Mackenzies Collection (5 Books) by Linda Howard

Author:Linda Howard
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2007-11-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“Barrie…” he began, his tone kind, and she knew he was going to refuse.

“No!” she said fiercely. “Don’t tell me I should think about it, or that I really don’t want to do it. I know what I went through with those bastards. I know you don’t believe it, but they didn’t rape me. But they looked at me, they touched me, and I couldn’t stop them.” She stopped and drew a deep breath, steadying herself. “I’m not stupid. I know we’re still in danger, that you and your men could be wounded or even killed trying to rescue me and that I could end up back in their hands anyway. I’ve never made love before, with anyone. I don’t want my first time to be rape, do you understand? I don’t want them to have that satisfaction. I want the first time to be with you.”

She had surprised him, she saw, and she had already noticed that Zane Mackenzie wasn’t a man whose expression revealed much of what he was thinking. He sat up straight, his pale eyes narrowed as he examined her with a piercing gaze.

He was still going to refuse, and she didn’t think she could bear it. “I promise,” she blurted desperately. “They didn’t do that to me. I can’t have any disease, if that’s what you’re worried about.”

“No,” he said, his voice suddenly sounding strained. “That isn’t what I’m worried about.”

“Don’t make me beg,” she pleaded, wringing her hands together, aware that she was already doing exactly that.

Then the expression in those pale eyes softened, grew warmer. “I won’t,” he said softly, and rose to his feet with that powerful, feline grace of his. He towered over her, and for a moment Barrie felt the difference in their sizes so sharply that she wondered wildly what she thought she was doing. Then he moved past her to the blanket; he knelt and smoothed it, then dropped down on it, stretching out on his back, and watched her with a world of knowledge in his slightly remote, too-old eyes.

He knew. And until she read that knowledge in his eyes, she hadn’t even been aware of what she really needed. But watching him lie down and put himself at her service, something inside her shattered. He knew. He understood the emotions roiling deep inside her, understood what had brought her to him with her fierce, startling demand. It wasn’t just that she wanted her first time to be of her own volition, with the man of her choice; the kidnappers had taken something from her, and he was giving it back. They had tied her down, stripped her, humiliated her, and she had been helpless to stop them. Zane was giving control back to her, reassuring her and at the same time subtly letting her exact her vengeance against the male of the species.

She didn’t want to lie helpless beneath him. She wanted to control this giving of her body, wanted things to move at her pace instead of his, wanted to be the one who decided how much, how far, how fast.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.