The Dining Club by Marina Anderson

Author:Marina Anderson [ANDERSON, MARINA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

Once they were in their room, Grace collapsed on the bed and within minutes was sound asleep. After he’d made sure she was comfortable, David settled himself in one of the armchairs and thought back over the evening, trying to work out why, for a time, he’d been doing his best to make sure that Grace failed tonight. Furthermore, he’d taken a perverse pleasure in it.

She was proving herself to be everything he’d ever wanted in a woman, with a body that was as receptive to the kind of sexuality he enjoyed as he could ask for, and a love for him that was beyond doubt.

He’d always wanted to find what he’d thought of as his perfect woman, yet now he seemed to have found her, he was deliberately trying to sabotage the relationship. Watching her tonight, as she reached the peak of her sexual pleasure time after time, he’d never been more aroused. He’d felt closer to her then than he’d ever felt to a woman, yet at the same time part of him hoped that she’d give in and choose to leave him. He wasn’t a fool. He’d watched the way Amber and Andrew had left Grace stranded as she was about to reach her final climax, and he’d understood Amber’s motive very well. It was fear. Andrew’s, on the other hand, couldn’t be fear, which left only one other logical conclusion. Andrew wanted Grace to fail, leaving the way open for him to ask her out.

A rival was the kind of challenge David would normally have relished, but this time a part of him wondered if it would be better if he released Grace soon, by ensuring that she failed the fourth trial, rather than ruin both their lives. And that was what would happen, he knew it would, because in truth no matter how perfect she was, or how much he loved her at the start, eventually he would tire of her.

Although not prone to self-analysis, he knew that boredom was anathema to him. He always had to find new interests: takeovers, financial ventures and of course new women. But to part from Grace now would, he realized with surprise, be impossible.

She was the only woman he’d brought to the Dining Club to pass the third trial, and for that reason alone he needed to see the game played to the finish. Tonight, at the end, as he’d enabled her sated body to be pleasured one final time, he’d also felt an overwhelming tenderness toward her.

When she’d snuggled against him, murmuring softly as he brought her back to their rooms, he’d wanted that feeling of tenderness to last, and until she fell asleep it had. It was only after that, when he had time to reflect, that the doubts surfaced again. Doubts about his ability to love, and doubts about how long she would keep him interested and intrigued if it proved possible.

As the hours passed, and dawn started to break, David remained seated in the chair, as he tried to solve a problem that, in truth, he had never expected to have to face.

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