Long, Lean and Lethal by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action Adventure Mystery & Detective, Romantic Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9780451409157
Google: VESYLbuIMQ4C
Amazon: 9067642320
Barnesnoble: 9067642320
Goodreads: 1433455
Publisher: Onyx
Published: 1999-12-31T11:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

ANGER COURSED THROUGH HER. Damn, he was built like a Mack truck, hard chiseled face, piercing gray eyes. Yes, he’d made his mark, he ruled his world. Not hers! Not hers, she couldn’t fall for him … She struggled, pressing against his chest, her fists balling. “What are you doing?” she demanded.

He grinned down at her, a strand of clean dark hair over his forehead. “What I should have done a long time ago. Taking matters into my own hands.”

“Conar, put me down. I’ll scream. My mother will—”

“You’re going to call Mom for help?” He was so amused, so mocking.

“Conar, damn you, I mean it!”

“Do you? I don’t believe you.”

“You’re being ridiculously dramatic,” she informed him, trying for a tone of impatient annoyance.

“Dramatic? All life is drama, and once an actor …” he murmured, and she realized that he was staring ahead at the mirror at the base of the stairs. “Ah, here we are. High drama. Echoes of Gone With the Wind. Great scene, that at the foot of the stairway. So intensely sensual. Both characters so furious, in such a tempest, and the sweeping rise up the great stairway … and then all left to the imagination. Of course, I think he was in a white shirt, black breeches, something like that. But that robe of yours … it’s bright. Some real shades of Gone With the Wind there. Red is such a telling color. Provocative. Are you trying to be provocative, Jennifer?”

“Conar, you ridiculous bastard, you don’t even like me.”

“You’re wrong. I do.”

“I don’t believe you.”

“That’s ridiculous. I’ve been lusting after you for years.”

“You are really a sorry liar.” She swung her fists suddenly against his chest.

“A sorry liar? No, not really.”

“You thought I was a bitch.”

“Oh, I still think you’re capable of being a bitch. But put together right. I didn’t say I was secretly in love with you—just in lust.”

“Put me down.”

“I was probably always harboring fantasies about suddenly seeing you take off your clothes and throw yourself in front of me, saying something like, ‘All right, big shot, show me what you’ve got.’ “

She didn’t know whether to laugh or scream. “Conar, you bastard—”

He caught her hand as it landed against his cheek. “Will you quit? Clark Gable did not have to endure such abuse.”

“Clark Gable wasn’t entertaining in his room previous to the great seduction.”

“I’m glad you think it’s going to be a great seduction.”

“Conar Markham, you’re out of your mind if you think I’m so desperate that I’m going to fall in your arms when you’ve just had a girl.”

“Really? What if I didn’t just have a girl?”

“How can you even do this?” she whispered heatedly. “That poor Molly is upstairs, having just left your room.”

“She’d be so proud of me. Hey, be still, will you? This staircase scene with struggling cargo isn’t at all easy. I wonder how many takes they did with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.”

“Conar, really!” she said breathlessly. They were in the hallway. “Look, Conar, you

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