Still Lake by Stuart Anne

Author:Stuart, Anne [Stuart, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Thrillers, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9781551669083
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2002-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

She was gone, of course. He should have known she’d run like a scared rabbit, Griffin thought, cursing. Hell and damnation, he couldn’t even have two minutes in the bathroom without her taking off into the woods like a ravished virgin.

Which, in fact, was exactly what she was. How in the world did someone with a body like hers make it into her twenties without ever getting laid? Had she spent years in a convent or on some deserted island? What was wrong with the men she’d met, that no one had taken advantage of that sweet mouth and delectably lush body?

It wasn’t as if she’d put up a hell of a fight. He liked women, liked sex, and he knew perfectly well when a woman was attracted to him, even if she didn’t want to be. Sophie Davis couldn’t keep her eyes off him, in between snapping at him, and all he’d had to do was taste her mouth this afternoon to know he could have her.

He hadn’t been in any particular rush to do anything about it, but she’d shown up on his doorstep in the middle of the night, dressed in that ridiculous nightgown, and he was hardly a man to refuse such an unexpected gift. So he’d taken her, she’d been willing, and he had no reason to feel guilty. Though why in hell she was still a virgin was beyond his comprehension.

He couldn’t figure out why she hadn’t told him. Maybe she’d tried and he’d been too busy concentrating on getting inside her to listen. And if she had told him, what would he have done? Been noble, had second thoughts, put her away from him and forswear being a cad?

Like hell. He probably would have made it all the way up to the bed instead of taking her fast and hot on the rug like a horny teenager, but that was about the limit of his self-control. The moment she’d appeared out of the woods he’d known this was going to happen, and nothing was going to stop it.

It was a mistake, and her being a virgin had nothing to do with it. From now on she’d be so skittish around him he’d have an even harder time getting into the old inn. He’d screwed things up big time, and if he had any sense at all he’d keep his mind and his hands off his neighbor. He should be kicking himself. In fact, though, she’d almost been worth it.

Of course she’d run off, refusing to face him. She was probably crying, probably hating him. That, or even worse, she’d decided she was in love with him. He shuddered at the thought. That was the last thing he needed at a time like this. Women tended to be sentimental, particularly when it was their first lover, and she’d probably convince herself it was the romance of the century that made her give up what she’d been hoarding for too damned long.

She’d be hard put to fashion a romance out of this, he thought, pulling his abandoned cutoffs back on.

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