JUSTISS Julia by The Courtesan (Harlequin)

Author:The Courtesan (Harlequin) [(Harlequin), The Courtesan]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-07T07:25:22+00:00

She couldn't bear to spoil what they'd shared by having it end like that.

She gave a bitter laugh. She might as well admit that she would be halfway in love with him, if she still

believed in love. She mustn't let his intoxicating presence make her forget the hard lesson that such

schoolgirl emotions were but a pretty illusion.

But our friendship is real, her heart protested.

Remember what you've learned, her head replied. Whatever compatibility of spirit and interest she

thought existed between them was only on the surface. Fatherly affection excepted, males wanted

females for one purpose.

For that, and to get heirs, they married—women of their own station. The only connection possible

between a woman like her and a man like Jack Carrington would be a crude exchange of sexual favors

for money.

Beside, she mustn't do anything that might place Kitty's future in jeopardy.

If she had become so besotted by her fantasy of a relationship with Carrington that she had forgotten the

girl who depended on her, it was past time to send the captain away.

That her heart immediately issued a protest only underlined the need to wean herself from this weakness

for Carrington's company. And since that same foolish heart resisted believing what her whole life's

experience taught her to be true, there was one simple way to destroy once and for all the myth that Jack

Carrington was some godlike paragon, attracted by her interests and intellect.

By proving him to be a man like every other.

Not a kindred spirit whose soul called to hers. Not a friend she needed like the warmth of a fire in winter.

But rather a man who respected her no more than Lord Rupert. One she could live just as well without.

Better to make the break soon, before she wove herself any deeper into the fantasies she'd been

spinning. And since Carrington was now well enough to travel, better do it immediately before the

opiumlike effect he seemed to exert over her mind and senses dulled that clear purpose.

The joy she'd felt in the day drained away, leaving a gritty residue of certainty. She took a deep breath

and tried to armor herself against the pain of it. Tonight she would insure that tomorrow, Jack Carrington

would ride out of her life and her heart for good.

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