Sedikhan - 01 - Capture the Rainbow by Iris Johansen

Author:Iris Johansen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Performing Arts, Women stunt performers, General, Romance, Motion picture producers and directors, Fiction, Individual Director, Love stories
ISBN: 9780553591422
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2008-01-29T06:00:00+00:00

"I believe you." Kendra's throat was clogged as she tenderly stroked his hair. "Of course I believe you, Joel."

"I don't know how you can." His cheek was slightly rough as he rubbed against her breast with a movement that was more affectionate than sensual. "Not after what I've put you through in the last couple of weeks, what I did to you today. And you're wrong, it wasn't your fault we didn't get that take today. It was mine. Everything that happened to you today was my fault and if you had been seriously injured, that would have been my fault, too." He laughed mirthlessly. "I tried to tell myself I was doing it for your own good, to show you that the kind of punishment you're subjected to isn't worth the bucks you get for your work. But I knew inside that was pure unadulterated bull. You were right. I wanted to prove you less than you are. I wanted you to surrender. Not only because that would keep you safe, but it would keep me safe as well. You were already possessing my body; I didn't want to give you a chance at taking over my soul as well. Can you understand that?"

Oh yes, she could understand that. His words reflected a mirror image of the struggle she had been going through herself since that night at his House of Rainbows. The realization that the battle had been shared by the man she was holding in her arms brought her a sudden feeling of kinship, a lessening of defensive antagonism. His simple honesty was a weapon against which she had no defense. "You were only doing your job," she said with an unexplainable desire to comfort him. "I realize that." He raised his head to look at her and his eyes were dark with pain. "You're tying. You knew what I was doing to you. I could see it in your face every time I pushed you a little bit more. Sometimes I could see how exhausted you were and I'd want to yell cut, then run out and scoop you up and protect you against all the dragons in your world." His lips curved bitterly. "But how could I do that when I was one of those dragons myself? So I pushed you even harder and watched you lose weight, saw the circles appear beneath your eyes." His finger reached out to touch the hollow of her cheek. "I watched the strain grow in you until it was an aching pain inside me." He shook his head in bewilderment. "Because by that time I felt as if we were linked somehow so that I could actually tell what you were feeling. Lord, Freud would have had a field day with me for the last two weeks."

"You could have stopped at any time, you know," she said with a wry smile. "I guarantee I wouldn't have objected to a cessation of hostilities if you'd cared to hoist a truce flag.

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