His First Noelle by Rhonda Nelson

Author:Rhonda Nelson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781459249172
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

9

THOUGH SHE WOULDN’T have imagined it possible in such a small space with very limited choices available for entertainment, somehow Judd had managed to avoid her for the past two days. Oh, they’d shared meals, of course, but only because they both were conditioned to eating around the same time. And really, had he refused to put his feet under the table when she did, it would have been only too obvious that he was deliberately trying to stay away from her.

She knew why, of course. Saw it every time he looked at her, every time that black as sin gaze collided with hers or slipped scorchingly over her body.

Nevertheless, irrationally, his strictly professional behavior had hurt her feelings.

Which was ridiculous, she knew, but she couldn’t seem to help herself. The portion of her brain responsible for logical thought was aware that his pulling back was more than likely a blessing in disguise—even if it didn’t feel like one-and that she should congratulate herself on having a bodyguard who could hold fast to his resolve. She knew all of that, even secretly applauded his self-control because, admittedly, it was far more powerful than hers.

So why, then, had she been deliberately trying to sabotage him? To push him so far past the breaking point that he ultimately snapped? Why was she so hell-bent and determined to bend that iron will?

Because it infuriated her, Noelle ultimately concluded. She’d never cared about being irresistible before, but now suddenly—because of him—she did. She knew that everything about this impossible situation had gotten all twisted up in her head, knew she wasn’t thinking rationally. She knew. And yet...

She wanted.

And, more importantly, she wanted him to want her so much that he jumped the chain and wanted her more.

The morning following their arrival, she’d awoken to no evidence of the honeymoon theme at all, other than the rose petals that had been left from inside her door to her bed. The ones leading up to it had been painstakingly picked up—it must have taken him hours to do it without the aid of a vacuum cleaner and, though she was a deep sleeper, she was relatively certain she would have heard that.

The banner had been taken down from the balcony railing, the basket and champagne gone from the bar. She would have liked to have had a little of that chocolate, Noelle thought, mildly perturbed, but she didn’t dare ask about it because to do so would acknowledge that she’d noticed he’d made the changes. She was particularly concerned about the whereabouts of that feather—she’d spent entirely too much time picturing it against his skin—and hoped that he hadn’t thrown it away. Ultimately, though, since he’d decided to pretend as if they weren’t attracted to one another, pride prevented her from bringing it up.

But it didn’t prevent her from going downstairs in her towel.

Often, with varying amounts of water on her skin.

She couldn’t believe she was behaving so shamefully, but then she’d never met anyone like him before either.

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