Right Of Possession by Jayne Castle

Author:Jayne Castle [Jayne Castle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-11-07T08:36:39+00:00

"Meaning that I'm going to treat you to dinner, naturally."

'Are you?" she replied softly, a little dangerously. "But you'll be packed and gone by tonight, won't you, Josh?" She could feel the slight trembling in her fingertips and reached out to grasp the edge of the counter to still them. She prayed he hadn't noticed. Was he going to refuse to move out, after all?

"As you said last night, you can't keep me from hanging around your door, sweetheart," he drawled, seemingly unimpressed by her quelling look. "There's a price for my moving out without a fuss. Surely you expected that? You didn't really think I'd just slink off into the sunset, did you?"

"Why shouldn't I think exactly that?" she retorted, feeling baited by the taunting note buried in the gravelly voice. But privately she told herself she'd known it wasn't going to be easy. She ignored the other tiny voice which told her she hadn't wanted it to be easy.

"Because you're an intelligent woman who wouldn't make such a fundamental error as underestimating me."

"And the price is dinner?" Carefully she kept her voice even, not knowing whether to be relieved or dismayed by this turn of events. Josh had been right about one thing last night. Matters had been simpler back in the jungle. She hadn't begun questioning her feelings until she was safely home!

"Is that so high? Remember you'll be able to feel safe because you'll know I'm not going to be sleeping here tonight," he reminded her easily, and then cocked an inquiring brow. "Or are you afraid I shall put so much temptation in your path that you'll change your mind and beg me to stay?"

"You seem to have gained a rather false impression of

my self-control," she retorted tartly, rinsing her cup at the sink. He was deliberately challenging her and she knew it. But she didn't seem to be able to resist rising to the bait! "Don't be misled by what happened last night." She couldn't look at him as she referred to the events of the previous evening.

"Then if you're sure you have nothing to fear," he went on smoothly, "I'll pick you up at six thirty. Will that give you time to get home and changed for dinner?"

"Damn it, Josh, I haven't agreed to go out with you!" she began wrathfully, knowing full well she was going to lose this one. She turned the impact of a blue-green glare on him, her mouth tight at the corners, and waited for his arguments and demands. But all he said was,

"Please?"

Reva blinked, taken aback. She knew she was being manipulated again. Knew it and couldn't avoid it.

"You look," she told him blandly, "like Xavier when he's asking for a piece of the fish I'm preparing for my own dinner. Sort of wistful and hopeful. But you don't fool me for one minute. Either of you!"

"You know that if you don't grant the favor we're liable to sneak up and help ourselves anyway?" he grinned.

Reva drew a resigned breath.

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