her spoon again and took a drink of her milk. "Great. That's just great. I'll have to spend days on a ship that should have sunk from sheer age a decade ago, being

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