Highland 05 - The Dark Highlander by Karen Marie Moning

Author:Karen Marie Moning
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Erotica, ePub, Fiction
ISBN: 9780440237556
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2002-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

" 'Tis time, Chloe-lass," Dageus said.

"Wh-what do you mean?" Chloe asked warily. "Time for what?"

"It occurs to me that mayhap I've no' made my intentions clear," Dageus said with soft menace, stalking toward her.

"What intentions?" Though Chloe was determined to hold her ground, her cowardly feet had other plans. Traitorous little ninnies, they took a step backward for each step he took forward.

"My intentions about you."

"Oh, yes, you have," Chloe assured him hastily. "You want to seduce me. You've made that crystal clear. Any clearer would require an X rating. I'm not going to be just another one of your women. I'm not made like that. I can't leave my panties beneath a man's bed to be swept out with the trash. That's why I'm still a virgin, because it means something to me and I'm not going to toss my virginity at your charming feet just because you're the most gorgeous, fascinating man I've ever met and I happen to like your last name. Those are not good enough reasons." She nodded her head to punctuate the rush of words, then looked horrified by what she'd admitted at the last.

"The most gorgeous, fascinating man you've ever met?" he said, his dark eyes glittering.

"There are oodles of gorgeous men around. And dusty, boring ancient texts are fascinating too," she muttered. "Stay away from me. I'm not going to fall for your seduction."

"Doona you even wish to know my intentions?" he purred.

"No. Absolutely not. Go away." Her back struck the wall and she stumbled a little, then folded her arms across her chest and scowled up at him.

"I'm not going away. And I am going to tell you." He rested his palms against the wall on either side of her head, walling her in with his powerful body.

"I'm waiting with bated breath." She faked a delicate yawn and examined her cuticles.

"Chloe-lass, I'm going to keep you."

"Keep me, my ass," she snapped. "I don't agree to being kept."

"Forever," he said, with a chilling smile. "And you will."

"Argh! Can't I just not dream about that man one freaking night?" Chloe cried, rolling over in bed and pulling the pillow over her head.

He was on her mind incessantly when she was awake. She didn't think it was so much to ask to be able to escape him in her dreams. She'd even dreamed about him when she'd dozed on the airplane! And all the dreams had been so intensely detailed that they'd seemed almost real. In this one, she'd been able to smell the spicy man-scent of him, to feel his warm breath fanning her face when he'd informed her he was going to keep her.

As if!

What did her dream Dageus think? she brooded irritably. That such a barbaric, utterly Teutonic declaration would melt her to her toes?

Wait a minute, she thought, backtracking mentally--it had been her dream, which meant that it wasn't what he thought, but apparently what she was subconsciously thinking about.

Oh, Zanders, you are so not politically correct, she thought dismally.

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