Knight's Possession by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1985-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

SHE could see him through the glass now as she approached the door, and what she saw didn’t encourage her to open the lock. It had been snowing for some time now, everywhere gleaming white, and the black-clothed man looked all the more ominous against its brightness. Black cords moulded to his long legs, a black cable-knit sweater beneath the familiar black body-warmer, the only light in his harsh face the angry glitter of his golden eyes.

‘Open the damned door, Laurel,’ he ordered again, stamping his cold feet in the snow, rubbing his chilled hands together.

She clicked the lock, stepping back as he pushed his way inside.

‘God, it isn’t much warmer in here,’ he glared. ‘What the hell happened to the heating?’

Obviously being a ‘morning man’ didn’t extend to the very early hours, Reece’s mood terse and impatient. ‘It goes off at night,’ she shrugged dismissively.

He strode through to the office, looking down disgustedly at the blanket she had thrown back before getting off the couch. ‘And you were going to sleep here,’ he accused, sparks in his eyes.

‘It isn’t that bad—’

‘The Antarctic is warmer!’ he grated.

‘Reece—’

‘Is this where you were last night, too?’ he demanded forcefully.

‘If you will just calm down—’

‘Calm down!’ he repeated furiously. ‘When I got home I telephoned your flat to see if you were all right, when I got no answer I thought, “she’s sulking”—’

‘I do not sulk,’ she snapped.

‘You sulk,’ he stated flatly. ‘So I tried again an hour later—’

‘I could have been asleep!’ she accused.

‘Not in your own flat you couldn’t,’ he glared. ‘Because you haven’t been there the last two nights! Your neighbour told me, the same neighbour as last night,’ he pointed out aggressively.

‘Oh dear,’ she grimaced.

‘She certainly didn’t take kindly to being woken up at almost two o’clock in the morning!’ he snapped.

‘Who would?’

‘Indeed,’ Reece bit out harshly. ‘She told me you had left a couple of hours before with a man.’ He watched her with narrowed eyes.

Her cheeks flamed bright red. ‘That’s a lie,’ she instantly denied. ‘I left alone. Good God, what does the woman do, stand with a glass against my wall?’

‘I wouldn’t know,’ he dismissed curtly. ‘I’m more interested in who the man was you didn’t leave with.’

Laurel’s gaze was suddenly evasive. ‘There wasn’t a man—’

‘It was Gilbraith,’ he instantly guessed. ‘What did he want?’

She contemplated denying he had ever been there, but the mood Reece was in he was likely to turn violent if she tried to avoid answering him again. And he already looked as dark as the devil! ‘His ring, of course,’ she admitted with a sigh.

Golden eyes narrowed. ‘Did you tell him I have it?’

‘No,’ she answered harshly.

‘Why not?’

She moistened dry lips. ‘I—I didn’t want to involve you,’ she said lamely.

‘Not involve me!’ he predictably scorned. ‘You’re wearing my ring now, Laurel, and I want Gilbraith out of your life once and for all.’

He wanted, did he! ‘And what about what I want?’ she demanded angrily.

‘I’m going to take care of

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