Secret Agent Affair by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2008-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Marja slowly opened her eyes as she floated back to earth. Everything inside of her seemed to grin breathlessly. As the warm blanket of euphoria receded, she could have sworn that her body still vibrated like a tuning fork.

Kane had rolled off and was lying beside her. Amazing how such a small space could accommodate them, she mused dreamily. They were two very different people. She felt like singing and he obviously preferred to retreat into silence.

Silence made her edgy.

Marja blew out a long breath. It would take awhile before her heart stopped hammering. “I should have you deliver pizza more often.”

Kane didn’t turn to look at her. “No, you shouldn’t.”

His voice was deep, solemn. Distant. Disturbing. Wedged in between the sofa’s cushions at her back and the length of Kane’s body on the other side of her, Marja raised herself up as best she could and looked down at his stern face.

Had she missed a step? Or was this his way of making sure she wasn’t suffering under some delusion that this had meant something?

“That wasn’t a marriage proposal,” she told him glibly. “And I wasn’t asking you to plight your troth. That was just…” And just like that, the soft, lovely feeling was gone, as if it had never existed. “Oh, I don’t know what it just was.”

Embarrassed, feeling like an idiot and hating it, Marja scrambled to regain her dignity and a vertical position. She climbed over Kane’s inert body as quickly as possible to gather up her scattered clothing.

But she wasn’t quite fast enough.

Sitting up, Kane clamped his hand around her wrist before she could make good her escape. His eyes met hers. His were flat, unfathomable. Hers, she knew, were angry. “I shouldn’t have done this.”

She yanked her hand away and quickly pulled on the cutoffs and her T-shirt. She still felt horribly naked. Not nude, naked. There was a huge difference.

“Why?” she snapped, zipping up the cutoffs. “Because of that caste system you have in your head? Or because there’s someone waiting for you to come back tonight?”

It suddenly occurred to her that he might not be single. Kane had never said, one way or another. She’d just assumed he was alone. Was he married, engaged, with someone? Was this just a mindless, one-night stand, made easy by her utter willingness?

Damn, she didn’t sleep around. She enjoyed sex and she tried to keep it light, but she’d never been the casual type. There’d always been feelings involved, at least on some level.

But when it came to Kane, all the rules fell apart. As if she was blindly following this pull, this surge of chemistry between them that couldn’t leave her alone.

“No.” It came out more like a growl than a one-syllable word, blanketing both of her suggestions.

“Because I want to do it again.”

All the indignation, the embarrassment, the silent upbraiding, instantly ceased. She understood now. Kane didn’t like to be pinned down and he was afraid that was where this was going to go, wasn’t he?

Her expression softened as the anger vanished.

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