The Lynne Graham Collection by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release
Published: 2009-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

PINK colour swam up below Alissa’s fair skin in a revealing tide.

In the limo, Sergei slid a long brown forefinger below her chin to tip up her face. ‘You’re still angry with me,’ he noted in apparent surprise.

‘No, I’m not. I’m not a child either. I do appreciate that I was equally responsible for what occurred,’ she said woodenly, long feathery lashes veiling her aquamarine eyes from his scrutiny.

Unholy amusement lit up Sergei’s smile; he was in an unusually good mood. She was still furious with him and couldn’t hide it and he loved that transparency of hers for its rarity. Her refusal to meet his eyes and her rigidity spoke for her. Women didn’t treat him that way and her nerve in doing so intrigued him. She was a novelty and so far the exact opposite of the woman described in that psychological profile. She was warm when she was supposed to be cool, passionate when she was supposed to be indifferent and deeply attached to her family when she was supposed to be selfish and detached. Even so, whatever conundrum Alissa presented, she had put on a marvellous show for his grandmother’s benefit.

‘I have a gift for you.’ Sergei presented her with a jewel case.

‘Another one?’ Alissa asked in disbelief and she was annoyed when that tart response only made her feel rude and ungracious.

‘I always reward excellence and you surpassed my highest expectations today,’ Sergei drawled as smooth as glass.

‘At the wedding…or on the bed?’ Alissa queried in a frozen little voice of supreme scorn.

Her tone was wasted on Sergei, who merely vented an appreciative laugh that emphasised how far apart they were in terms of humour. ‘You were a triumph everywhere, angil moy.’

With pronounced reluctance Alissa flipped up the lid of the case to reveal a diamond necklace that would surely have been worthy of the Crown jewels exhibited in the Tower of London. In spite of the fact that she was determined not to be impressed, her lips fell wide as she gazed at the river of perfectly matched glittering stones embellished by a magnificent pendant with a huge opulent emerald at its heart.

‘Well, thank you very much,’ she muttered finally, reminding herself that Alexa would have snatched it up, put it on and wrapped her arms gratefully round his neck in reward for such generosity.

‘Don’t you like jewellery?’

‘Oh, very much,’ she hastened to declare, steeling herself to remove the necklace from the case and behave as he almost certainly expected her to and wrap it straight round her neck. ‘But you really don’t need to give me stuff like this.’

Sergei did up the clasp. The stunning pendant was heavy and cold on her skin. Her reward for excellence. Alissa remembered that wild raunchy coupling on the bed, which had evidently pleased him very much. Her tummy clenched with a disturbing combination of intense shame and equally intense excitement. Her virginity hadn’t repulsed him in the slightest and, although what she had allowed to

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