Forbidden by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: 0
Published: 2019-02-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“I have no idea what or who the two of you are talking about,” Rissa snapped. “And how dare you talk about my stepmother in that insulting manner.” She verbally attacked Royston as she stepped out from behind Zachary, an angry flush to her cheeks as she glared at the other man with glittering gray eyes.

“Clarissa, no,” Zachary bit out harshly as he bent to scoop her jacket from the leaf-strewn ground and thrust it at her. His hope was that his use of her formal name might alert her to the seriousness of this situation. “This is not the time for one of your indignant tirades,” he warned when he could see by her angrily flushed cheeks she had not heeded the warning.

“Tirades?” That expressive gray gaze was now turned accusingly on him. “It should be you, as the gentleman, who was defending Sophia and me when another man chooses to insult us.”

Zachary held her gaze as he pointedly reminded, “A man who is currently pointing a pistol at the two of us.”

She gave a scathing snort. “He can only shoot one of us, and quite frankly, I very much doubt he intends doing even that.”

Zachary drew in a sharp breath even as he gave his previous best friend a sideways glance. Royston was more than capable of shooting one of them. If that one happened to be Zachary, then he hated to think what might happen to his Angel once he was incapacitated or dead.

Royston’s mouth twisted into a sneer. “It would seem you have found yourself a little hellion, Harrogate.” His gaze swept over Rissa’s partially unclothed body, lingering appreciatively on the fullness of her breasts, the dark rose of one nipple clearly visible against material dampened by Zachary’s mouth.

A nerve pulsed in Zachary’s left cheek as he faced Rissa, at the same time hiding her exposed breasts from Royston. “Put your damned jacket on,” he bit out between clenched teeth. “Now,” he instructed harshly as he could see she was about to argue with him. Again. The spanking he had given her had obviously achieved nothing toward deterring her reckless nature.

Instead, it had aroused both of them to a degree that neither of them had been aware of Royston’s presence until it was too late.

“Do it now, Clarissa,” Zachary rasped.

Rissa was aware this was the second time Zachary had called her by her full name. As a warning she take the other man more seriously than she had so far? “The two of you seem to know each other,” she muttered as she quickly pulled on and refastened her velvet jacket.

The man with the pistol was the one to answer her. “Sharing a bed with the same woman not once but many times is sure to result in a certain intimacy.”

Rissa’s eyes widened in shock. Zachary and this other man had—they had—

“We were aged nineteen at the time, and I believe it only happened twice,” Zachary bleakly answered the other man.

Once, twice, or dozens of times, Rissa was still shocked.

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