Heiress Behind the Headlines by Caitlin Crews

Author:Caitlin Crews [Caitlin Crews]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4089-2616-1
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2011-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

HE WAS losing it.

Jack didn’t need another lacerating conversation with his grandfather to point that out to him. He was sprawled out in front of the fire with Larissa’s soft, delectable body on top of his, and he was still buried deep inside her. He should have thrown her out earlier as he had half intended to do, but, instead, the only place he’d thrown her had been to the floor—where she’d gone all too willingly, as unable to fight the shattering passion between them as he was. Now she had her face buried in his neck, and he could feel each shuddering breath she drew as she slowly came back down to earth.

He should not have felt so … peaceful.

He stroked her back as a besotted lover might, memorizing the delicate ridge of her backbone, the silken smoothness of her soft skin, the feminine swell of her hips and the sweetness of her firm bottom beneath his hands. He wanted her again, already. Always. Like a randy teenaged boy in the throes of his first crush. She called to him in ways he was still attempting to deny, even to himself—but there was no denying the fact that he couldn’t keep his hands off her. He couldn’t even stay away from her when he knew, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that she was no good for him.

She was addictive, and like all drugs, she would only destroy anyone foolish enough to fall under her spell. Jack knew it. He’d already kicked this habit once before.

She stirred against him then, making a soft noise into the crook of his neck that made him clench against a need he didn’t fully understand, and didn’t choose to investigate. She raised her head, and for a moment their eyes met. Hers were that always surprising, so unusual green, golden with passion and reflecting the glow of the fire. She was mesmerizing, no matter what else she was. Deadly, he thought, in the way of the sea all around them that crashed relentlessly into the rocky island shore again and again, with no thought to the consequences.

Her teeth worried her lower lip for a moment, and then she pulled herself up and off him, pulling her knees up beneath her and reaching for one of the throws that had ended up twisted around them. She pulled it around her like a shawl, with her free hand raking back that short glossy black hair that should not have made her look so ethereal.

He studied her in the flickering light of the fire, trying to see beneath the surface. Trying to understand how they had ended up here, when he had meant only to call her bluff all those nights back. It was getting harder and harder to remind himself of the ugly truth of her, when all he could see before him was her exquisite beauty, rendered in black and gold and rose tonight, as if she were a rich oil painting stretched lush and inviting across a canvas in some sunny gallery somewhere.

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