A D'Angelo Like No Other by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘DID I HURT you?’ Michael frowned his concern as he moved up the bed to lie beside Eva, fingers gentle as he touched the tear-wet cheeks beneath the dark sweep of her lashes.

Her eyelids remained closed. ‘No.’

‘Then what—Eva...?’ he prompted sharply as she turned her head away from him. Damn it, he hadn’t meant things to go this far—had never intended— ‘Eva, speak to me, damn it!’ he pressed worriedly as he smoothed the tangle of dark hair back from the dampness of her brow.

‘And say what?’ she prompted bitterly. ‘I came to Paris because I believe your brother seduced my sister, and now—’

‘Now I’ve seduced you,’ Michael realised heavily.

‘Hardly!’ Eva scorned. ‘I was there too, Michael. Oh, God, I was there too...!’ More tears escaped her lids and fell down her pale cheeks.

‘Eva, look at me, damn it!’

She raised her lids slowly, those violet-coloured eyes appearing bruised and slightly haunted as she looked up at him. ‘What did we just do?’ She groaned. ‘What did I just do?’ She gave an agonised moan before turning away from him again and curling up into a huddled and defensive ball.

She looked so small and fragile, lying naked on her side with her back turned towards him. Michael could see the vulnerability of her hunched shoulders, the ridges along her slender spine, the gentle curve of her bottom.

‘I’ve only known you a matter of days!’ she continued to berate herself disgustedly. ‘I don’t really know you at all!’

‘You know me, Eva,’ Michael contradicted gruffly, knowing that it was true. Eva did know him, better than most people did or ever would.

It might have been only days since they first met, but they had been days when Michael knew he had revealed more of himself to Eva than he had to anyone for a very long time. If ever.

Just as he now knew Eva in that same deep and penetrating way...

And not just on a physical level.

He had come to like, not just to desire Eva these past few days, and discovering she was E J Foster, the photographer of ‘Harmony’, had ensured he had even further insight into exactly who and what Eva Foster was.

She was a woman who felt things deeply. A woman who was honest with herself to the point that she exposed the rawness of her emotions in a way Michael had never been able to do. Or, at least, not for many years.

And, it was that realisation, the honesty and rawness of Eva’s emotions, that confirmed the complete nonsense of Michael’s initial accusations to her. Much as he did not wish it to be true, he knew that Eva did truly believe that Rafe was the father of her sister’s babies.

Just as the honesty of her emotions just now had allowed her to give herself over to him so completely...

Michael could still taste her nectar on his lips as he slowly ran his tongue across them. Just as he could still feel the velvet softness

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