Mistresses: Blackmailed With Diamonds / Shackled With Rubies by Lucy Gordon;Sarah Morgan;Robyn Donald;Lucy Monroe;Lee Wilkinson;Kate Walker

Author:Lucy Gordon;Sarah Morgan;Robyn Donald;Lucy Monroe;Lee Wilkinson;Kate Walker
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd.
Published: 2012-09-06T18:49:35+00:00

Keir yawned, and kissed the top of her head.

‘Mmf,’ Hope groaned, stretching, welcoming the erotic slide of skin against skin, the heat and the flash—followed by the slow burn—of renewed desire. ‘Satisfied now that I love you?’

His voice was lazy, richly textured with a love he no longer tried to hide. ‘I won’t ever be satisfied. You’re like a drug I can’t get enough of.’

She looked up into molten eyes. ‘You know, I was incredibly blind. I can’t believe how blind I was! I was so sure I couldn’t get you out of my system because we hadn’t actually made love. I was positive that if we had an affair I’d get rid of such an inconvenient passion.’

‘I really object to being thought of as some sort of disease you can immunise yourself against.’ But he was smiling, his gaze tender.

Sighing, Hope rubbed her toes up the inside of his leg, enjoying the way his calf muscles flexed. ‘I should have known I’d never be able to vaccinate myself against you. As it was, making love with you really drove me over the edge, but I still wouldn’t admit that I loved you.’

‘I don’t blame you,’ he said judicially. ‘You overheard a pretty damning conversation.’

‘Yet you didn’t behave like the demon I’d believed in all these years—and I must have known, deep down, that you weren’t, because I wouldn’t have trusted you with a place in the baby’s life if I’d believed that.’

‘I hope not,’ he said grimly, ‘but I was under no illusions. I’d put you in a hell of a position—pregnant, with no money, no job, no prospects.’

She responded to the fleeting note of self-contempt in his voice with a vigour that startled her. Kissing his shoulder, she muttered, ‘I’d have managed.’

‘I know,’ he said, sounding surprised. His chest lifted in wry laughter. ‘I’m learning not to think of you as that unsure eighteen-year-old I fell in love with. When I arrived back in Noosa to find you gone—I knew then that I’d never get over you. If you wanted revenge for the way I dealt with your father’s offer four years ago, Hope, you had it then. I damned near tore the place apart, only to find that no one had heard from you—even the Petries had no idea where you were. I made them promise to contact me the minute they heard—and wondered how the hell I was going to find you if you didn’t write to them.’

His voice broke; he tilted her face and kissed her with unleashed male power.

‘I’m sorry,’ she whispered, touching his face lovingly.

‘It served me right. Until I got to the Gold Coast and actually saw you I had nightmares, where I searched for you, knowing in that bloody awful way you do in nightmares that you were desperate and lost and calling for me.’

Hope hugged him tightly and kissed him. ‘I won’t ever run away again.’

‘Good.’ His smile was tinged with irony. ‘Your mother was right—you needed to get away. But even at eighteen you were strong enough to stand and face anyone.

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