The Ultimate Surrender by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2000-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

It was the noise of the water that woke Polly. At first confused and half asleep, she thought it had started to rain—very hard—and then, as she became fully awake, she thought she must be able to hear the shower in the adjoining bedroom: But then, as she lifted her head from the pillow and saw the bar of light showing under the closed en suite bathroom door, the full realisation that someone was actually in the shower in her room, hit her.

Without considering that she could be putting herself in danger, she got out of bed, pulling on the hotel robe as she marched purposefully towards the bathroom door and pushed it open.

As he saw the bathroom door opening Marcus quickly grabbed a towel, turning off the shower.

‘Marcus!’ Polly gasped in disbelief. ‘What are you doing here?’

‘What does it look like I’m doing?’ Marcus asked her laconically.

‘This is my room,’ Polly informed him angrily. ‘How did you get in, and why are you having a shower?’

‘Correction, this is our room,’ Marcus informed her grimly. ‘It seems that the hotel has made a mistake and booked us both into the same room—perhaps because we share the same surname and the same address. I don’t know, and right now I don’t particularly care just how the error occurred. But what I can tell you, before you say anything else, is that the hotel is fully booked and there are no spare rooms.’

‘What?’ Polly rubbed her eyes sleepily. She felt as though she had strayed into some weird surreal dream. It seemed an impossibly bizarre coincidence that she and Marcus should have been given the same room, but one look at his face warned her that he was in no mood for her to tell him that she didn’t believe him. And besides, what possible motive could he have for lying?

And then a horrible suspicion struck her.

‘You haven’t brought…anyone back with you, have you?’ she asked him huskily.

There was a small, sharp silence before Marcus replied curtly, ‘No, I haven’t.’

‘Oh…’

She stifled a huge yawn. Even though the sound of the shower had woken her up she was still feeling the effect of the herbal sleeping tablet she had taken. Her eyes felt heavy and she longed to go back to bed, curl up and go back to sleep. To stifle another yawn she raised her hand to her mouth, and as she did so her overlarge robe fell open revealing the soft satin-skinned curve of her breast.

Marcus felt as though someone had kicked him in the stomach, and the urge to take hold of her and bury his face in the creamy scented warmth of her neck, to slide his hands inside her robe and touch her, feel her naked body against his own, was so acute and overwhelming that he had to remind himself of just what Polly was doing in London to stop himself from giving in to it. And because of that, and his unwanted jealousy, he heard himself

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