Trust in Tomorrow by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1985-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

HER pillow was very damp from all the tears she had cried after throwing herself down on the length of the bed. Lucas had dismissed her as if she were a child, and after making such beautiful love to her! She cried as much with the humiliation of that as with his rejection of her.

She had been so wrong about his coldness, Lucas could become lost in passion too, could lose all control, a deep fire in the dark warmth of his eyes. She knew that no matter how he rejected her now she could never go back to thinking of him as coldly remote, knew that beneath the façade was a man who could be controlled by passion, a man who was the way that he was simply because he wanted to hide that fierce and yet gentle passion that ruled him.

‘Chelsea…?’

She turned sharply at the sound of his voice, quickly wiping at her tear-stained cheeks, sitting up to look at him challengingly. ‘Yes?’ she prompted tightly.

There was a weariness to his mouth and eyes. ‘You forgot this.’ He put her négligé down on the bedroom chair, moving across the room to sit on the side of her bed, gently smoothing back her hair. ‘I’m sorry,’ he sighed.

She swallowed hard, feeling her own instantaneous desire return at his merest touch. ‘For starting it or stopping it?’ she queried huskily.

He shrugged broad shoulders. ‘Just sorry it happened.’

‘Why?’

Heat flared in his eyes before it was quickly dampened. ‘The reasons are too numerous to mention,’ he shook his head.

‘Try,’ she encouraged throatily, determined to make him understand that nothing stood between them but his own stubbornness not to let his emotions rule his body—and hers.

‘Your father sent you here for protection—’

‘He sent me here because he knew I’d be safe with you,’ she corrected.

‘It’s the same thing,’ Lucas rasped.

‘No,’ she shook her head. ‘Because I am safe with you.’

‘I almost made love to you!’

‘It was my decision,’ she insisted calmly. ‘You didn’t force me into it. Jace didn’t want you to protect me from emotion, just from the attention of the media.’

‘Your emotions are all confused at the moment, you don’t really know what you want,’ Lucas told her grimly.

‘I want you,’ she said softly.

His jaw became rigid with disapproval. ‘I’m too damned old for you.’

‘You’re perfect.’ She touched the hardness of one cheek with loving fingers.

‘You’re too young for me!’

She shrugged. ‘I’ll get older.’

‘Not soon enough for me!’ Lucas stood up forcefully, moving a safe distance away from her seduction. ‘No matter how much older you get there will always be fifteen years standing between us.’

Chelsea watched him with puzzled eyes. ‘So when I’m thirty you’ll be forty-five,’ she dismissed. ‘What difference does that make?’

‘There’s eleven more years to go before you reach thirty!’ he grated derisively.

‘Think of the fun we could have together in those years,’ she encouraged throatily.

‘You’re infatuated—’

‘I’m not,’ she calmly shook her head. ‘This is real for me, Lucas, no matter what you think. You could

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