A Queen for the Taking? by Kate Hewitt

Author:Kate Hewitt
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

SANDRO SAT ACROSS from Liana on the royal jet and picked a strawberry dipped in chocolate from the silver platter between them. He held it out to her, a mischievous smile playing about his mouth. They were halfway across the Atlantic and he was determined to begin what he suspected would be the very enjoyable process of melting his wife.

It was already working; last night she’d lain in his arms and it had only taken her an hour to relax. He’d watched her face soften in sleep, those tightly pursed lips part on a sigh. Her lashes had fluttered and brushed against her porcelain-pale cheeks. He’d stroked her cheek, amazed at its softness, at the softness he felt in himself towards this woman he’d thought was so hard. So icy and cold.

Yet even as he’d held her and stroked her cheek, he’d wondered. Doubted, because God only knew his judgment had been off before. He’d thought the best of his parents, of the one woman he’d let into his heart. He’d insisted on it, even when everything said otherwise.

Was he doing the same now? Desperate, even now, to love and be loved? Because Liana might lie in his arms, but she didn’t always look as if she wanted to be there. One minute she was kissing him with a sudden, sweet passion that had taken him by surprise on the balcony and the next she was cool and remote, all chilly indifference.

Which was the real woman?

Now Liana eyed the chocolate strawberry askance. ‘You have a thing about messy food.’

‘They tend to be aphrodisiacal.’

‘Aphro— Oh.’ Her cheeks pinked, and he grinned.

‘Try one.’

‘I don’t—’

‘You don’t like strawberries? Or chocolate? I can’t believe it.’

‘I’ve never had one before.’

‘A strawberry?’

‘Not one dipped in chocolate.’ Her blush deepened and she looked away. ‘Sometimes I think I must seem ridiculous to you.’

Surprise made him falter. He dropped his hand, still holding the strawberry, the chocolate smearing his fingers. ‘Nothing about you is ridiculous, Liana.’

‘I know I haven’t experienced much of life.’

‘And why is that?’

She paused, pressed her lips together. ‘I don’t know.’

But he thought she did. She must at least have a good guess. No need to press her now, though. Instead he held out the strawberry once more. ‘Try it.’

She hesitated, her lips still pursed, everything in her resisting. Then he saw the moment when she made the decision to be different, and with a little shrug and a smile she reached for it. He drew back, his eyes glinting challenge. ‘Open your mouth.’

Her eyes widened and for a second he thought he’d pushed too far. Too hard. But she did as he said, parting her lips so he could hold the strawberry out to her. He felt his groin harden and ache as she touched the tip of her pink tongue to the chocolate and licked.

‘Mmm.’ She sounded so sweetly innocent and yet as seductive as a siren as she gazed at him with eyes as wide and clear as lakes. He could drown in them.

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