Passions of the Ghost by Sara Mackenzie

Author:Sara Mackenzie
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-10-12T11:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

Amy stood by the bar in her slinky black dress and high heels, simmering. She was furious. How dare they fight over her like that! As if she was some sort of prize in a raffle. She’d agreed to Jez’s plan, she’d been prepared to do it, no matter what it cost her where Rey was concerned, and now they’d humiliated her with a public brawl.

She was sick and tired of them both! Jez and his schemes and lies, and Rey with his eagle girlfriend and the seven-hundred-year wrong he had to right. Serve them right if she walked out on them here and now and never—

“Amee…”

Oh God, it was Nicco. How could she possibly play her part now, after what had happened? She clenched her hands around her glass and wished him far, far away.

Nicco slid his fingers over the bare skin of her back, making her want to cringe and shrink away from his touch. Somehow she forced herself to turn and face him.

“You are so beautiful tonight.” Nicco was oblivious to her emotional state, but that made sense—all he ever thought about was himself.

She was about to tell him she had a headache, when she noticed Rey, watching them from a safe distance. For a moment she was disoriented, struck dumb by him, just as she’d been the first time she saw him. Perhaps she could go over to him and explain, make everything all right, perhaps…

It was no use. No explanation would ever change what she was. Amy hardened her resolve to destroy completely any feeling he had for her. And there was one way to do that, wasn’t there? She looked at Nicco and gave him her sultriest smile.

“Nicco, babe, where have you been?”

He leaned one hand against the bar and smiled back. “A little injury.”

“Oh, does that mean you’re out of action?”

“It is nothing.”

“Jez said you hurt your back. I hope it isn’t too painful?”

“When I see you I feel no pain,” he announced, gallantly.

“I’m sure that’s not true. I have some antiinflammatories in—”

“I am fine,” he cut her short with a hint of impatience. He moved closer, his thigh brushing against hers. “I want you, Amee,” he murmured huskily. “You are a woman who can drive men wild.”

With Nicco’s drawling, affected voice in her ear, Amy found herself looking up again, toward Rey. He was still watching, and he looked angry. Very angry. But whether he was angry with her or Nicco, she wasn’t sure.

At least he couldn’t slice them in two with his sword—it was safely upstairs in her room. Or send them to his dungeon—the dungeon wasn’t in use these days, except as an all-night coffee shop. In fact there wasn’t very much he could do at all, which was probably why he looked so cross.

Nicco was still whispering sweet nothings into her ear, but now he had his hand on the curve of her hip, sweaty and heavy.

This is your chance. Ask him about the diamond now. Tease him, go to his room, let him make love to you.

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