Boss's Heir Demand by Jackie Ashenden

Author:Jackie Ashenden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2025-01-03T19:31:51+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

MAUDE WASN’T QUITE sure what she was doing. Somehow the conversation had got away from her and somehow her control had got away from her, too. Somehow he’d taken it and he’d done it simply by existing. By being close. By telling her she could stay at Darkfell, that he wouldn’t sell it after all, and without demanding anything in return.

Her honesty, that was what she’d given him apparently, and that was what he’d been happy with, or so he’d said.

Except she didn’t believe him. He’d told her that he was a businessman and that he exploited every weakness, and yet he hadn’t exploited hers. He could have used her love of the forest against her to get her to do anything he wanted, but he hadn’t.

She knew what he wanted though, and a part of her wanted him to admit it. To test whether she actually had the power she thought she did, power over him. He’d tried to distance her with words, but he hadn’t meant them, she knew that. Not when she could see the blatant heat in his eyes.

It was bold of her to strip naked before him, but it wasn’t anything she hadn’t done before. He’d seen her by the pool and, in the forest that night, he’d run his hands over every inch of her. So she felt no embarrassment or shame, even though perhaps she should have felt both.

She only wanted to see if she was as powerful as she felt in this moment. Prove to herself, and maybe to him too, that the power she remembered from that night in the forest was still hers. The power of a primal goddess.

She needed it. Needed to know once and for all that she could unsettle him as badly as he unsettled her.

Desire flared in his dark gaze now, like embers of a banked fire igniting into life, and it made her heart race. The heat of his body burned through the cotton of his shirt and into her fingertips where they rested on his chest. He smelled so good, like all the wild places deep in the forest, where she could lose herself if she wanted...

‘You shouldn’t do this,’ he said softly.

‘Why not?’ She lifted her other hand and placed that on his chest too, testing the hard muscle she could feel beneath his clothes. ‘It’s nothing we haven’t done before.’

‘Sex will...complicate matters.’

‘Really? I thought you were an infamous playboy.’ She stepped even closer, the tips of her breasts grazing the cotton of his shirt. ‘You’re not supposed to care about sex complicating things.’

The fire in his eyes leapt higher and yet still he didn’t move. ‘Consider the last time we did this.’

‘I am considering it.’ She ran her fingertips down the front of his shirt, to the waistband of his trousers. ‘What’s the problem? It’s not as if I’m going to get pregnant again.’

The breath hissed in his throat as her fingertips dipped lower, over the hard length of him she could feel through the wool of his trousers.

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