Imprisoned by a Vow

Author:Annie West
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-08-18T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

WHAT HE’D DONE to deserve Leila in his bed, Joss didn’t know. He did know she was different. This thing between them was different—more intense than anything he’d experienced.

Every touch, every look, grazed through the layers of familiarity, even boredom, that had accumulated after so many easy lovers.

This wasn’t easy. This was heart-poundingly raw and hard and unfamiliar. He felt passion so potent it caught his throat as he stripped her dress to reveal the woman who’d haunted his thoughts.

His wife.

Was that why this seemed profound? Some remnant of primitive male instinct to possess his woman? Was that what invested her sleek, alluring body with such fascination?

His wife. His woman.

Joss shook his head. He didn’t want to own her, just possess her long enough to find the mutual pleasure that had teased for weeks. He had no interest in a lifelong partner.

As for the tremor in his hands as he ripped open his shirt—eagerness, that was all.

His gaze raked her body, bare but for an innocent-looking cream bra and panties. He’d been wrong to worry she was anorexic. Slim, yes, delicate in a supple way that hinted at hidden strength, ripe in all the right places.

His heart hammered.

‘Take your hair down.’ The words grated as he wrenched out of his jacket and shirt together. Even the weight of air on his bare torso was heavy on sensitised skin. How would it be when Leila caressed him?

His gaze dropped to her sultry mouth as she reached to undo her necklace. He imagined her lips on his flesh, and his body spasmed tight in anticipation.

She dropped the pendant on the bedside table, drawing his gaze, reminding him of the need to grab the protection he kept close.

Abruptly he levered himself up, his mouth tightening in a crooked smile at her instinctive protest.

‘Just for a moment, sweetheart.’ Standing, he bent to kiss her stomach. The taste of her was addictive, and her scent, like sandalwood and sunshine, sent blood rushing urgently through his veins. He paused, swirling his tongue in her navel, biting a line of gentle nips down her flat belly to the top of her panties. He couldn’t resist cupping her there, through the fragile fabric. She was hot and wet, pushing up against his palm with gratifying urgency.

‘Soon,’ he promised, planting a kiss where his hand had been and feeling her quake in response.

Joss fumbled with the rest of his clothes and the condom, hands shaking in his urgency. When he turned, her hair was spread wide around her shoulders, a ripple of voluptuous satin. Her eyes were huge in the moonlight, flickering down to his groin then back to his face.

That hint of trepidation would have been gratifying if he weren’t so painfully aroused.

As it was he barely had the patience to strip her underwear without tearing it from her body. Then she was naked beneath him and he stilled in awe.

‘You’re more beautiful than I could have imagined.’ He didn’t recognise his roughened voice.

Leila shook her head, reaching for his shoulders and drawing him down to lie on her soft skin and slippery silk tresses.

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