Her Lion Protector [The Protectors 3] (Siren Publishing Allure) by Doris O'Connor

Author:Doris O'Connor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2015-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Rebecca’s heart beat so fast, she wasn’t sure how she managed to make it into her flat. It was tiny, but it was hers, and completely self-sufficient. She hastily snatched her bra off the dining chair, and indicated for Leon to sit down. He did so slowly after a long considering look she couldn’t decipher.

The bed would have been more comfortable for him, but she didn’t think he would want to go near that, and sure enough the way he scowled at her frilly bedspread told volumes.

“Stay there, I’m just gonna wash my hands, and put the kettle on,” she said, and Leon shook his head.

“No need, this isn’t a fucking social call. I don’t need tea and biscuits. You said you can heal my leg, so do it already, and then I’m off, or was that just more bullshit designed to get me back here.”

The words stung and ripped all the wounds in Rebecca’s heart wide open. She couldn’t stop her soft gasp of anguish, and Leon’s head whipped up. The ice in his normally so warm eyes made her rub her arms to chase the goose bumps away, and they stared at each other for the longest time. Even with his scowl and his frosty demeanor he still looked utterly edible to her. Probably more so, because he screamed bad boy. She’d heard of his exploits.

It seemed her decision all those years ago, had had long-reaching consequences. The easygoing Leon had disappeared, and in his place was a somewhat cynical, arrogant man who took his pleasures where he found them. None of the women he bedded had a bad thing to say about him, in fact they usually wanted more, but he never fucked the same woman twice. He didn’t do relationships it seemed, which had always kind of reassured her in a rather perverse way. Rebecca didn’t think she could have coped with him settling down and playing the happy-ever-after game with someone else, which was incredibly selfish of her, but he was hers, damn it. If only she could get him to give her another chance.

“What?” he finally said. “Did you expect me to just forgive and forget? You had your chance, and you blew it. I’m not that love-struck idiot anymore.”

Rebecca blinked away tears and his harsh features softened slightly, before he seemed to catch himself, and the hard mask came back down again. It had been such a fleeting moment, Rebecca would have thought she’d imagined it, but her heart jumped about like a demented rabbit. Truly, he wouldn’t have even shown that glimmer of emotion, if he didn’t care for her at least a little, still?

“I never thought of you as any kind of idiot, Sir.”

His lion’s growl shook the floor, and she took an involuntary step back at the sheer fury that emanated from him.

“Do not call me that, girl.”

Rebecca flinched under his glare, but she was determined to have this out with him once and for all.

“Why not? It’s the title you deserve, and I’m just showing my respect, Sir.

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