Emily's Seduction
“What the devil did she mean by that? “I think it is wrong?”
“Yes, you do. At least you think it is wrong to do with me…” She shrugged her bare, water-slicked shoulders. “I don’t know.”
Ah, here it was. The pain of being this close to someone else. He could lie to himself. He could lie to her. But she would always know. Coldness rippled through his belly, and in his mind he could see Nicolo nodding with that damnable sympathy. Anger burned through him.
A sudden urge to escape to his study and get half-seas over seized him. He stood, water and suds sloshing down.
She looked up at him. Her eyes accused him. “You did it to degrade me.”
Shock paralysed his brain and his mouth dropped open. “Degrade you?”
She nodded calmly. It was her calm that undid him the most.
He shook with anger. Not trusting himself to speak, he picked up a towel and briskly rubbed his body dry. Then he pulled on his banyan.
“Alex, you asked me. I told you. Why are you—?”
Women never knew when to let something drop.
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