Wife for a Day by Kate Walker

Author:Kate Walker [Walker, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1998-07-22T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

‘HAVING fun?’

The question was a warm murmur in Lily’s ear. Ronan’s dark head was bent close to hers, the heat of his breath caressing her skin.

‘Mmm….’

She managed an inarticulate murmur that did nothing to express the way she was feeling. Instead it was more a response to his nearness, the way his powerful body brushed against hers as he leaned so close, the faint, musky scent of his aftershave and the sensual slide of his silky hair across her cheek as he spoke.

But she was having fun. That was the most surprising thing about the evening so far. She had never expected to enjoy herself, seeing the trip as a duty rather than a pleasure, but in fact she had. From the moment she had appeared at the foot of the stairs, precisely at seven as arranged, there seemed to have been something special about the night.

She had spent a long time considering what to wear, eventually settling on a dusky rose-coloured slip dress, the skirt of which came to just above her knees. Silver drops sparkled in her ears and a matching necklet circled her slender throat. Her high-heeled sandals gave her extra confidence, making her tall enough to be able to meet Ronan’s blue-grey gaze head-on when she’d looked into his face to see what effect her appearance had on him.

What she had seen there both thrilled and terrified her. Sensual approval blazed unconcealed in the dark pools of his eyes edged by thick, dark lashes, his pupils widening until there was nothing but a thread of colour at their outer edge.

‘Very nice,’ he’d drawled softly, the husky note in the words catching on her nerves and making her pull in her breath in a small, shaky gasp.

‘You’re not so bad yourself.’

She’d forced herself to match the frankly sexual appraisal in both his look and his voice as she’d let her gaze run over the sleek, toned lines of his body in the breathtakingly elegant Italian-styled silver-grey suit and crisp white shirt. Her heart had turned over in instinctive reaction as she’d allowed herself just one moment of purely physical response to the man before her.

With the last of the evening sunlight gilding his glossy hair, turning the copper strands into streaks of bronze flame and highlighting the masculine beauty of his bone structure, he was very definitely the irresistible force personified. And, no matter how hard she tried to be the appropriate immovable object, deep down inside it just wasn’t working. That dark magnetism of his still tugged at every one of her senses, warning her that she was only too vulnerable to its appeal. She might have won a major battle, but there was still a great deal of the war to go.

And if she had ever had any doubt about that, then it was brought home to her now, with Ronan’s lean body so close, his indigo gaze fixed on her face and a strange half-smile playing around his expressive mouth.

One long hand rested

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