The Inheritance by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Greer allowed the myriad details that were part of her job to engulf her for the next few days. All told, the work took her mind off her private life. Especially her feelings. If she didn’t think about them, didn’t think about the way Megan Maitland’s tall, dark and sexy nephew undid her composure, everything she’d experienced when he’d kissed her in front of the guesthouse would eventually fade away.

And she wanted it to fade away. In the worst way. Because there was absolutely no reason for the memory, the sensation, to exist other than to tantalize her, to tease her and make her yearn for the impossible. There was obviously no future in any of this. The man would be gone out of her life as soon as the charade and the reunion were tucked safely away in the past.

And if she allowed herself to daydream, allowed herself to think that there was more than a snowball’s chance in hell that perhaps he’d have some kind of feelings for her, the disappointment that she knew would be waiting for her might be too much for her to handle.

Fear of the yawning, steely jaws of disappointment had kept her from letting her heart be tempted before, at least by a man. It was enough that she’d allowed the dream of a family to raise her hopes over and over again when she was younger. Look where that had gotten her. Nowhere. She’d had her hopes dashed again and again, only to ultimately find herself still alone, still without a family to call her own.

She didn’t want to go through that kind of roller-coaster ride on the romantic front. Something told her that at her age, the result would be that much more devastating.

It was best not to begin something that would never have a happy ending.

Greer smiled to herself, typing a memo on her computer as she sat within the spacious office that came with being Megan Maitland’s right hand. Romantic front, right. She and romance didn’t even have so much as a nodding acquaintance, and it was best for everyone if it remained that way. There was no point in giving in to any wild flights of fantasy.

Despite all her logical arguments to the contrary, the taste of his lips insisted on remaining with her.

A sigh escaped. He’d kissed her.

Of course he’d kissed her, Greer mocked herself. His aunt was standing there, watching, and he was pretending to be her fiancé. He couldn’t very well have kicked her in the shins, now could he?

And if the kiss had gotten a little more intense than she’d anticipated, there was an explanation for that, too. Several explanations, actually. One was that she had no idea what it felt like to be kissed by a man. She’d shied away from every would-be encounter. Maybe men kissed like that when it meant nothing, how was she to know the difference?

The other explanation was that Rafe was just taking advantage of the moment. She’d

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