The Husband Test by Helen Bianchin

Author:Helen Bianchin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Adult, General, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780373122189
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

It was almost seven when she donned jeans, a cotton top, and went downstairs to the kitchen.

The salad was delicious, and after she’d eaten it she curled up in a chair in the sitting room and used the remote to switch on the television.

She must have dozed, for she came awake at the touch of hands sliding beneath her thighs.

‘Nicos?’

‘Who were you expecting?’ he drawled musingly.

‘I can walk,’ Katrina declared. ‘Put me down.’

He reached the stairs and began to ascend them. ‘You doubt my ability to carry you?’

She weighed little more than a child, and he wasn’t even breathing heavily when he reached the landing.

‘For heaven’s sake, put me down!’

He let her slide down to her feet, and she moved a few paces, then turned towards her room.

‘Goodnight.’

‘Where do you think you’re going?’

The query was quietly spoken, yet beneath the softness there was a hint of steel, and Katrina looked at him in silent askance.

‘My room.’

‘No.’

‘What do you mean—no?’

‘Last night—’

‘Was a mistake.’

‘The hell it was.’

‘We…’ she paused fractionally ‘…got carried away,’ she qualified. Words, they were only words. None of which even began to describe the extent of her emotional involvement or her reaction.

Nicos’s eyes darkened. ‘Is that how you describe it? Carried away?’

She met his gaze and held it. ‘What else would you call it?’

‘We share the same room, the same bed.’ He stilled her protest by pressing a finger to her lips. ‘It isn’t an option.’

Her eyes sparked green fire. ‘Since when did you get to call the shots?’

The palm of his hand slid to cup the edge of her jaw. ‘From the moment we made love last night.’

She felt her insides begin to liquify. ‘We had sex.’

‘So we did, pedhi mou.’

He sounded amused, and she fought against her body’s response. She didn’t want to succumb to his seduction, didn’t need to do battle for her own self-preservation. It had taken months to build up a resistance to him. Yet in one night he’d managed to tear it down as if that invisible wall had never existed.

‘I’m tired.’ Katrina offered the excuse in desperation. ‘All I want to do is slip into bed. My bed. Alone.’

He smoothed the tip of his thumb over the soft fullness of her lower lip. ‘So you shall,’ he said gently, and let his hand fall to his side. ‘But it won’t be alone.’

With that, he turned and walked towards his room without a backward glance.

Dammit, couldn’t he see she needed time to assimilate what had happened between them? That she was at war with herself, and in a constant state of flux at having succumbed to the dictates of her flesh?

In the light of day, all she could focus on was her own weakness. This man had betrayed her with another woman. Worse, that woman had borne his child.

At the time she’d dealt with it. But now, the very structure she’d carefully built was falling down around her ears.

She wanted to hate him, and told herself she did. But she hated herself more.

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