The Bedroom Barter
“Grateful, but casual. Drawing a line under the whole affair.No regrets, she thought, swallowing past a sudden tightness in her throat, and no recriminations—no matter how difficult that might be.Because, although she might be able to keep her pride intact, she could not make any similar guarantees about her heart.She groaned inwardly. Oh, God, she thought wretchedly, what am I doing to myself?First Ramon—and now this—this disaster.Did she never learn? she demanded of herself with savage intensi...ty. Was she really planning to be a loser all her life, sighing for a whole series of Mr Wrongs?And wasn't she making far too much of it all anyway? After all, as Ash had said himself, nothing had really happened. He'd made his play, been turned down, and shrugged it off.Which indicated fairly bruisingly the relative unimportance of the encounter in his scheme of things, she thought unhappily. As far as he was concerned the point of no return had by no means been reached. Whereas as soon as his mouth had touched hers she'd gone up in flames—ready to give him anything he asked for.And it was small consolation to tell herself that, in fact, she'd been the first one to draw back.MoreLess
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