The Innocent's Shameful Secret by Sara Craven

Author:Sara Craven [Craven, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

IT HADN’T SEEMED like that at the time, of course.

He was just being a good host, she’d told herself, but that hadn’t stopped her wanting to dance at his side as they made their way out of the courtyard. And not even glimpsing Eleni frowning at the saloni window could spoil her mood.

So where could they be going? she wondered as he started the Jeep. After all, there couldn’t be much of the island that hadn’t been already covered during their search for Millie and Kostas.

Unless he was planning to take her back to the cave...

Even the thought of it was enough to send her body tingling into dangerous warmth, shocking her with the force of her own yearning.

To hide her confusion, she hurried into speech. ‘This is very good of you.’

‘Not at all.’ He paused. ‘I thought you might like to discover a little more about our most important industry.’

Geography and economics...

Disappointment was almost choking her but she kept her tone bright. ‘Am I going to see round Rhymnos Oil? How marvellous.’

‘Not now,’ he said. ‘Not today.’ He turned the Jeep to the right, following the rough road along the coast, between the sea and yet more olive groves, all new territory for her. ‘Instead, we shall go back to where it all began.’

With some history thrown in...

Her mouth was beginning to ache with the effort of smiling, but she persevered. He was being kind and she needed to be grateful. Which was all he would expect from her in return.

But already, she was far too conscious of his presence beside her. Much too aware of his dark sculpted profile and the movement of his lean, strong hands on the wheel of the Jeep, evoking memories of his touch it was far safer to forget.

She forced herself to turn her head and concentrate on the sea, the faint breeze barely troubling its azure smoothness today as it stretched out to the horizon and beyond. A distance that, very soon, she would be covering on her journey back to England.

The prospect of her return and its inevitable confrontation with Aunt Nora was not one she relished.

She would be thankful when term recommenced and she could lose herself in the demands of her course work, she thought, feeling her eyes sting and telling herself it was just the dazzle of the sun on the water.

‘What troubles you, Selene mou?’

His question jolted her. She hadn’t realised she was being observed in her turn and she looked back at him, flushing a little. ‘Oh, the usual back-to-reality blues, I guess.’

‘Rhymnos has not seemed real to you?’

No, she thought, as longing tightened her throat. Because of you, it’s turned into a wild, impossible dream. And I don’t want to wake...

By some superhuman effort, she shrugged. Kept her tone casual. ‘Well, hardly—under the circumstances. If I’d come here on my own account, it might have been different.’

‘Ah,’ he said softly. ‘Then do you think you will come back?’

If you asked me, I’d stay...

And where

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