King's Price by Jackie Ashenden

Author:Jackie Ashenden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-06-25T19:31:49+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Vita

I WOKE UP SUDDENLY, not sure what had woken me. It might have been because I wasn’t in my own bed in my little terrace house in Newtown, but in Leon’s penthouse apartment overlooking Sydney Harbour.

The walls of the bedroom were nothing but windows and he didn’t like obscuring the incredible view with something as mundane as blinds. Which meant I’d been woken at sunrise each morning after our last couple of dates with dawn flooding into the room and Leon’s hands on my body, working his magic with his mouth and his fingers. And his cock.

But it wasn’t dawn now and the bed beside me was empty.

In fact, it was full night, the lights of the harbour stretched out in front of me, with the Opera House below and beyond that the bridge in a shining arc.

No point in trying to go back to sleep. I probably wouldn’t, not when Leon wasn’t there.

I slipped out of bed, searching around for my clothes before remembering they were out in the lounge, where Leon had ripped them off me after we’d got back from the nightclub.

Our fourth date and we hadn’t even been there half an hour before Leon leaned in and whispered in my ear that the club could go fuck itself. He wanted to fuck me instead.

That had been the pattern after he’d taken me in the lift. We’d meet up in public, make a desultory attempt at conversation, then go back to his place where he’d have me naked and screaming his name within minutes.

Perhaps I should have been worried that every time he touched me I’d become putty in his hands. But I told myself that was simply due to the physical chemistry that we were burning out, and once that was gone it would be over.

Besides, in the mirrors of the lift that night, he’d shown me something in myself that I’d never seen before, a beauty and sensuality that I’d always thought was my sister’s, never mine. But I’d seen it as he pushed into me and the pleasure had taken hold—as I watched myself come apart in the mirror right in front of me.

It should have been exposing but it wasn’t.

With him behind me, the evidence of his desperation driving into me, his dark amber gaze pinned to our reflections, I’d felt beautiful for the first time in my life. Desirable. Wanted.

All the things I’d wanted to feel with Simon and hadn’t.

It was the first time I’d ever felt any of those things and I couldn’t give them up, not yet. Not while Leon could give them to me.

Anyway, I’d be careful to make sure only my body surrendered. Everything else remained my own and that was how it would stay.

Since my clothes weren’t there, I found the dark blue shirt Leon had been wearing earlier that evening discarded over a low white chair opposite the bed and put it on.

I shivered as his warm scent enveloped me, making hunger turn over in my gut.

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