Full Bloom by Jayne Ann Krentz

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 9781585478767
Publisher: Center Point Pub.
Published: 2007-01-15T21:25:22.656000+00:00

SEVEN

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She’d had the nerve to claim she had been trying to protect him. Jacob did not know which infuriated him most—having Emily use him and her RI shares to threaten her family, or having her claim afterward that she had only done it to protect him from Ravenscroft wrath.

He could not believe she had actually thought he needed protecting, so he dismissed her claim out of hand. That meant his initial analysis had to have been right. She had finally taken her stand against her family in a big way, and Jacob found himself being used as a pawn.

It was the only logical explanation, he told himself over and over again.

She could not possibly have been so witless as to actually think she had to do something that dramatic to protect him.

Could she?

Several hours later, at two in the morning to be exact, Jacob was awake, pacing the living room of his apartment and agonizing over the way he had handled Emily’s bold act of assertiveness.

It was unlike him to agonize over any decision, and Jacob was as furious with himself for his own uneasiness as he had been earlier with Emily.

He stalked barefoot into the kitchen and reached into a cupboard for a bottle of medicinal Scotch. It was going to be a long night, and the knowledge that Emily was spending it not more than a couple of miles away in a lonely hotel room did not make things any easier.

He had to stand firm on this, Jacob reminded himself for the thousandth time as he splashed a healthy swallow of Scotch into a water glass. He was not normally a tolerant man, but he had long ago realized he would probably tolerate almost anything from Emily. Still, he had to draw some lines with her.

Dammit, he wanted her to want him for himself, not because she had decided he was strong enough to be used in a power play against her family.

Jacob tossed back the Scotch and prowled restlessly back out into the living room. From his window he could see the lights of the hotel where Emily was staying. It was torture to stand here thinking about how good it would be to spend the night in Emily’s bed. Self-inflicted torture. He must be turning into some sort of stupid masochist.

But it would be even more masochistic to let her turn him into a club that she could use to beat the other Ravenscrofts over the head.

It was obvious to Jacob that in the past couple of years Emily had finally begun to tap into her own strength as a woman and as a Ravenscroft. Until tonight he had been glad to see the transformation, aware that she had come into her own and aware, too, that on some level she was free to love him now.

But tonight Jacob had been shattered to discover that her motives for becoming involved with him were not the simple, straightforward result of womanly passion.

He did not doubt the passion.

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