Hollow Vows by Alexandra Scott

Author:Alexandra Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1995-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

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‘Aaah.’ An endless sound of satisfaction broke from her lips as she stirred sleepily and turned on to her side, smiling as her hands traced the length of one thigh then came up to measure the narrowness of her waist. ‘Aaah,’ she sighed again as certain images of the previous night returned. Who could have thought a hot shower would offer such pleasure? Of course—her lips curved still more complacently at the recollection—it was the first time she had shared...

And even afterwards, wrapped in his warm towel robe, drinking hot chocolate while drying her hair lying on the rug in front of an electric fire... And what came after, when he carried her back to the bedroom, she would never, ever have believed... Sleep began to reclaim...

‘Must we—’ his mouth was even now travelling the length of her cheek, stopped beside her mouth while his hands... Half-heartedly she caught at them ‘—must we, do you think, Briony, really go back today?’

‘We must.’ No matter how he cajoled, she felt duty-bound to go back to work. ‘But not yet; it’s still early.’ She snuggled more deeply among the covers. ‘And sleep, remember.’ Impossible to conceal the smile of reminiscence. ‘That was what Clive said, and yet you persist...’

‘And you...’ His mouth was on hers, forceful, gentle, bewilderingly potent in the way it coaxed her lips to part. ‘You loved it. Confess.’

‘Mmm.’ Her sense of pleasure, of eager impatience, was dimming her sense of discretion, making her careless. ‘Isn’t it strange, Finn. I never dreamed it would be like this, that sex on its own could be such sheer intense pleasure. So pleasurable.’ Her tongue savoured the sound of the word as much as her memory did the act. ‘So wonderfully...perfect. So sensual.’ Unconscious that the fingers circling her breast had grown still, his mood of relaxation and indulgence had become taut, she allowed her half dreaming thoughts expression. ‘I would never have believed it could be so perfect in the absence of some pretty strong emotional attachment.’

His silence, an unexpected atmosphere of tension and strain, made the heavy eyelids flicker then sweep back in time to see him standing by the side of the bed, looking down at her with a cold, bleak anger which made her shiver.

He strode to the door, a dark, magnificent and at that moment dangerous animal. ‘You’re quite right, of course, it is time to go back. Possibly it was, after all, a mistake to come.’ The door closed, but not quickly enough entirely to damp out his final words which sounded suspiciously like, ‘Damn you, Briony.’

For a moment she lay quivering on the bed, unable to understand why the mood had so quickly changed from euphoria to black and abject misery. And then her own words were sounding in her ears, and she understood how much reason he had for his anger. A few tears came and she allowed them to run down her cheeks, into her ears and on to the pillows. But then, seeing the futility of it, she decided there was nothing for it but to get up.

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