Gideon, Robin - Desire of the Phantom [Ecstasy in the Old West] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Robin Gideon

Author:Robin Gideon [Gideon, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Garrett was a jumble of chaotic emotions. Pamela knew? From the first moment he’d kissed her?

Not only had he been unsuccessful in hiding his identity as the Midnight Phantom from Pamela, but the attack by Angie Darwell added to his chaotic mental state. How was Pamela taking the accursed dance?

He followed her as she hurried through the crowd of people, her blue-green skirts rustling, her strides long and powerful. As Garrett increased his speed to catch up to her, she increased hers accordingly, and when she looked over her shoulder at him, there was a smile on her face, a brilliant green light shining in her eyes, and a glow to her that was at once exciting and mystifying.

What did Angie say to put Pamela in such a good mood? Garrett wondered as he picked up speed once again trying to catch her. Any faster and he’d be proceeding at an absolutely undignified jog, and though he already had much to explain, he didn’t want to have to add tackling her to stop her.

Maybe she wasn’t really in a good mood. Maybe it was feigned for his benefit, a brave facade put forward for him.

She had said she wanted to make love. Though Garrett was reluctant to take advantage of a painful situation, the opportunity to make love to the beautiful Pamela was something he simply couldn’t resist

He reached out, his fingertips almost touching the puffed shoulder of her gown. Pamela looked at him once again over her shoulder, and a giggle of delight escaped her moist, lightly rouged, utterly kissable lips. She raised her skirts just a little, striding even faster than before, almost running now.

“Damn it, Pamela, wait,” Garrett said, much more loudly than he’d wanted to.

The expressions on the guests he passed had ranged from sympathetic to confused. The dance was buzzing with the news of what Angie had done and said to Pamela. But only Garrett realized that Angie’s cruelty had been the motivating force behind Pamela’s decision to flaunt convention and seduce the Midnight Phantom as quickly as possible.

An inebriated Andy Fields was standing in the foyer, near the base of the long, winding stairway leading up to the second floor. When he saw Garrett approaching so quickly, he grabbed his arm and held on tight. Garrett’s strength nearly toppled Fields over.

“What’s the rush, old boy?” Fields asked, weaving just a little, rather pleased with himself that he’d managed to stop Garrett. The two men were political rivals.

Garrett knocked Fields’s hand away, furious with the damn fool. Pamela was already ascending the stairs, providing a flash of white stocking and calf beneath the skirt she raised to make it easier for her to take the stairs quickly.

“There’s no need to be testy,” Fields continued, oblivious to all that was happening around him. “I just wanted to have a word with you.”

With every step, Pamela felt as though she had been freed from a gigantic spider web. Once ensnared, she’d tried to fit into that web, and the more she struggled to fit, the more entangled she’d become.

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