Ensnare: The Passenger’s Pleasure #1 (Paranormal Romance) by Mac Flynn

Author:Mac Flynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

The orders were taken and the menus taken away with them. The leader of the three women, the one who's suite was across from mine, leaned her elbows on the table and cradled her chin on the tops of her overlapped hands. She batted her eyes at Archer.

"So how's the search for your fairy-tale wife going? Find her yet?" she teased.

The uniformed man beside her grinned. "What's this about, Archer? Looking for love in all the wrong places?"

Archer chuckled. "It's not like that at all, Charlie."

"It isn't?" the woman continued. She leaned towards Charlie while her eyes remained on Archer. "He's been telling everyone around him that he might settle down and disappoint his millions of tabloid admirers by marrying."

"Hope to be a part of them, Renee?" Charlie asked her.

Renee leaned away from him and shrugged. "Isn't every girl?"

"I'm sure I don't," the middle woman spoke up.

My arch-nemesis snorted. "Of course you are, Alicia. Everyone is."

"I might as well throw in my hat," the third spoke up.

"But aren't you married to the Duke of Cornwall?" one of the women down the table asked her.

She frowned and waved her hand in front of her face. "He's such a bore that we're divorcing at the end of this week. I'll be back to plain Lana Galas." Her eyes flickered to Archer. "That is, unless I can find another man who'd be better at entertaining me."

Archer held up his hands. "Before we start fighting over me in the third person, I want to dispel the rumors. I'm not looking for a wife. I've found her, and she's sitting at this table right now."

The other guests at the table gasped. The captain chuckled.

"You have a flare for the dramatic, Max," he complimented him.

Archer grinned. "And I've only just begun."

One of the boat stewards came up to the table. He held a book in his hands which he presented to Archer. The tome was three inches thick and had a plain brown leather cover. I didn't see any words on the covers or spine. The pages between the covers was yellow with age.

I had to have it.

The thought came to me so suddenly that I jerked back in my seat. I shook my head and tried to clear the strange, sudden desire, but it remained. I wanted that book. My body burned with a hot, sensual desire to possess the tome. I felt my fingers twitched. If only I could stroke its cover and brush my fingers over its pages. I felt I could die happy.

I took a deep breath and swallowed some of the heat inside me. This was nonsense talk. I was much too sensible to fall for such foolish, sudden impulses, and over a book!

Archer took the tome in hand and smiled at the three curious women opposite him.

"Perfect timing," Archer complimented the man. The steward smiled, bowed his head and left.

"What is it?" Renee purred.

"My wedding gift," Archer explained as he held up the book on the fingers of one hand.

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