Outback Fire by Margaret Way

Author:Margaret Way
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-08-04T20:00:00+00:00

Storm opened her eyes with a start, wondering briefly, wildly, where she was. The air hung with a pre-dawn silence that would soon be dispersed by the songs of a trillion birds. A soft, misty light was entering the bedroom, pearling down on her and a man’s long muscled back, the skin polished bronze, velvet in texture. He was turned so far away from her he was on the very edge of the bed. The head on the snowy pillow glowed like a dark flame.

Luke.

He looked utterly beautiful. A marvellous man. She’d been afraid of him for most of her life, so powerful were her feelings of coming second best. The mystery was how she had retained so much confidence in her personal worth. She and Luke hadn’t got on at all. She knew now it was because she’d always been in jealous competition for her father’s attention. It was her father’s doing; though he had been genuinely unaware he was causing such damage. The result was she had elected to take it out on Luke. Himself a victim of tragic circumstances.

Desire such as she had never known spiralled in her. Up…up…making her feel light-headed. She wanted to stroke him, so badly she couldn’t control it. Her fingers reached out, feathering along his skin. It seemed like some kind of miracle—he was here with her until she recalled she had begged him to stay in case her grief and sense of dislocation carried her away.

“Luke…”

She held her breath, her fingers deepening the pressure, so she was caressing his warm flesh.

He came awake at once, slicking his hair back with his hand. He turned towards her, with such a rush of joy it lit him up like a torch. Such naked longing was in her beautiful green eyes he didn’t hesitate. He pulled her down to him with strong, powerful arms, pressing her to him. Blinding desire drove out any other consideration but having her. God hadn’t he imagined it? Too frequently. This was unstoppable.

“Luke—”

Just saying his name was a release. Her voice broke, but he muffled her murmurs with his mouth, kissing her so deeply and in such a fashion, she gasped once forbidden little endearments into his mouth, her fingernails digging into the bare skin of his back.

Inhibition vanished like puffs of sand on the desert wind. “I want you desperately,” he muttered, his voice half smothered by her cushioned lips. “Lord, don’t you know that?”

She tried to draw back a little, overwhelmed by the magic, her cheeks flushed with body heat. She stared into his taut face, her eyes enormous, dark green. “Make love to me, Luke,” she whispered. “I can’t fight you any more.” The haunting was over.

If only that were true! He wished it with all his heart, but doubt pursued him. He had lived through long years of rejection by this beautiful creature.

But she kissed him. A kiss that transcended his fears. The initiative entirely hers, the kiss lingered on with such bewitching seductiveness he felt the blood beat hot and heavy in his veins and pool in his loins.

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