The Call of the Desert by Abby Green

Author:Abby Green [Green, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4089-2637-6
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2011-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

“WOULD you like some champagne, Dr Somerton?”

Julia looked at the impeccably made-up Burquati air hostess and decided she could so with a little fortitude. She smiled tightly. “Yes, please.”

The woman expertly filled a real crystal flute with champagne, and then passed a glass of what looked like brandy to Kaden, who sat across the aisle of his own private jet.

It was dark outside. It would take roughly six hours to get to B’harani, the capital of Al-Omar. They’d been scheduled to leave that afternoon, but Kaden had been held up with business matters—hence their overnight flight.

Julia’s brain was already slipping helplessly back into the well-worn groove that it had trod all day. Why had she decided to come? A flush went through her body when she remembered back to that morning, as dawn had been breaking. She’d been exhausted. Kaden had been ruthless and remorseless all night. Each orgasm had felt like another brick dismantled in the wall of her defences.

Kaden had hovered over her and asked throatily, “So, will you come to Al-Omar with me?”

Julia had sensed in him a tiny moment of such fleeting vulnerability that she must have imagined it, but it had got to her, stripping away any remaining defences. Stripping away her automatic response to say no and do the right thing, the logical thing. Lying there naked, she’d been at his mercy. To her ongoing shame, she’d just nodded her head weakly, reminding herself that this was finite and soon she would be back to normal, hopefully a little freer of painful memories.

“You don’t need to look like you’re about to walk the plank. You’re going to be a guest at the society wedding of the year.”

Julia clutched the glass tightly in her hand now and looked at Kaden. Since she’d got into his car just a couple of hours ago outside her house he’d been on the phone. And he’d been engrossed in his laptop since boarding the flight. But now he was looking at her.

Unbidden, the words tumbled out. “Why are you doing this? Why are we here?” Why have you come back into my life to tear me open all over again? And, worse, why am I allowing it to happen?

It was as if she had to hear him reiterate the reasons why she was being so stupid. Kaden’s dark eyes held hers for a long moment and then dropped in a leisurely appraisal of her body. Julia was modestly dressed: a plain shirt tucked into high-waisted flared trousers. Her hair was coiled back into a chignon. It should have felt like armour, but it didn’t. Kaden’s laser-like gaze had the power to make her feel naked.

His eyes met hers again. “We are doing this to sate the desire between us. We’re two consenting adults taking pleasure in one another. Nothing more, nothing less.”

Julia swallowed painfully. “There’s more to it than that, Kaden. We have a past together. Something you seem determined to ignore.”

Kaden turned more fully in his seat, and Julia felt threatened when she saw how cynicism stamped the lines of his face.

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