Gambler's Woman by Jayne Ann Krentz

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz [Krentz, Jayne Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HQN
Published: 1983-11-07T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

IT TOOK ALMOST TWENTY SECONDS FOR Alyssa’s shock to wear off, and by then it was too late. Jordan was already striding through her bedroom door with his captive securely in his arms when her outrage finally overcame the stunned paralysis.

“Put me down,” she demanded, her sea-colored eyes more green than gray as they reflected the full force of her rising fury. “I mean it, Jordan. Let me go this instant! You have absolutely no right to treat me this way. I won’t tolerate it! Do you hear me?”

“I hear you. Do you always sound this shrewish when things aren’t going exactly as you planned them?” He seemed more interested than alarmed, and Alyssa felt anger sizzling in her blood stream.

Anger and something else. Would there always be an underlying element of passion coursing through her whenever this man touched her? That thought made her even more furious, and she used her gilded coral nails with sharp effect on his shoulders. Since she had slid her fingertips inside the collar of the suede jacket, he had no protection against the savage little attack. “Damn you, Jordan, I won’t be treated like this!”

He sucked in his breath and she sank her nails into the fabric of his dark shirt, and then he simply opened his arms and let her fall. The unexpected release startled her, and she parted her lips to cry out. But the bed came up to meet her before the small sound escaped, and she sprawled awkwardly on the thick, sand-colored quilt.

“You,” he announced grimly, leaning forward to plant a hand on either side of her, “are going to learn a few facts about me tonight that apparently escaped you last weekend. The most important of which is that as long as I’m in your life, I’m really in your life, every aspect of it. You can’t relegate me to the weekends and come back here to Ventura to flirt with that Davis character.”

“I wasn’t flirting with him!” Struggling to sit up and finding it impossible, Alyssa lay trapped within the cage of his arms, her eyes glinting with resentment and, perhaps, a small tinge of fear. She didn’t want to acknowledge the fear, however. She refused to acknowledge it. Her determination not to do so led her to add rashly, “But even if I were, you’d have no right to object!”

His face hardened, and his eyes resembled more than ever those of a hunting cat. Where was the charmingly polite gambler? The man who had woven a spell of seduction last weekend? The man who had so entranced her guests tonight? Alyssa lay very still and tried to retain her nerve.

“He was watching you every time you moved, and I’m not the only one who noticed. His wife was aware of what was going on, too. Are you having an affair with Hugh Davis? An amusing little interlude to occupy you during the week until the weekend rolls around and you can hop a plane to

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