Tycoon's One-Night Revenge
“Van circled the house with a restless frustration. He should have rejoiced in the aftermath and the lack of damage to what could soon be his property, but the storm was still building to a thunderhead in his body.
He’d sent Susannah to bed, but a perverse part of him hoped she’d thumbed her nose at that edict. That he’d walk inside and find her curled up on the sofa, the firelight painting golden shadows over her all-natural body. If that happened, then damn the trust she’d placed in him.He pau...sed beneath the window of the spare bedroom, dark, silent. Perhaps she had stayed up. His heartbeat quickened as he moved on, his steps surer and growing with purpose.From the east side of the house he heard the wrenching crack of a limb breaking from a tree. The shuddering impact as it struck. But it was her scream, loud enough to split the night and his inflamed body asunder, that sent him careening into the house…only to find the spare bedroom empty. All of downstairs rooms were empty.Wild with dread, he tackled the stairs three at a time, the pull of fear more powerful than the pull of pain in his tight hamstrings.MoreLess
He’d sent Susannah to bed, but a perverse part of him hoped she’d thumbed her nose at that edict. That he’d walk inside and find her curled up on the sofa, the firelight painting golden shadows over her all-natural body. If that happened, then damn the trust she’d placed in him.He pau...sed beneath the window of the spare bedroom, dark, silent. Perhaps she had stayed up. His heartbeat quickened as he moved on, his steps surer and growing with purpose.From the east side of the house he heard the wrenching crack of a limb breaking from a tree. The shuddering impact as it struck. But it was her scream, loud enough to split the night and his inflamed body asunder, that sent him careening into the house…only to find the spare bedroom empty. All of downstairs rooms were empty.Wild with dread, he tackled the stairs three at a time, the pull of fear more powerful than the pull of pain in his tight hamstrings.MoreLess
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