The Director's Wife by Armstrong Lindsay

Author:Armstrong, Lindsay [Armstrong, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780373114399
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 1990-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

CATHY took it, but with a dazed look on her face.

‘Use it,’ Tom said briefly. ‘You’re getting goose-bumps—here, I’ll do it.’

‘I can,’ she mumbled as with sudden impatience he put his hands on her wet, satiny buttocks and pulled her towards him.

‘You look too stunned to do anything, Mrs West,’ he drawled, and proceeded to rub her dry vigorously until she was pink and glowing all over and starting to protest,

‘Tom!’

But all he said was, ‘That’s better. Get your clothes on now and I’ll fix us a drink—I think we’ve earned one, don’t you?’

Cathy grimaced as she pulled on her blue French silk and lace panties. ‘Something, anyway.’

A glint of amusement lit his eyes, but he made no comment as she stood and stared stubbornly at him, clad only in that frivolous silken triangle. But when he merely raised an eyebrow at her, she suddenly felt as if she was blushing all over and in a reflex gesture brought her hands up to cover her breasts, then reached for her blouse and shorts and scrambled into them. Tom still didn’t comment as he turned away and produced a bottle of Scotch, although when he handed her her glass he did murmur, ‘I thought the fright you got might have doused the flames.’

Their fingers touched as she took the glass from him, but a measure of decorum had returned to her, together with a measure of something rather challenging. ‘It did, actually. But it’s left me feeling——’ she paused and studied her glass, then lifted her lashes ‘—oddly truculent. Is it a part of that “small death”?’

‘Definitely,’ he said with a twisted smile.

‘Do you feel hostile too?’

Tom laughed briefly. He hadn’t changed and his hair was still dripping on to his bare shoulders, but he didn’t look cold, he looked instead rather tough and impervious and curiously detached as he leant back against the galley with his arms folded and his drink unregarded in his hand. ‘I think I’ve had more experience of it,’ he answered obliquely.

Cathy sat down and sipped her Scotch, tilting her chin reflectively as it slid down her throat. ‘Well, I suppose it’s taught me something, if nothing else,’ she said ruefully.

He lifted a quizzical eyebrow at her. ‘Tell me.’

She thought for a bit, then said slowly, ‘Not to be superior about these things.’ She hesitated, stared at her drink, then lifted her eyes to his. ‘What’s for dinner?’

‘Cathy——’

But she got up swiftly and touched her fingers to his lips. ‘Don’t,’ she said quietly. ‘I’ve got the feeling that nothing we can say now is going to resolve anything for either of us, so let’s not spoil the rest of our gone-fishing trip.’

Tom got rid of his glass and hers and put his hands on her waist. ‘I’ve offended you again, but in fact my motives are rather pure this time. I don’t want to be party to you compromising your principles. But—it wouldn’t be difficult to rekindle the flames—perhaps that’s all we need to say to each other.

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