Kiss the Moonlight by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland [Cartland, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780330250887
Google: uOJnAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0330250884
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1977-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Then as Athena opened her eyes she realised she was in a cave.

It was not a large cave and the roof under which she was lying only just enabled Kazandis to stand upright.

He was looking down at her and, dazed and bewildered though she was, the look in his eyes instinctively made her try to shrink away from him while her hands went to her breasts.

"Kazandis does not give up easily," he said in the boastful tones he had used in the Taverna the night before. "I want you and now you're mine!"

Athena could not speak, she could only stare up at him in terror. "Yes, mine!" he repeated with satisfaction. "Get your breath. No-one will find you here."

It was not so much a question of her getting her breath, but of him getting his.

Perhaps because he had been in prison for so long, the burden of carrying her up the mountain had taken its toll even on such a strong man.

There were beads of sweat running down his forehead and over his cheeks.

He pulled off his sheepskin coat and flung it down on the ground and she saw that his shirt was stained and his hairy arms were wet.

He walked further into the cave and as her eyes followed him apprehensively she saw that the cave opened out and was far larger than it had first appeared from where she was lying.

From the darkness of the shadows Kazandis produced a bottle and pulling out the cork he lifted it to his lips and drank noisily.

"Have some?"

He held the bottle out to her and when she shook her head he said:

"Please yourself! There's plenty if you change your mind."

Now taking a dirty rag from his pocket, which he doubtless thought of as a handkerchief, he wiped his forehead and his cheeks and rubbed his hands on it before he flung it to the floor of the cave.

"You're a pretty piece," he said, "although you've not much to say for yourself."

"Let ... me ... go," Athena managed to articulate. "If you ... want money ... I can ... give it to you ... I am ... rich."

"Rich—when you are staying in a Taverna?" he laughed.

"It may seem ... strange," Athena answered, "but I am in fact ... very rich ... if you will let me ... go to ... safety ... I will pay you ... well."

"And how shall I collect it?" Kazandis asked jeeringly, "or will the Military hand it to me?"

"I will see you have it... and that no-one will... molest you," Athena said earnestly. "That I... promise."

He laughed and the noise of it seemed to echo and re-echo round the cave.

"I 've got all the money 1 want for the moment," he said, "and when I want more—I shall take it! But now I want you!"

He wiped his lips as he spoke with the back of his hand, and Athena thinking it was preliminary to kissing her gave a little cry of terror.

The mere fact that she was frightened seemed to please Kazandis and he smiled.

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