Temptation's Kiss by Sandra Brown

Author:Sandra Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Atlanta (Ga.), Contemporary, Women in Radio Broadcasting, General, Romance, Thrillers, Fiction
ISBN: 9780446616799
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 1983-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Six

There was only a heartbeat between the gentle kisses he had been planting on her forehead and the abrupt rising of his head. She had succeeded in jarring him out of his passionate daze. That it was taxing his willpower in the extreme was evidenced by his rapid, ragged breathing.

She knew he was looking at her, willing her to open her eyes, but she couldn't risk letting him see the truth—that she regretted calling a halt as much as he did. Instead she squeezed her eyes shut, until twin tears eked out from beneath her lids and rolled down her cheeks.

He raised himself off her and left the bed. The quiet rasp of his zipper being refastened in the silent room was as obnoxious as fingernails raking down a blackboard.

For a long while Megan lay perfectly still on her back, with her eyes closed. She wished he would just leave without saying anything. Her greatest desire was to curl into a ball, to bury herself, to wallow in regret. She regretted ever having met him, danced with him, kissed him the night before she got married.

She regretted ever having consented to come here. If she'd been more adamant, Doug wouldn't have forced her to come. He knew how stubborn she could be. She could have worn him down by insisting she simply had too much work to do.

And she regretted... No! She wouldn't regret not making love to Josh. It was too dangerous to speculate on what it would have been like. Hie mere thought of it made her shiver.

"Megan, are you all right?"

"Yes, I'm all right." She rolled her head to the side and opened her eyes. He was sitting in a chair near the bed, looking earnestly at her. She knew she was a mess, that her eyes were red and her cheeks streaked from tears.

It was strange about those tears. Where had they come from? Their source frightened her, but she couldn't think about that now. If she examined it too closely, she might crawl onto Josh's lap and beg him to continue what they had begun. No, don't think about the loss you feel, Megan, she cautioned herself. "I'm sorry," she said aloud.

His knees were spread wide, where he sat leaning forward in the chair. Elbows on knees, his chin was propped on his fists as he studied her. "So am I."

She sat up slowly, closing the placket on her slacks as unobtrusively as possible. "I... I didn't know I'd feel that way until..."

When her voice faded away, he said understanding-ly, "You don't have to justify that feeling to me or to anyone. I know there hasn't been another man since James. I'm glad. From now on I'm going to be the only man in your life." His softly spoken words and the indulgence with which he was looking at her made her unaccountably angry.

"Well, I hate to disappoint you, Josh," she said caustically. "I'm old-fashioned and not at all sophisticated when it comes to sex.

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