TATIANA by Taylor Lee

Author:Taylor Lee [Lee, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance
Publisher: idesire
Published: 2019-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Zane took the curves on the winding mountain trail in his snazzy Bentley convertible with ease. Accustomed to letting the potent beast free, accelerating from zero to sixty miles per hour in under four seconds, and occasionally aiming for its blistering top speed, he purposefully contained his powerful car when he entered the freeway. The last thing he wanted to do was shorten their drive to Sierra Vista. It was going to be difficult enough to take Tatiana home not knowing for sure when he would see her next. He faced the hard fact that he didn’t just want to see her, he wanted to have her in his arms. As challenging as their separation was sure to be, at the moment Zane admitted there was another reason to extend their drive time.

Over the course of the last three days, he’d gotten more than a few glimpses into the heavily shielded core of this extraordinary woman. Her passionate response to his admittedly aggressive lovemaking had rocked him to his soul. The depth of her passion when she let her guard down was a gift he’d never forget and intended to mine every way he could. But as thrilled as he was with her response to him, it was hard to reconcile the woman he’d taken in amazingly erotic ways with the woman who’d hidden in the hotel ladies’ room for thirty minutes to avoid him. Likewise, her shy exterior that he’d approached carefully was in direct opposition to the laughing, openly provocative woman who had a bar full of randy men cheering her risqué dancing.

These seeming incongruities underscored the more challenging aspects of their time together. Particularly the glimpses she’d given him of the devils she was wrestling with. To start with, there was her work. The more he thought about her speech and the challenging, frankly hideous world of domestic abuse she’d revealed, the more he realized how little he knew about her. How little he understood what had shaped this complicated, baffling woman that lived behind the shy exterior she presented to the world. That she was totally invested in her Sanctuary as she was in the women and children sheltered there was obvious. But now that he was beginning to see beneath her shy public persona, he wanted, hell, he needed to understand the roots of her fierce advocacy. Which brought him to the most unsettling aspect of this complicated woman he admitted he was falling in love with—that being her former husband.

When he allowed himself to think about her unintended allusions to her ex-husband, it was clear that their marriage had been a troubled one. Ryker had said as much when Zane was probing for ways to get closer to the woman who’d intrigued him from the first time he saw her. Ryker had also told him that according to her father and sisters, at the root of what Ryker had labeled Tatiana’s “minefield” was Arnold Loomis. Zane recalled the troubled expression that had overtaken her face just when she’d begun to give in to what was clearly her love of dancing.

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