The Secret of His SeductionBought by Maggie Cox

Author:Maggie Cox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon By Request
Published: 2014-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

BRIANA’S hands tightened in shock round his smooth hard biceps. ‘You can’t be serious?’ Right up until that moment she had barely given birth control a thought, she was ashamed to admit. The realisation made her aware of just how reckless she could be around this man—how swept away by forces she definitely wasn’t in control of. ‘No! You can’t. We mustn’t!’

But he was moving inside her again, and the sensation of his hard, strong body joined to hers was hurtling every thought that arose crashing against rocks.

‘I should have been there at my son’s birth! I should have been there for him for the last four years!’ Suddenly growing still, Pascual withdrew from her just before it was too late. He sat back on his heels, breathing hard.

Startled and hurt by what he had exclaimed, Briana lay there, her breath laboured, watching him as he suddenly moved further down the bed—as if he wanted to put as much distance as possible between them.

Dropping his head into his hands, he murmured some words in Spanish she didn’t comprehend.

‘Pascual? Pascual, are you all right?’

Pulling the silk counterpane up to her chest, she moved towards him to lay her hand on the strong broad bank of his shoulder. He flinched as though struck.

‘No … I am not all right! It was crazy of me to come here to you. Next time I will try and show a little more restraint!’

Grabbing up his silk boxers from the end of the bed, he quickly pulled them on and then did the same with his trousers. Sliding his bare feet into his shoes, he reached for the rest of his clothing and then turned solemn-faced to survey her. His expression told her that he was in a dark haunted place where she could not reach him and it made Briana shudder.

‘I feel nothing for you … nothing!’ he declared savagely. ‘Do you know that? Your body may still arouse me, but in every other respect you leave me cold. You kept me from my own son and that I can never forgive. Tomorrow I will make arrangements for our return to Buenos Aires, and from then on Adán will have the life he was meant to. As for you … you will just have to learn to make the best of what you find when you get there. It is really no concern of mine whether you will be happy or not when we marry. I will provide every material comfort you could want … but as for companionship and friendship?’ His lips thinned disparagingly, ‘Maybe that is something you will just have to learn to live without … just as I have had to live without it these past five years. I will see you in the morning.’

As he left, strangely not slamming the door as she’d expected, but closing it as if the temper that had arisen like an electrical storm on a sunny day had suddenly dissipated as abruptly as it had appeared, Briana sank back down on the bed, feeling stunned and cold.

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