Innocent Maid for the Greek by Sharon Kendrick

Author:Sharon Kendrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-10-26T14:47:56+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘CONSIDERING YOU’VE WAITED “six long years” for this,’ quoted Theo softly as he began to unbutton his shirt, ‘you don’t look particularly excited.’

Mia opened her mouth to deny his accusation, but how could she when he’d touched on a raw nerve? Though it wasn’t a lack of excitement she was feeling. It was a sheer, primitive terror which seemed to have engulfed everything else. Because her scheme appeared to have backfired on her. She had resisted his kiss in the garden, primly insisting on going inside the house to have sex as if she made those kinds of decisions every minute of the day.

She’d been afraid of losing her virginity in a rapid and undignified way, by allowing herself to get carried away. What if she’d ended up leaning against some marble statue, or lying on an uncomfortable garden lounger which might leave unattractive basket-weave patterns on her bottom? She hadn’t said a word of this to Theo, of course, citing the fear of discovery as her reason for stalling. She licked her lips. The trouble was that now Theo obviously thought she was experienced, while nothing could be further from the truth.

He had shut the door of his bedroom quietly behind them and, after sliding the final shirt button from its confinement, was surveying her with a slow scrutiny which was making her heart race.

‘I suggest we strip off and get straight into bed,’ he said.

‘S-strip off?’ she verified cautiously.

‘I don’t know how much longer I can bear to prolong the anticipation,’ he confessed, his voice low and velvety. ‘Once I start kissing you again, I don’t know if I can trust myself not to rip that damned dress from your body. Which would be a shame.’ His gaze flickered over her cotton-covered curves. ‘Because it’s such a pretty dress.’

‘Okay,’ Mia agreed with a nod of her head, aware of the curls tickling her bare shoulders. She kicked off her sandals. ‘Why not?’

She swallowed as his shirt fluttered to the ground and he smiled as he met her widening eyes—as if her rapt voyeurism was perfectly normal. Was this what he usually did when he took a woman to bed? she wondered. Did he stand there removing his clothes with that look of lazy provocation glinting from his eyes, while she was expected to do the same?

Yet in a setting which must have seen far more experienced sexual participants than her, she remained as nervous as hell—and her environment wasn’t helping. It was a room which was a testament to masculinity and power. There was no softness here. The soaring dimensions and matchless view over the sapphire sea hinted at the wealth of its owner—as did the bold oil paintings, the glass sculpture of a woman, and a seat beneath an arc-shaped lamp, which Mia imagined would feel like sitting on a moonbeam.

Fearfully, she stared across the vast room to the equally vast bed. Its smooth, unruffled surface made her think of it as an arena where, instead

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