Savage Atonement by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-01-24T23:45:12+00:00

'I....' How could she tell him that she didn't know? That she had never sunbathed as other girls did, and that right now her stomach was heaving protestingly at the thought that all she was wearing was several brief scraps of silk, a very perilous defence against the eyes of such men as her stepfather.

'There's no need to cling on to that thing as though it's a life-raft, Laurel,' Oliver told her sardonically, suddenly moving so that he too was sitting up, and although she still had her back to him, out of the corner of her eye she could see his feet placed firmly on the tiles and she knew that the slightest movement would bring the bare suntanned length of his thigh against hers.

She tensed as she waited for him to demand that she remove her robe, and was surprised to discover within herself a sense of anti-climax when he said instead,

'Now that you're here you can oil my back for me. Unlike you I've no desire to burn. A real martyr, aren't you, Laurel?' he goaded softly, 'And like all martyrs you enjoy the thought of burning for your sins; isn't that right?'

'I don't know what you mean,' she told him stiffly, taking the bottle of oil he handed her, and glad that he had turned on to his stomach so that he couldn't see the dark colour running up under her skin.

She did know what he meant, or what she thought he meant. He was trying to suggest that she enjoyed being frigid and unresponsive to men; that it was a form of self-punishment, but that wasn't true?

Was it?

'Do my shoulders first, will you?'

The lazy command focused her attention on the breadth of his torso, her eyes drifting in helpless fascination down the length of his spine and the masculinity of his hips. His legs were long, sprinkled with dark hairs, and at the thought of touching them a thousand nerves jumped in protest under her skin.

'What's the matter, Laurel?' Just in time she caught the note of hard anger in his voice. 'Have I got to remind you again that I'm not your stepfather? I'm just a man like any other, and by no stretch of the imagination am I so starved of sex that I'm about to pounce on you the moment you touch me!'

He turned and looked mockingly at her over his shoulder, his eyes suddenly narrowing intently. She looked down and realised that her robe had come open.

'And take that damned thing off,' he growled, 'otherwise I might start thinking you're wearing it because you want me to take it off for you!'

As he turned away to rest his forehead on his forearms, and was taking absolutely no notice of her at all, Laurel couldn't see the point in refusing. And besides, if she did, he might actually think she did want him to ... to.... Hurriedly shrugging off the robe, she folded it neatly and placed it on her lounger, only

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