Desire For Revenge. PENNY JORDAN
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her body tensing under their warmth, her senses relaying to her the knowledge that he was as affected as she was herself by that brief contact.
‘No questions. Tonight is special,’ she told him softly. ‘If there is any magic, it’s in the fact that tonight we’ve found one another. Let’s not spoil it by questioning why.’
She saw his eyes narrow faintly, and tensed herself, unwilling to question too deeply her desire to keep her image of him as a complete stranger. It was because she didn’t want to be disillusioned that she didn’t want to know more about him, she told herself defensively, but somewhere deep inside her part of her knew better. It was fear that urged the secrecy on her; fear that the more she knew about this man the more she would want to know.
Joss took her hand and led her towards the stairs, pausing there to demand rawly, ‘Are you sure this is what you want, Sarah?’
She liked that in him; that he was man enough to give her the chance to back out if she wished.
‘More than anything I’ve ever wanted in my entire life,’ she told him and it was no less than the truth.
The smile he gave her was whimsical, edged with faint self-mockery. ‘You might not believe this…but this is the first time anything like this has ever happened to me,’ he told her softly. ‘Just for the record, I don’t make a habit of making love to strange ladies, no matter how beautiful they might be.’
‘I’m glad that in my case you’re prepared to make an exception.’ Sarah said it demurely, but there was nothing demure about the way she looked at him, letting him lead her up the narrow flight of stairs.
Two doors opened off the small landing, and Joss turned the handle of the first of them, flicking a switch that snapped on a bedside lamp.
The room was furnished in soft greys and blues; the walls papered in a fabric that looked vaguely Sandersonish. A matching bedspread covered the bed, a soft blue-grey carpet underfoot.
Somehow, the room did not match the man; neither had the room downstairs Sarah thought reflectively. Intuitively she suspected that this was not his permanent home, and then she closed her mind to such thoughts because Joss was removing the satin coat that was part of his costume and coming towards her.
It struck her then vaguely that Ralph and Jane might be missing her, but she dismissed the knowledge. She was an adult, capable of making her own decisions in life. Perhaps after their discussion, Jane might even guess what she was doing. But was it purely because of David that she was here tonight with Joss? Sarah knew it was not; even without David she would still be here. Tonight was something she was embracing for herself, because intuitively she knew that not to do so was to deprive herself in a way she would regret for the rest of her life.
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