The Magic Trilogy by Catherine Coulter

Author:Catherine Coulter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2012-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

14

I don’t like devils. They vex me and are most unpleasant.

RABELAIS

“Diana?”

Oh, why couldn’t he just disappear and leave her alone?

The sounds were muffled now, and he pictured her with her fist stuffed in her mouth. He eased off the bunk oblivious of the fact that he was naked, and came down on his knees beside her.

“Come, what is wrong? Are you not feeling well? Is your belly cramping?”

She saw red through her misery. “Must you think everything relates to my being a female? Oh, go away, Lyon.”

He touched his hand to her shoulder and frowned when he felt her flinch. “I will go away after you’ve told me what’s wrong. Answer me. I don’t like it when you’re silent, since you never are.”

“Very well. I’m unhappy. I want to be home. I don’t want to have to worry about you ravishing me when I am not on my guard. I don’t want to be forced to do anything I don’t believe is right. There, I have answered you, now go away.”

He sat back on his heels. He wished he could see her face, but the cabin was dark as a pit. He said, very deliberately, “If you promise to marry me, I will promise not to ravish you.”

She said quickly, too quickly for his ears, “All right I promise to marry you once we reach St. Thomas.”

He sighed.

“Damn you, Lyon. What if I were the one to demand marriage? I couldn’t force the issue by ravishing you. It isn’t fair.”

“Perhaps it isn’t fair. However, as a man, I am born with more good sense than you are. As a man, it is up to me to assist you to reason, to make you see things more clearly—”

He got a fist in his belly with such force that he fell on his rump.

“There is no talking to you, no reasoning with you.” She straddled him, and pounded his chest.

He grasped her about her waist and pulled her down on top of him. Her legs tangled with his, her breasts were against his chest, and he responded instantly. Damn her anyway and her effect on him. “Do you have cat eyes? I do trust that you were aiming for my chest and not my manhood again.”

He felt her arm raise and quickly grabbed her wrist, bearing it down. He slid his other hand to her bottom, to hold her still against him.

“Let me go.”

“Only if you promise with absolute sincerity to attempt no more damage.”

Diana felt him hard against her belly. She wanted to press against him. It was too much. “I promise.”

“Liar. If ever in the future you try to play me false, I shall know it.”

“I am not Charlotte.”

He rolled her over onto her back and quickly brought his leg over hers. Now he could see the faint shadow of her face. “I wish I could see you better. I wish I could tie you down. I wish that you weren’t being so very womanly at this time.”

He lowered his face and kissed her.

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