Bound As His Business-Deal Bride (Mills & Boon Modern) by Kali Anthony

Author:Kali Anthony [Anthony, Kali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2020-11-26T15:48:53+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

EVE SNATCHED UP her evening bag and headed for the door of her room then stopped, looking around. There was a needling sensation, like her world was not quite right. Like she’d forgotten something. She turned and her gaze lingered on the dressing-table, where her engagement ring glittered in the low lights.

She looked down at her left hand and the sense that something was missing increased. Eve turned back, tossing her clutch onto the bed as she passed. Grabbing the ring, she slid the extravagant cluster of gemstones onto her finger. They lay cool against her skin, easing the burn of her overheated flesh.

Eve tried not to think about how comforting the weight of the engagement ring was whenever she wore it. She hadn’t realised properly how any of this would be, having believed she could cope with her feelings. Sadly, she’d underestimated how crushing unrequited desire could really be. How the cruel words she’d forced herself to say would chip away at her soul and blacken it for ever.

It had been one thing as a desperate, besotted twenty-year-old. When her father had found her in that rundown hotel, she’d been fuelled by fear and exhaustion, and in the horrible weeks that had followed she’d agreed to anything to protect Gage, her choices horrible yet clear. She’d also had the advantage of not seeing him. That distance had made the terrible choices seem easier. No one had witnessed her weeping into her pillow every night.

Soon she’d been a continent away from him after their last, terrible call when she’d destroyed his love for her and succeeded in turning it into blind hatred. But nothing had prepared her for the wearying exhaustion of the act she continued to play.

Eve smoothed her hands over her blue dress, perfect for travel because it was soft and body-hugging and had once made her feel beautiful. It also now made her feel exposed, the fabric the same vibrant colour as Gage’s eyes, matching her engagement ring to perfection. It clung to her body and reminded her with each movement she made of Gage’s hands softly stroking her.

She tried to ignore that sensation as she walked from her room down the stairs to travel to dinner with Greta Bonitz, blinking back the threatening tears. Kissing Gage, touching him. Making love, because it had been far more than sex. They had all been a critical error. Once their lips had touched it had been like her body had come home. The soul-deep sigh of relief.

But now she was left with lonely nights in a bed in a house where he lay just down the hall, because as much as her body wanted him again and again, she couldn’t let him have her. That realisation crippled her. If she let him touch her again, she might never let him go, and where would that leave them?

He wanted her, that was clear. They still burned brightly when they were together. While she had nothing to compare it with, their bodies didn’t lie like their minds did.

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