(Long, Tall Texans Most Wanted #2) The Case Of The Confirmed Bachelor by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Tabby had to force herself to get up and dress and go to work the next morning. She was sick and sore and her mind wasn't on her job. She taught mechanically, but she knew that the emotional turmoil she was experiencing had to show.

It did. Her mirror told her that. She hadn't talked to Nick again since last night. He was probably at home with a humdinger of a hangover, and she didn't care. She was just glad that he wasn't on campus. Having to see him now would make her sick. How could she have forgotten all her principles and given in like that?

Because she loved him, she thought with bitter resignation. To her, it had been a surrender that was a declaration of love and commitment. But to Nick it had been another interlude, a brief moment's pleasure that carried no responsibilities. He hadn't even offered to protect her. She flushed. Actually, she had to admit, he'd been much too involved to have been capable of it. She didn't even know if that was normal behavior for him, or if he'd wanted her too much to think of the consequences or even where they were. It would make it somehow a little more acceptable to think that cool, calm Nick had gone off the deep end because of a monstrous desire for her.

That was hardly likely, though, a man of his sophistication and experience. He'd known exactly how to bring her to ecstasy, and he'd done it. She'd never dreamed that such pleasure even existed.

It was probably addictive, she thought miserably, because even with The Case of the Confirmed Bachelor 233

its soreness, her body ached for him all over again. The memories were vivid and sweet, and her skin was ultrasensitive after having known the touch of his hands and mouth.

She agonized over the thought that she'd cut her own throat.

Helen had warned her that giving in to him would only chase him away, and that was already happening. If he hadn't been drunk, he'd never have called her at all last night. He wouldn't even respect her now. He'd add her to the rank and file of his conquests, and forget her just as easily as he'd forgotten the others over the years.

Her mind was in limbo. She'd borrowed a small clay tablet, a document from ancient Sumer done in pictographs, to show her class. She'd do well, she thought, to concentrate on what she was getting paid for.

"This tablet dates to the ancient Sumerian civilization," she lectured, displaying it. "So far, now, we've covered the earliest settle-ment in Mesopotamia, which was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now southern Iraq. The Sumerians were the first people to develop a written language. Who can tell me the first language they produced?"

A hand went up and she nodded at the dark-haired young man.

"Pictographs."

She smiled at him. He was one of her best students, and he had every intention of one day following in her footsteps as an educator.

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