Fear of Love by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488031922
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1980-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

ALEXANDRA stiffened in his arms. ‘I’m not asking you for marriage.’

‘Not ever?’ His hold on her arms didn’t slacken as he forced her to look at him. ‘Are you saying you would never ask me for marriage?’

Alexandra bit her lip, her eyes never flinching from his steely grey ones. ‘Not if you don’t want it,’ she answered breathlessly.

His fingers bit into her tender flesh. ‘You would go on for years never knowing whether the next day was going to be the day I did find the woman I want to marry, you would be my mistress with none of the security of marriage? Would you be prepared to do that, Alex?’

‘There’s no security even in marriage if you don’t have love,’ she evaded.

‘That wasn’t the question,’ Dominic insisted grimly.

She wrenched out of his arms, glaring her resentment at him. ‘Yes, I’ll do that if it’s what you want! I don’t have any choice, do I?’

‘Yes, you have a choice.’ To her surprise he smiled. ‘When I said I wouldn’t marry you, I meant I wouldn’t marry you now.’

Alexandra frowned. ‘I don’t understand you.’

Dominic sat down. ‘When you asked Gail and Trevor for permission to marry Roger you’d only known him for a few months; we’ve discovered we’re attracted to each other in only a matter of days.’

‘Time doesn’t matter,’ she interrupted.

‘Of course it matters,’ he denied tersely. ‘I disapproved of your marrying him because of your youth and the fact that you hadn’t been going out together very long. Neither of those reasons is any different just because of a change of boy-friend. I couldn’t ask Gail and Trevor to change their minds just because it’s me, that would be like admitting we were unsure of how we felt.’

‘You haven’t told me how you feel yet, only that you’ve been thinking about me.’

Dominic grinned, beckoning her over to him. ‘I would rather show you,’ he drawled throatily.

She blushed profusely. ‘You’re embarrassing me.’

‘Then come here,’ he invited softly. ‘If I can touch you perhaps I won’t keep staring at you.’

Alexandra looked down self-consciously. ‘This wasn’t the way I wanted it to be. I wanted to be wearing a floating black creation, my hair in a sophisticated style, everything about me sophisticated. Instead of which I’m wearing these awful denims and this green sun-top. I didn’t think at the time, I just grabbed the first thing I laid my hands on.’ She was babbling again, but somehow the look in his eyes had that effect on her.

He lay slumped down in the chair. ‘I wouldn’t care if you were wearing nothing—in fact I would prefer it.’ He chuckled at her embarrassment. ‘If you intend being my girl-friend you’ll have to get used to remarks like that.’

She came forward hesitantly, coming to stand in front of his splayed legs. ‘Am I going to be your girl-friend?’

‘Oh, I think so, don’t you?’ He put out a hand to grasp her wrist, pulling her down into his arms. ‘Somehow I don’t feel tired any more.

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