Heated Fantasies by Elizabeth Lapthorne

Author:Elizabeth Lapthorne [Lapthorne, Elizabeth]
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2010-01-07T07:33:30+00:00

Chapter Eight

Clare sat frowning once again at the holo-screen. She knew she should try typing, doing her work. She should even be sitting here basking in her gratefulness that Simeon came by and showed her how to unlock the wretched machine. Yet instead of merrily clicking away as she really should be, she was trying hard not to think about the way he had smiled at her, the dark twinkle in his drop-dead-gorgeous brown eyes.

Even before she had found herself somewhere over the rainbow, it had been an age since she had found herself so very turned on by any one man. Sure, she dated like most other single women her age, she even quite enjoyed the subtle game of getting-to-know-you and cat-and-mouse most people involved themselves in.

Yet it had been years since her knees had quivered, more years than she cared to contemplate since a single glance from a man, any man, had dampened her panties like Simeon had.

What is it about him? she mused silently to herself, dropping any pretense of trying to work. She rested her chin on her bent hand and gazed blindly into space.

Sure, the man was drop-dead make-you-come-with-barely-a-look gorgeous, but so were half the models in her Playgirl magazines, one of the few things she truly missed from home.

She smiled as she could clearly picture each and every male model agency back home clamoring at Simeon’s door, begging for him to sign a contract. Sales would literally go through the roof on any damn thing he tried to sell with those warm, knowing eyes and that cheeky, cocky knowing smile he seemed to bestow upon her without a thought.

She worried her lower lip, tried to drag her wayward thoughts back to where she wanted them.

“I was thinking, Clare,” came his deep voice from behind her. She started, and turned around slowly, her hands flying to the papers she had wanted to enter into the database earlier this morning.

“Really?” she said weakly, relieved to remember he said he couldn’t read her mind. She would simply die of mortification if he had even an inkling of how idolized and schoolgirl-horny her thoughts had been. “Did it hurt much? You really shouldn’t stretch yourself like that, you know. Overusing that brain of yours might be painful later on.”

She cringed at the shaky but sarcastic humor in her voice. Way to boost yourself in his eyes, Clare, she silently chided herself. Insult the vampire’s intelligence like you would a university student stepping out of line. Way to go, girl!

She felt herself relax infinitesimally as he laughed and didn’t take offense. There had been no heat, no real insult meant behind the words, it had been more a reflex stemming from embarrassment, but it didn’t mean it couldn’t have backfired horridly on her.

“I do apologize for being harsh earlier, Clare,” Simeon said with aplomb. For a split second Clare envied him the way he could appear genuinely apologetic while still remaining proud and manly. How the hell did he manage that? “Let me make it up to you,” he continued, barely pausing for breath.

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