Tangled Hearts. Carole Mortimer
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what had happened! Oh, she could tell herself that they were both emotionally aroused, that she had been challenging his authority over Jason, she could even say that going down to talk to him in her nightclothes was an open invitation. What she couldn’t say was why she had allowed a man she hated and despised to kiss her in that intimate way!
Her cheeks still burnt with the shame of it every time she remembered his mouth on her, those sensitively long hands against her creamy white breasts, his mouth—oh God, his mouth—–! She couldn’t stand to think of the places his mouth had roamed or the way she had been powerless to stop him!
How could she face him again knowing he had been perfectly aware of that?
Jason had greeted the news of his father’s arrival the previous night with wary hostility, only picking at the breakfast Sarah had prepared for him, despite saying he was ravenous minutes earlier.
As she cleared away in the kitchen she could see Jason and her father out on the beach now, engaging in a pebble-skimming contest, already seeming to know they would very shortly be saying goodbye. For her father’s sake as well as Jason’s she wished it didn’t have to be so.
Everyone claimed that retirement was what you worked towards all your life, to the days when you didn’t have to be a slave to your job any longer; they forgot to mention that without the job to go to there was no reason to get up in the mornings, no reason to put on a shirt and tie and make sure your appearance was neat and tidy, neither did they mention how old and useless you suddenly felt.
Her father had always been a busy and active man, until his retirement from the library, and for the last year Sarah had watched him as he became aware of all the things he no longer had without his job to go to. But Jason’s arrival had changed all that, he had seemed to have a purpose in life again. These two needed each other; she only wished Garrett could be made to see that too.
God, how she cursed what had happened between them last night! Without it she would have been able to meet Garrett on equal terms; now she felt that every time he looked at her he wouldn’t see the capable schoolteacher fighting for the happiness of two people she loved very much, but the wanton he had held in his arms the previous night.
‘Damn, damn, damn!’ She slammed the cupboard door shut after putting away the breakfast things.
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