No Holds Barred by Jessica Steele

Author:Jessica Steele [Steele, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Western, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373107667
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 1985-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

CAPTIVATED, as she had been since she had first set foot in Siena, Laine was to find, as she got ready to go down to dinner that night, that she still felt bewitched, not only by Siena, but by everything at Valgaro too.

That Zare Forturini must have something to do with her inner contentment, when all the odds were against her experiencing a moment's contentment, was, she had to own, strangely true. For had he returned to being the uncivil brute she had thought he might be once they were away from other people, then her joy with anything his country held would, she knew, be shattered.

Back then would come the nagging worries of being penniless in a land that was not her own, of having to live in a house where aggression between her and her host was never very far from the surface. And back would come her anxiety about the poor progress Cristo was making.

With a start, she realised that, as completely had she forgotten all about the bad temper that had flared between her and Zare at breakfast time, so too had she forgotten to ask him how Cristo had been when he had visited him that morning!

Wondering how she could have forgotten such a thing, Laine recalled that she had had plenty of opportunity to ask Zare how his brother was. For, expecting when he had brought her back that he would stay no longer than to drop her off, she had been surprised that for the first time while she had been there, he had eaten lunch at home.

. A trace of a smile curving her mouth, Laine met her shining eyes in the mirror as she completed her light make-up. Some self-defence mechanism made her ask, why shouldn't her eyes shine? Zare had been at his most charming at lunchtime, not a glimmer of his mighty aggression coming through as, having almost to drag her away from il Campo, he had seen that she was still glowing from all that her eyes had seen.

His teasing comment when seated opposite her at lunch of, 'Have you yet come down to earth?' had seen the gates opening on a multitude of questions that had tumbled to her lips.

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