Proof of Their Sin by Dani Collins

Author:Dani Collins
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-06-04T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

LAUREN HELD HIS gaze until the dark centers of his eyes seemed to glow with heat. Her toes curled and emotion welled up in her, bursting for release.

Alarmed, she looked away and reminded herself to draw a breath. With a dry swallow, she escaped by crouching to pick up the scattered groceries.

“I find that hard to believe. For starters, you’re a man who enjoys a challenge and I don’t present much of one. As you pointed out, I was the one chasing you at the wedding.” Cringing at the memory, she squinted her eyes shut. The cloth bag rested in a heap on her thigh. “I didn’t go out there to kiss you, though. Please believe that, Paolo. You were just so angry and upset and I felt like it was my fault you had to witness a wedding when it was the last thing you believed in anymore. I just wanted to see if you were okay.”

“I wasn’t.” The husky edge on his voice fluttered her nerves with disturbing sensuality.

“I know. It was stupid of me to ask.” She shook out the bag and filled it with the produce she gathered.

“No, it was kind, Lauren. It was sweet and I repaid you by kissing you and asking you to leave with me. That was stupid.”

She stayed on her knees, tilting only her eyes up to the man towering over her, his broad shoulders heavy with self-recrimination.

“You didn’t want to be there. It was an imposition. You wanted to be left alone and I didn’t respect that, so you gave me a mental shake.”

“No,” he contradicted very gravely. “I was serious when I asked you to leave with me. I went outside to cool my head because I’d been watching you all day. When you followed me, I gave in to temptation. If you had slapped me, I would have backed off, but—”

“I know. I’m—” She curled hands that rose to cover her face, leaving her fists against her hot cheeks while she stared up at him in hypnotic chagrin. To this day she remembered every second of the way he’d turned, his expression pained and defeated. She’d instinctively reached out and he’d caught her hand and drawn her inexorably into him.

She hadn’t recognized they were going to kiss. It had just happened. He had covered her mouth with his and pulled a response from her that shattered everything she’d known about herself. Still hovering between the girl who wondered about sex and the young woman awakening to her own sexuality, she’d suddenly glimpsed the raw power inside herself and it had scared her. Truly scared her.

As she’d pulled back, he’d feathered a masculine command across her lips. Vieni con me.

She’d understood the Italian words as though it was her primary language and the desire to comply had been dangerously thick in her blood. Leave with me.

And then Ryan’s chilly voice had asked, “What are you doing?”

For one heartbeat Paolo’s grip on her had tightened. She’d understood what it meant to be a kill between two hungry wolves.

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