Unwelcome Invader (Harlequin Treasury 1990's) by Angela Devine

Author:Angela Devine [Devine, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Adult, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Harlequin Treasury, Multicultural, Frenchman, Business Deals, Love Games, Seduction
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Presents 90s
Published: 2011-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

A PAINFUL hope began to flutter deep in Jane’s breast. Did this mean that Marc shared her feelings? Could he have fallen in love with her just as she had with him?

‘Do you mean…that you love me too?’ she asked, her eyes kindling.

Marc’s features, which had been first indulgent and then calmly appraising, underwent another transformation. His eyes narrowed, his mouth tensed, his expression grew hard and mocking.

‘I didn’t say that, sweetheart,’ he replied caustically. ‘I just think it would be a pity if our little affair were to stop when it has barely begun.’

His cruelty cut her to the quick, but at least she no longer felt like crying. Instead she wanted to punch him in the nose. Dashing away the tears, she sat up and wrapped herself into a tight, protective ball with her arms around her knees. How could she have been such a fool as to expose herself to ridicule like that? Her warm, tremulous yearning was suddenly replaced by blazing antagonism. A dangerous expression crossed her face.

‘Why would it be a pity?’ she asked aggressively.

He shrugged.

‘Well, sex improves after the first time.’

‘Are you telling me I wasn’t any good?’ she demanded.

‘On the contrary, I think you were stupendous. For a beginner.’

‘You patronising swine!’

The violence of Jane’s emotions astonished her. She hated Marc, she wanted to hit out at him for humiliating her so unbearably. Only moments before she had thought he was sensitive, tender, loving. Now his mood seemed to have changed completely and he seemed bent on transforming an experience of almost mystic beauty into something sordid and ugly. Why? Why was he being so hateful? Were all men like this once they had taken what they wanted?

‘There’s no need to be crude,’ he chided.

‘Go to hell! I wouldn’t cross the road with you, much less go to France.’

‘A pity. We could have a wonderful time together. I could take you to Paris—we could eat dinner in a restaurant overlooking the Seine, visit Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower, go to some great nightclubs. Then we could drive down through the countryside to Bordeaux. France is very beautiful at this time of the year and we could stop at some of the best vineyards and caves on the way.’

‘Oh, yes,’ retorted Jane with heavy sarcasm. ‘And after that?’

‘Who knows?’ asked Marc, his eyes looking opaque and fathomless. ‘There’s no point in trying to erect fences around love, or in tying it down to contracts and regulations. That only spoils the magic.’

Jane was silent, biting her lip and trying to come to terms with her own anguish. It was all very well for Marc to talk about ‘love’, but it was perfectly clear that what he actually meant was sex. Their love-making had left her feeling exalted and transfigured, but after his first brief hint of tenderness Marc now looked like a hunted man on the run. Ready enough for a ‘no strings’ passion, but deeply uneasy at the thought of being trapped. Obviously

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