Contract Baby

Author:Lynne Graham [Graham, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Surrogate Mothers, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373120130
Google: UkN_299lSL4C
Amazon: 0373120133
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1998-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

POLLY'S mouth fell open at the same instant as her eyes shot wide. Raul stood in the doorway, a sizzling smile of amusement slashing his mouth as he absorbed her astonishment.

'But you look kind of cute...' Raul conceded, brilliant dark eyes roaming with unconcealed interest over the rose-tipped breasts pertly breaking through the bubbles for his scrutiny.

Wrenching free of her paralysed stillness, Polly sat up in a frantic rush and hugged her knees to her chest. Raul gave an extravagant wince. 'Sometimes you act like a ten-year-old, gatita.'

'Couldn't you have knocked on the door?' Polly demanded defensively.

'The door wasn't even closed,' he reminded her drily, and he leant back against the door, slowly pushing it shut, as if he was making some kind of statement.

Sooner than ask him what he was doing, and already having discarded as too dangerously provocative the idea of asking him to step outside while she vacated the bath and covered herself, Polly studied him anxiously from be low her dark lashes.

A tide of terrifying longing swept over her in a stormy wave. Her own heartbeat thundered inside her ears, and all the time her eyes were roaming all over him in hungry, helpless little darts. He was so incredibly tall in his light grey suit, his white shirt throwing his bronzed skin into exotic prominence, his luxuriant black hair gleaming under the recessed lights above, eyes glinting wicked gold in that lean, dark, devastating face.

'You missed me,' Raul purred, like a jungle cat basking in sunlight, his husky accent thickening and sending a trail of reaction down her taut spinal cord.

For heaven's sake, how could I have missed you? I last saw you in the early hours of this morning!' Polly snapped, but it was a challenge to snap when it was so outrageously difficult to even breathe normally in his radius.

'You don't just need lessons on how to be a proper wife...you need a bloody intensive training course!' Raul shot back at her with shocking abruptness. 'What does it take to get a pleasant response from you? Thumbscrews?'

Jolted by that sudden blaze of temper, Polly gazed up at him strickenly. She felt the most awful stinging surge of tears threatening at the back of her eyes. Hurriedly she bent her head. Maybe meeting your gorgeous mistress spoilt my day, she almost slung accusingly, but caution restrained her.

'Maybe I'm not used to sharing a bathroom,' she muttered ruefully.

"Then this is where we will start,' Raul delivered.

Start what, where? Polly wondered in complete confusion.

'Dios...I can hardly believe I flew back here just to be with you!'

'Did you? I thought your urgent business took precedence.'

'Possibly the prospect of getting my bride horizontal on the marital bed had greater appeal.'

'Oh...' Polly said after a startled pause. 'Do you have to be so crude?'

Without the slightest warning, strong hands curved under her arms and a split second later she was airborne. Raul straightened and held her ruthlessly imprisoned in mid-anas she dripped water and bubbles everywhere, her shaken face aghast.

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