The Greek's Runaway Bride by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488028793
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1983-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

IT was late morning before Chloe woke up again, and this time she was alone in the huge bed. She moved luxuriously beneath the silk sheets, her body relaxed and lethargic with the aftermath of love. As she slipped out of bed and pulled on a robe her own reflection caught her eye. How great a difference twenty-four hours could make! Yesterday she had been a pale, unhappy shadow of the woman who stared back at her from the mirror today. Love had effected an almost miraculous transformation. But not mutual love, a small inner voice warned her. She was the one who loved. Leon merely allowed her to give him her love, while he….

She clenched her hands into tiny, desperate fists. No, she mustn’t think about Marisa; mustn’t spoil what Leon had whispered to her this morning would be their second honeymoon, she must think positive. Who knew, perhaps in time she might be able to win him away from Marisa; perhaps might even already have done so, if she hadn’t run away from him—and the unacceptable facts of his relationship with Marisa. She mustn’t think of that. She must hold fast to the fact that he wanted her, desired her; that together they would build a stable family unit; the two of them and their children. He would surely see then that he could not continue his relationship with Marisa?

Deep down inside her Chloe knew that Marisa would not be so easily dislodged from Leon’s life. The younger girl was fanatically obsessed with her half-brother, and Chloe shivered, despite the warmth of the stateroom. Fanatics were dangerous people, capable of doing anything to further their cause. Her hands went to her stomach, pain tightening her mouth. Somehow she would have to make Leon believe that Marisa and not she had been responsible for her miscarriage. What was past was past, but she wasn’t prepared to run the risk of the same thing happening again.

She stood still, staring into space. The last twenty-four hours had indeed worked a transformation! Here she was not only accepting the fact of resuming her marriage, but actively planning ahead to protect the very life she had sworn to Leon she would never willingly conceive, but then Leon, when he was as attentive and charming as he had been this morning—as it had been when she first met him, was a force to be reckoned with, and one she could not withstand. The love she had thought dead had merely been in hibernation, and the warm heat of the Aegean sun had brought it into full, sensuous life.

‘Hey, sleepyhead, are you going to join me for lunch?’

She scurried into the bathroom as Leon strolled into the stateroom, firmly closing and locking the door. Despite her love for him, despite the fact that they had been married and lived together as man and wife, she was still affected by sudden attacks of shyness, and safely behind the locked door, she blushed a little to

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