The Throne He Must Take by Chantelle Shaw

Author:Chantelle Shaw [Shaw, Chantelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

HOLLY JERKED HER eyes away from Jarek as he began to strip off his ski jacket and salopettes. She knelt in front of the fire, and when he joined her a few minutes later she silently cursed her accelerated heart-rate when she saw he had changed into a pair of sweatpants that sat low on his hips. She guessed he had only brought one spare shirt, which she was wearing. In the firelight the whorls of hair that covered his chest and arrowed down over his flat stomach were pure gold.

He dumped a pile of blankets on the floor. ‘I found these in a storage box. We’ll stay close to the fire and keep it burning through the night. You’ll soon warm up,’ he assured her, wrapping a blanket around her.’

He moved away to the kitchen and a short while later came back and handed her a steaming mug of hot chocolate.

Holly stared at him. ‘How on earth...?’

‘I brought packets of instant chocolate powder in my backpack, as well as bottled water which I boiled on the stove,’ he explained. He gave her a foil blister-pack of pills. ‘These are just non-prescription painkillers, but they might help dull the pain in your shoulder. As soon as we get off the mountain tomorrow you’ll need to have it X-rayed.’

Jarek dropped down to sit on the floor beside her and put another log on the fire. They sipped their drinks in an oddly companionable silence. Holly felt relieved, and grateful to be safe after her terror in the avalanche. The overly sweet hot chocolate tasted better than anything she had ever drunk, and sitting in front of the fire, she was finally starting to feel warm again.

It was a novelty to have someone take care of her, she mused. She had moved away from her family when she was eighteen and she valued her independence—especially since Stuart had ended his relationship with her when she’d told him she could not give him a child. She’d had to accept that she might always be alone and had told herself she was fine with that. Today on the mountain she had felt more vulnerable than she had ever felt in her life, but she hadn’t doubted that she could rely on Jarek to save her. Once again he had shown her a different side to him than the careless playboy image portrayed by the tabloids.

He had been her client for a week, but she was still no closer to working out who was the real Jarek, she though ruefully. She glanced at him and her heart gave a jolt when she found him watching her, with an unholy gleam in his bright blue eyes that evoked a different kind of heat deep inside her. The firelight danced over his naked torso, highlighting his taut abdominal muscles and gilding his broad shoulders.

Their eyes met...held...and the atmosphere inside the hut altered subtly from cosy to something far more dangerous.

Holly heard herself swallow and quickly looked away from him.

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