The Rich Man's Blackmailed Mistress by Robyn Donald

Author:Robyn Donald [Robyn Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781408909607
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2009-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

NUMBLY Sable said, ‘I don’t have to listen to you insult me.’

Kain’s anger hit her like a freezing blast from the Pole. ‘And I don’t have to listen to any more lies.’

‘Then don’t raise the subject again.’ She struggled to keep the hopelessness out of her tone. Why had it become so important that he believe her?

Apart from a natural dismay at being accused of something she hadn’t done, there was something deeply personal about her reaction. Shocked and bewildered, she realised she desperately wanted Kain to understand instinctively that she was incapable of stealing money from the old man who’d offered her a job.

This hunger was different from the flashpoint of the sexual charge that shimmered between them; it was somehow more intimate, and consequently much more dangerous.

‘I have no intention of doing so,’ he said deliberately. ‘But you need to know that if you give me reason I’ll have no hesitation making good my threats.’

Stonily she said, ‘Surely you can see that this isn’t going to work? I dislike you every bit as much as you dislike me. Everyone—including Brent—will see we’re just play-acting.’

‘I don’t think so,’ he said softly, and when she stared at him he smiled and came towards her.

Sable swallowed to ease a dry mouth. ‘What—no!’

But it was too late. He took the wine glass from her nerveless fingers and set it down on the table. The pale liquid shimmered and danced in the glass, and she realised that his hand couldn’t have been quite steady.

A strange, reckless anticipation consumed her, robbing her of rational thought. Silently, helplessly, she looked up into a face honed by desire.

Yet when his mouth came down on hers she didn’t move; he kissed her with such formidable passion that she caught fire. Her legs failed her, and he gave a kind of muted groan and brought her closer so that she could feel the power coiled in his lean body, the hunger that aroused him as potent and erotic as that untamed fever burning inside her.

When he lifted his head it was her turn to give a soft little sound, a plea for more.

Before she had time to feel ashamed of her open, naked need, he said in a taut, raw voice, ‘What has liking to do with this, Sable?’ and crushed the words into silence as he took her mouth again.

Without volition her arms curled around his neck, her breath sighing through her parted lips. This time he found the junction of her neck and shoulder and gently bit the acutely sensitive skin there.

A surge of sheer, animal pleasure from that light graze of his teeth sizzled through her like lightning, and in that flashpoint of desire she truly understood what longing meant. Then he nipped the lobe of her ear, his breath an erotic caress on her skin, and, panic-stricken, she thought that she was different now from her previous self, altered in some fundamental way by this man’s expertise in lovemaking.

When he picked her up she didn’t resist.

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