The Heat Of Passion by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham [Graham, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

Carlo...who didn't want to explain anything. Was his reluctance to explain based on the reality that the truth was distinctly unsavoury? With a hiss of impatience Jessica asked herself where her wild imagination was taking her now. She was not the melodramatic type. A recollection of that stupid scene on the jet replayed and her skin heated. She didn't want to think about that. Right now there were more important things.

A dark-skinned maid escorted her along a mile of corridors, down a palatial gilded staircase and into a drawing-room. Jessica registered her first mistake as a plump woman in a black dress adorned by an opulent diamond brooch moved forward to greet her. Not the housekeeper, she guessed, her cheekbones colouring. Marika, Carlo's sister.

'How are you feeling? I was going to send a tray up to you later. I thought you would sleep for hours.' With a firm hand she drew Jessica deeper into the room. 'She looks much better, doesn't she, Carlo? Sunny, this is Jessica...'

Sunny extended a languid hand as though they had not yet met. 'Do let me see your ring,’ she enthused, holding onto Jessica's fingers with a surprisingly steely grip. ‘If s gorgeous. Your choice or Carlo's?’

'A shared choice,' Jessica breathed, removing her band again, but before she could move away Sunny tucked her arm chumily into hers so that they stood side by side.

'What do we look like together?' Sunny giggled. 'She's so small, Carlo!'

Carlo strolled forward, dark and devastating in an off white dinner jacket. His golden eyes burned as scorch-ingly bright as flames, a tiny muscle pulling at the sensual line of his mouth. Jessica sensed his faint tension but his slanting smile was a masterpiece of cool.

'How do you feel, caraV

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