Millionaire's Secret Seduction by Jennifer Lewis

Author:Jennifer Lewis [Lewis, Jennifer]
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

Bella could feel Dominic’s appreciative gaze on her as she stirred the sauce. The steam from the cooking pot mingled with the heady scent of the attraction that snapped back and forth between them.

She tried to focus on the food and act as though she was just cooking a regular Friday night meal for herself.

But it wasn’t a regular Friday night. Her skin was still hot and sticky from their afternoon lovemaking. Her insides still trembled with the aftershocks of her orgasm. As she cooked, Dominic’s dark eyes seemed to burn right through her clothes.

And the letters throbbed inside her briefcase, their wrinkled pages threatening to bring her carefully wrought plans crashing down around her.

She tried to keep a blank expression as she sprinkled salt and pepper onto the bubbling stew. She tested a strand of rotelle. “You like it al dente?”

“Of course.” Dominic’s face glowed with quiet pleasure that gave her a secret thrill. There was something strangely comforting about his large, solid presence in her mother’s neglected kitchen.

Which was ridiculous. If he saw what was in those letters…

She had to make sure he didn’t see them. At least until she’d figured out what to do.

The horrible vision of her mom, restrained to her hospital bed with a tube in her arm, made her catch her breath. She knew her mom was living to get her father’s work back. To see Bella breathe fresh life into his legacy and bring him back to life, even in a limited way.

“You okay?”

Dominic’s soft voice warned her she must be showing emotion. Maybe in her breathing. “Sure, I’m fine.”

She drained the pasta, then spooned the ragout over it onto two pretty hand-painted plates. She carried them to the table where she’d laid cutlery and hand-blown blue glasses her family had brought back from a long-ago vacation in Mexico.

Dominic poured wine he’d retrieved from her father’s dusty wine cellar into the glasses. Their eyes met for a second as she sat and a fierce jolt of—something—made her catch her breath and look away. She picked up her fork.

Dominic raised his glass. “To everything working out for the best.”

“What does that mean?” Her hand, halfway to her glass, froze. Was the “best” her failing in her quest to get her dad’s work?

Dominic frowned slightly. “I mean I hope your mom gets better soon and comes home from the hospital.”

Oh. She lifted her glass, flushed with sudden guilt. Working for the enemy had made her so fearful and suspicious. It embarrassed her that she’d been so quick to assume the worst of a man who’d done nothing but try to help her.

And make breathless, passionate love to her.

No. It wasn’t love. It was sex. And she’d better not forget that.

She sipped her wine. “She’ll come home soon.” She tried to inject confidence into her voice, though, in truth, her confidence was slipping away every week. The bad news in her father’s letters was the latest blow.

“Good wine. Did your dad collect it? He has a lot of interesting bottles down there.

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