Indiscretion by Hannah Fielding

Author:Hannah Fielding
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: London Wall Publishing

CHAPTER 9

Almost two weeks had gone by since Alexandra and Salvador’s romantic tête-à-tête at the Parador de La Luna; a fortnight during which she had barely set eyes on him. Salvador was clearly avoiding her and her wounded pride forbade her from seeking him out. He was often away on business, and when he did show up at the hacienda, he made sure they were never on their own. Alexandra had glimpsed him a few times in the company of Doña Isabel and she knew, like everyone else in the household, that Marujita had access to his apartment. Her stomach gave a sickening wrench every time she thought about it. Was the gypsy girl still his mistress? Did Salvador hold her and caress her, did he kiss her with such tenderness and aching intensity that it made the world grind to a standstill … as he had with her?

Alexandra’s emotions were in riotous disarray. In the days following the trip to Ronda, she had struggled with an onslaught of anger, guilt and confusion. She had let Salvador touch her in a way that no man had ever done. Why had she allowed him to break down her defences again, making her want him with such disconcerting intensity? She tried to blame it on the sangria, on the febrile Flamenco dance they had shared at the corrida party, and on the frenzied fiesta atmosphere; still, deep down she knew that the way she was feeling had nothing to do with all that. She despised herself for letting it happen, but it was time she admitted that whenever she was alone with him, she seemed to act in a way quite foreign to her. When Salvador looked at her, touched her, she felt herself weaken, her mind cloud.

The young man seemed determined to torture them both with this flame of desire that leapt between them, playing a game of cat and mouse with her senses, and then pushing her away. And now a seed had broken open inside her and a reckless hunger had taken root. Salvador’s hypnotic grey gaze haunted her mind and his burning touch filled her fevered dreams. Even though what she had told him was perilously close to a declaration of love, again he had walked away.

Alexandra’s blood pulsated with a longing she never knew existed, but her feelings were in torment. Her mind seethed with questions. Salvador was an intelligent, educated, energetic man, but when it came to taking control of his destiny he seemed totally overpowered by a dark fatalism. If only she knew how to shake him out of his inertia.

Yet for all her anxiety and confusion, she had never felt so alive. The raw truth of her love burned through her, although she had not been able to say the words to Salvador, and her heart ached with a pain she could hardly bear. Clutching her chaotic emotions tightly to herself, she had escaped into her world of writing, trying to release the storm that raged within her, not knowing how to deal with this impossible situation.

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