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Renegade Angel. Kendra Castle Leigh
Читать онлайн.Название Renegade Angel
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isbn 9781408928837
Автор произведения Kendra Castle Leigh
Жанр Современные любовные романы
Издательство HarperCollins
“I didn’t do that, did I?” she blurted out, and without thinking she reached out to brush her hand against his. It was her greatest fear, hurting people. Especially when they had done nothing to warrant it. It seemed she hurt anyone she got too close to; God knew her own mother had gotten scars from her when she was too young to know better, only one reason why the woman wanted next to nothing to do with her only child. And a big reason, despite the widely recognized fact that Dina Riddick had never wanted and still did not want responsibility for anyone other than herself, that Ember had let it go. Let her go.
But every once in a while, that deep and denied need for a bit of human contact got the better of Ember’s com mon sense. She felt it only for a moment when their hands touched, that hot and tingling rush when their skin connected, before Raum jerked his hand away with a furious glare. Ember let her own hand linger in midair for a moment, staring at it as it continued to tingle with tiny aftershocks.
“No,” Raum growled. “You didn’t do this. Now, sit still. We have a ways to go yet, and you don’t need to be crawling all over the car. You already know I’m not going to hurt you.”
Ember pulled her hand back and looked away, angry and embarrassed all at the same time. She knew what he’d meant: crawling all over ME, he might as well have said. But she knew he’d felt it, too. She just didn’t know why he found it so repulsive, when to her it held the promise of something like Heaven.
Ember ran a hand through the unruly tangles of her hair, winced as she pulled through innumerable snags. Then she sighed and again looked over at her big, grim-faced chauffeur. Her reaction to him was no less powerful than it had been last night, but this time it was tempered with annoyance. It didn’t stop her from wanting to crawl into his lap, but it did allow her to hang on to her wits this time. Or maybe her body was adjusting to a new, erotically charged baseline.
“Raum, if that really is your name,” she said, and saw by the slight turn of his head that he was listening. “I really don’t feel like I should have to ask, but what the hell is going on?”
He paused. And at least this time, when he answered her, he didn’t sound as if he wanted to fight. It was progress, of a sort.
“I’ve been trying to figure out a way to explain this that doesn’t end with you throwing yourself out of the car,” he said. “So I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you just ask me the things you want to know? And start small.”
She nodded, inadvertently amused. He really did seem to be a man of few words. But as long as he was answering, she could work with it. “Okay,” she said. “Agreed.”
“Good.” He took a deep breath, and Ember realized, suddenly, that Raum was as knotted up as she was. Somehow, knowing that made it easier to start.
“What are you?” she asked.
He considered this for a moment. “Start somewhere else.”
Ember blew out an irritated breath. “Okay, fine. What am I? I’m assuming you’re not unaware of the fact that I was growling and snarling right along with everyone else last night.”
“At least you have a sense of humor about it,” he said. When she just glared at him, waiting for a response, he relented.
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