Christos's Promise by Jane Porter

Author:Jane Porter
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

PRICKLES of awareness touched her spine, contrasting with the fever raging in her skin. Alysia struggled to deny the feeling. “I’m not going to pull the covers down just so you can see a sunburn.”

“You haven’t been in the sun for over a year. You could have second-or third-degree burns.”

“You’re exaggerating. I might be a little sore, but it’s just a sunburn.”

“I’ll be the judge of that.” Christos stalked to the edge of the bed and wrenched the covers from her clenched fingers, peeling the sheet back.

Alysia rolled over onto her stomach to protect her front, humiliated by his impersonal scrutiny. “Just a sunburn,” she gritted, “I told you. Now will you please allow me some privacy!”

“You’re fried to a crisp,” he answered, touching the middle of her back.

She couldn’t help wincing. It hurt, badly. “Please. The covers.”

“Not until I put something on your skin first. I’ve some aloe gel with a topical anesthetic in it that should help.”

“Can you at least let me cover my…bottom.” She felt his gaze move to the aforementioned and she blushed from head to toe, acutely embarrassed.

“You are modest,” he drawled, heading to the bathroom and returning with a hand towel and tube of ointment.

He spread the small towel across her bottom, going to great lengths to adjust it just so, his long fingers brushing the curve of her cheek not just once, but repeatedly, as he slid the small towel up, before tugging it down. To the left. Up a hair. Down a bit, and over to the right.

He was manhandling her and she found it degrading. But that didn’t seem to keep her from responding, each brush of his fingers, each slip of the towel sending fiery arcs of feeling through her veins, coiling need in the deepest part of her, a need so strong, so insistent that she throbbed from the inside out.

“That’s enough!” she snapped, finding his touch nearly as unbearable as the ache spreading from her womb into her limbs.

His fingers trailed across the dip in her spine, and tugged the small towel higher on her cheek, leaving the underside of her bottom exposed to air. “Are you sure? I wouldn’t want to deprive you of your modesty.”

“Then perhaps a bigger towel would have been more helpful,” she gritted from between clenched teeth.

“I was afraid a bigger towel would irritate the burn.”

The cool air seemed to caress her exposed bottom and it took every bit of her self-control to not wiggle. Part of her felt humiliated and another felt shamelessly excited. “You’re the one irritating the burn.”

He merely laughed softly, the husky sound reverberating from his chest. Unscrewing the cap from the ointment tube, Christos took a seat next to her on the bed.

His thigh brushed her hip and she tensed, shoulders hunching around her ears. She was aware of Christos in every nerve in her body, feeling his strength and warmth as if he were the sun and she the moon.

He rubbed the aloe between his hands and she could hear the slick lotion slurp against his skin.

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