Nicola Cornick by True Colours

Author:True Colours
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He crossed to her side in two strides and stood towering over her. Once again, as at Ottery, fury and frustration consumed him. She was so stubborn he could have shaken her. His fingers closed hard around her wrist and jerked her to her feet. The small table at Alicia’s side toppled over with a clatter, cascading the glass of wine onto the flagstone floor in a ruby waterfall. The glass miraculously did not break, but rolled away to hit the hearth with a gentle click. Neither of them paid the slightest attention.

‘So you think that I misjudged you seven years ago,’ James ground out, ‘and as a result you will behave like the spoilt child you are! Well, I thank you for your good opinion, madam! It’s fortunate we were spared the chance of ever marrying—no doubt time would have proved it to be a disastrous mistake!’

Alicia itched to slap his face, but he was holding her too tightly and too close to him. It was impossible to speak with any dignity, but at least she was now wholly angry where before she had been upset. She glared up into the furious dark eyes only inches from her own.

‘Oh, no, my lord, it is you who are spoilt and selfish! Just because you wish to know a thing, you care not how much pain you occasion others! This is hardly the first time I have had to endure your strictures on my character—from allegations of wilfulness to the indictment that I married for a fortune! You have insulted me in every way conceivable and now I can only suggest you let me go!’

She barely had time to draw breath before he wrenched her into his arms. It bore no resemblance to any embrace Alicia had experienced before; not even the most ardent of her admirers had treated her so, and James himself had always exercised considerable restraint in his dealings with her as an inexperienced girl of nineteen. But now he held her ruthlessly whilst his mouth moved over hers, the pressure forcing her lips to part. The intensity of the kiss did not ease even for a moment and Alicia was lost almost from the start. Even had she wished to escape, she could not have done so. The arms which held her seemed made of steel. Though she knew he had only kissed her out of anger and frustration, she found herself adrift on a sea of sensation, careless of thought, responding to him with a lack of restraint which she was powerless to prevent. Her senses had been starved of emotion for so long that her nerve-endings felt as though they were on fire. His mouth became more insistent, deepening the kiss still further, and she was achingly aware of every taut line of his body against hers. Then, as she was about to abandon thought completely, a small corner of her mind whispered that he did not care about her, did not trust her, and certainly did not love her as she still loved him.

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