Kiss of the Dragon by Christina James

Author:Christina James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc.
Published: 2013-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

For several moments, Bianca stared at the heavy wooden door that had just been closed in her face and then stamped her foot in a fit of anger. The damned man had rejected her again. This seduction was not going well at all. She knew how the tale should end. Had not she written story after story in which the knight in shining armor rescued the maiden in distress from the evil villain and then proceeded to carry her off on his great steed to live happily ever after in his castle in the distant sunset? What was it that she did wrong?

Bianca glanced at her bed considering whether she should return to it, but immediately rejected the notion. Going back to sleep was impossible after what had just happened. And knowing that Draco stood on the other side of her chamber door was nearly beyond bearing.

Restlessly, she wandered across the room to her writing table and lit several tapers. Since she knew sleep was impossible, she sat down, determined to work on her newest fable. But when she dipped her quill into the ink, her hand stilled and she stared unseeing at the clean parchment, her mind a perplexity of emotions. When she finally did begin writing, it took her several attempts to get the words she wrote to make some sense.

For the hundredth time Bianca glanced at the closed door. She groaned aloud in frustration. What was wrong with her? Draco had made it clear that he wanted nothing to do with her and that should have put an end to it. But it had not. It was agonizing to be not more than ten paces from him and not to be able to see his face, to touch him. Perhaps she should tell him to go back to his own bed, so that his nearness would not torment her.

Bianca was on her feet and crossing the room before she could reconsider her actions. Her fingers touched the handle before she realized what she was doing. Snatching back her hand as if she had been burned, Bianca chastised herself.

“Do not be foolish!” Then a horrid thought entered her mind. What if he already thought it? “There is no need to give him further proof of his assumption,” she muttered as she stood, staring at the closed portal as if it were her worst enemy.

No matter how much she tried to talk herself into climbing back into her lonely bed for what remained of the night, she could not get her feet to move. Instead, she put her splayed hands against the door and then leaned her forehead to the cold slab of wood that was all that separated her from Draco. She turned her head and lay her ear against the door in an attempt to hear any sound he might make. But there was only silence from beyond.

An exasperated sigh whooshed past her lips as Bianca whirled about and hunched her back against the offending orifice.

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