Sand, Sun...Seduction! by Stephanie Bond

Author:Stephanie Bond
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488029233
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

LIZ ARRIVED promptly at six o’clock, an hour before the evening party was set to begin. Jack heard her chugging up the hill to the house on her little scooter several minutes before the doorbell actually rang.

The scooter was one reason he hadn’t sent her outfit around to her at home. He couldn’t see her driving up from Castries on that thing, not the way she was going to be dressed.

The second reason? Well, it was possible that once she saw what he’d supplied for her to wear and realized his intentions were not what she’d imagined, she might very well bolt. If he’d sent the outfit to her at home, she might never have come at all.

“Show Ms. Talbot to the second bedroom, would you?” he asked a member of the staff who looked after the house full-time. “Ask her to get ready and meet me on the terrace.”

He then proceeded to wait, either for her to join him or for the sound of that scooter as it rapidly drove away.

Heading outside, he stepped to the railing of the broad patio, leaned over it and gazed out at the water. It gleamed beneath the late-afternoon sun, as if heaven itself had strewn it with a million crystals. The kind of beauty that was almost too much to see every day, and the kind Liz had wrapped herself up in completely.

Would she ever want to go back to the real world? To his world? Either with him or without him?

He didn’t know. And while he hadn’t been thinking along those lines when he’d flown down here to look her up, now he couldn’t think of much else.

He had been telling himself all week that his presence here was to gain Liz’s help with the lawsuit. And, perhaps, to see if sparks still flew between the two of them. To find out once and for all if he wanted her simply because she was the one he’d never had.

Now, he was beginning to think he had known the answer all along. With every day that passed, his attraction grew, until the thought of her—the memory of her taste, her scent, the softness of her skin—kept him up at night.

But it didn’t end there. He didn’t merely want her, he liked being with her. He liked her laugh and the way her mind worked. Liked her down-to-earth sense of humor, her sarcasm. Liked her courage.

God, she had actually stuck a pin in a map and followed where it led her. He didn’t think he’d ever known anyone who possessed that kind of strength.

Or anyone who’d ever felt they had so little to lose by walking away from their old life.

His heart twisted, as it had when she’d first told him. Liz had left, followed her whim, because she had nothing worth staying for. Which he found not only unbearably sad, but also took as a personal challenge. He wanted to give her something to hold on to. Something to fight for. Something to stay for.

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