Wild Fire by Liz Fielding

Author:Liz Fielding [Fielding, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781854879776
Google: aIkKAAAACAAJ
Amazon: B004V5FEHY
Goodreads: 570842
Publisher: Scarlet Books
Published: 1997-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

MELANIE had longed for the look she could see in his eyes as he stared down at her. No man had ever looked at her in quite that way before, with a desire so raw that her breath caught in her throat.

As if he knew he reached out and touched her there, gently teasing his knuckles down her neck, into the small hollow at the base of her throat before turning his hand to run the tip of his thumb along the line of her breast bone. She held her breath, waiting, knowing that she was a heartbeat from some great secret. For a moment it seemed she would gain her heart’s wish, then without warning he stood up, dropping the bottle on the sand beside her.

"You don’t have to be a contortionist to finish the job, Melanie," he said, tightly. And snatching up the snorkeling gear he walked swiftly away, leaving her to cope alone with feelings that had spiraled so swiftly out of control taking her on some blazingly new emotional roller-coaster. For a moment they had been poised together at the pinnacle, now she was crashing back to earth alone.

Shivering, she sat up bunching her legs up to her body as if attempting to hide her naked breasts from Jack, from herself. But it was too late. And she had exposed more than her body. Jack knew now that he would only have to click his fingers and she would be his. He’d probably always known it. That day when she’d cut herself, if he’d kissed her then there was only one place it could ever have ended up. He’d known it even if she had not quite understood what had hung in the air between them. And he’d made his choice. Sent her away.

He had no intention of getting involved with the girl who came in three times a week to clean his sink. No matter how much she turned him on. And he’d just made it plain that he still felt the same way. There was some consolation to be gained from the fact that he was as angry with himself as he was with her. But not much.

She wrapped her arms about her legs and rested her cheek on her knees. What on earth was the matter with her, anyway? It wasn’t the first time a man had rubbed her back with sun cream for heaven’s sake. There had been a time when she’d spent half her life on a beach and her back had been the subject of some very assiduous attention indeed.

But Jack Wolfe hadn’t just been rubbing sun cream on her back. He had caressed her with it, stroked her, deliberately arousing her with every touch. He’d had seduction in mind and she couldn’t have made her response plainer. So why, having quite deliberately torched those indescribable feelings, had Jack walked away?

Because he didn’t get involved with women who worked for him? Somehow she didn’t think so. A man who made his own rules could break them any time he wanted.

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