Returning to Claim His Heir by Amanda Cinelli

Author:Amanda Cinelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-11-05T16:18:18+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

SHE HAD KNOWN it would come to this from the moment she’d taken a seat across from him at dinner and looked into his warm, whisky-coloured eyes. It was too much—having him this way but not having him at all. If there had ever been a more perfect torture, she’d like to see it. This man who had stolen her heart and then broken it into a million pieces...he was everything she remembered and more.

His strong muscular arms locked her in place as their mouths moulded together like twin suns re-joined. He was a skilled kisser, and the heat of his mouth on hers was sending delicious shivers down her spine. Nora felt her body sing out the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ even as her mind screamed at her to stop. To think of the consequences of her actions.

She was sick of thinking.

She felt brazen and rebellious as she moved her body even closer into the cocoon of his arms, letting her tongue move against his in the sensuous rhythm he had once taught her on a darkened beach.

If she kept her eyes closed she could almost imagine that this moment was entwined with that one. That their lives had never been torn apart by the awful events in between. No. She couldn’t think of that. It was just him and her and this glorious fire they created between them when they touched.

‘I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping for this, but I’m not apologising,’ he whispered, his head dipping to kiss a path along her neck.

She gasped as his teeth grazed along the sensitive skin below her ear. His hands slid down her back to cup her behind, holding her against him. She could feel the evidence of his arousal pressing against the fabric of her dress. It would be so easy to lift the fabric and feel him properly...

A long-ago memory of him lifting her legs around his hips and taking her in a public elevator rose to her mind unbidden, heightening her arousal. She had always been like this with him—like a moth to a flame. She’d never reacted at all to any of the men her father had allowed her to date...

The single errant thought of her father was enough for her to get a hold on her rapidly deteriorating rational mind and detangle herself from Duarte, moving a single step away.

‘Why do you want me, Duarte?’ she asked. ‘Even after the things I’ve revealed, you still kiss me like that and it ties me up in knots.’

He shoved a hand through the short crop of his hair, golden eyes seeming luminous against his dark skin. ‘I’ve tried to ignore my attraction to you, because you have made it more than clear that whatever we had before is over. But every time we’re together I’m more drawn to you. You’re intelligent, and beautiful, and I find myself thinking of you far more often than I should probably admit. I think you still want me too.’

Nora felt heat and desire prickle across her skin at his words.

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