Sapphire by Rosemary Rogers

Author:Rosemary Rogers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

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Sapphire lay on the bunk with her head under the blanket until it got stuffy and perspiration began to gather above her upper lip. At first, as the minutes ticked by and she listened to Blake move about the room putting things away and settling at the desk, all she could think of was what an awful, hopeless situation she had found herself in. But as her self-imposed prison grew warmer and warmer, the wool blanket itchier against her bare skin, her self-pity blossomed into anger.

How dare he? How dare Blake Thixton do this to her!

Sapphire didn’t care if he’d gone to Boston’s Harvard, she didn’t care what a successful businessman and entrepreneur he was, or that he was the Earl of Wessex and her father’s heir; she wouldn’t have cared if he was the king of England. He had no right! He had no right to kidnap her and take her from her family and she did not have to submit to such treatment. What was he? An American. Nothing more than a merchant masquerading as a gentleman. Who was he to think he could treat the daughter of an English nobleman like a common strumpet?

Sapphire flung the cover from her head and scrambled from the bunk, ignoring the pain in her ankle. As she hit the floor on her one good foot, dragging the sheet behind her to cover her nakedness, Blake looked up from his desk. “You have no right!” she shouted as she hobbled the short distance toward the desk.

Blake rose, obviously startled, but he still had that ridiculous smirk on his face.

“I don’t want to go with you, do you understand?” she yelled, grabbing a book off the corner of her desk and hurling it at him. “I don’t want to go to America!”

He ducked and took a step back. “You’ll get used to the idea. Boston is a wonderful city, very different from London but exciting in its own way. As my mistress, you’ll accompany me to the theater, to the symphony, to dinner parties with the richest, most successful men and women in the United States.”

“I don’t want to be your mistress. I will not be your mistress,” she shouted, grabbing another book and heaving it at him.

This time, either her aim was better or he wasn’t quick enough, and the missile struck his shoulder before hitting the polished wooden deck with a thump.

“You’ll get used to the idea. I can really be quite charming.” His eyes sparkled. “Some say I have a way with women.”

Hopping toward him, she grabbed a boot and flung it at him. “I certainly will not get used to the idea!”

“Ouch!” Blake cried when the heel of the boot struck him in the forehead. “Sapphire, stop it! One of us is going to get hurt.”

“Oh, one of us is going to get hurt, all right, but I can assure you it won’t be me.” With one hand clutching the sheet to cover her breasts, she grabbed a leather

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