Loving by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub

She heard Jay sigh.

*rm sorry I forced your hand earlier on.' He leaned back against the wall tiredly, hands pushed into his pockets. The material strained across his thighs and her attention was concentrated like a fly trapped in honey on the strong play of muscles there. Desperately she wrenched it away.

'I had already decided to accept your proposal,' she told him huskily. ^Fve been trying all week to convince myself that you're right and that we'd each

be contributing equally to the marriage, but.. .'

'But you still haven't managed to do it?' He made a small explosive sound in the back of his throat as he levered himself off the wall and came towards her.

'You know what your trouble is, don't you, Claire? You're too damned proud! Do you honestly think that money can actually compensate for all the things you can give Heather that I can't? No! When I walked in here tonight she actually smiled at me. Do you know how long it's been since she did that? Since I came back to this house and found anything like a welcome, in fact? To walk in here tonight after a week spent arguing over the final details of the contract...' He made a brief gesture that encompassed without words what he was trying to say. 'Susie wasn't much of a homemaker. She never wanted to get married. She was a model when I met her, and she bitterly resented being dragged down here and buried alive in the country, as she called it. If I hadn't stopped her, she'd have had Heather aborted. Sometimes I wondered if...'

'No ... No, you mustn't think that!' Claire's voice shook with anguish for him. Without even thinking about it she reached out and touched his arm lightly.

It was strange to feel his living flesh beneath the fabric of his shirt and her fingertips lingered briefly before she realised what he was and hurriedly withdrew.

'Let's go and sit down,' he suggested. 'We've got a lot to talk about.'

In the sitting-room he poured them both a drink. Claire sat on the edge of her chair, nursing hers tensely. Jay shivered slightly as he sat down.

'It feels cold in here.'

'The central heating's on, but I suppose it was much hotter in Dallas.'

'Mmm ... I suppose it was, although I never got beyond my air-conditioned hotel room, or an equally air-conditioned suite of offices.'

'But you got the contract. I wish I'd known; I could have made a special celebratory meal.'

There was a moment's odd silence that for some reason made her skin prickle wamingly, and then Jay said in a husky voice, 'I wish you'd known too. I think I could quite easily get used to being spoiled by you, Claire ... This room is cold,' he added abruptly. 'I've never liked it. It's too cold and sterile. So is the whole house, come to think of it, but I was desperate to find somewhere at the time, and Susie was no help, complaining that she hated everything we saw.

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