Heart of Brass by Kate Cross

Author:Kate Cross [Cross, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Signet Eclipse
Published: 2012-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Luke woke up alone.

He glanced over his shoulder at the expanse of bed at his back, then propped himself up on his elbow to survey the room, but Arden wasn’t there. All that was left of her was a single silk stocking hanging limply from the footboard.

He’d never had a woman leave him before. “Arden?” No reply. She was well and truly gone then. The realization left a strange hollow feeling in the pit of his belly. If she’d left a few quid on the bedside he didn’t think he’d feel much more whorish than he did right then. He’d scratched her itch and now she was off doing whatever it was she did in this mausoleum of a house all day.

Although it was apparently his mausoleum. No wonder it had felt familiar to him. No wonder he’d climbed to her bedroom so easily that first night—instinct had taken over.

Just as some part of him had known to get that tattoo. He could still feel the soft brush of Arden’s lips against the ink feathers. He shivered. She had wanted him with a ferocity that matched his own. He’d never wanted to be inside a woman so desperately in all his life—not that he could remember anyway. Perhaps it had always felt like that with her. God help him, but he didn’t think he could manage three goes that close together again on a regular basis. Usually he liked to take his time, make the climax as good as possible, then pass out. But with Arden, he felt like a boy again—randy and eager. He came too quick but was ready for business again in a few moments. She hadn’t seemed to mind though, her orgasms outnumbering his.

Christ Automaton, but she was a sexual machine. She matched him thrust for thrust, against the wall, on her knees, on top of him. When he’d let sleep claim him he had thought for certain she would do the same, but if she had, she hadn’t slept for long.

He glanced at the clock on the mantel. Four o’clock. He’d been asleep for a little over an hour. At least his headache was gone.

Perhaps his wife had taken that with her.

His wife. It was the first time he thought of her that way without immediately feeling a sense of surprise. It was as though shagging her had somehow made it all more real. She was his now, and she would never belong to anyone else so long as he lived.

He had to make certain they both lived. That meant defeating the Company, a task far easier said than done, but if they could survive this immediate threat, there was a good chance they could have a future.

The thought of spending the rest of his days with one woman, in one place, used to scare the shite out of him. Before he had remembered who he was, he couldn’t stay in one place longer than a few weeks before the urge to roam came upon him.

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