Australia: In Bed with a Bachelor. Emma Darcy
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meant she was not part of his vengeance plot.
She was an innocent connection to the man whom he saw as the prime cause of the darkest time of his life. The words he’d used describing bankruptcy came back to her—lives crumbling, futures shattered, depression so dark there is no light. The emotional intensity that had surprised her in that forceful little speech had obviously erupted from personal experience.
Looking back, she began to make much more sense of how Jake had run their affair, always keeping the end in sight, ensuring their involvement was limited, not escalating into something too serious. He’d known it was ill-fated from the start, but he’d found her as irresistible as she’d found him and he’d taken the small window of opportunity for them to enjoy each other before circumstances made it impossible.
It’s been good. Thank you.
He hadn’t been using her.
They’d both chosen to give themselves the pleasure of mutual desire and it had been good. The more Laura reasoned it out, the more she believed the journey they’d taken together was completely separate from the road Jake had been travelling to put her father out of business.
She remembered the intensity of his love-making on Saturday night, the long passionate kiss before they left the hotel room, the flat darkness—no…light—of his eyes as he touched her cheek in the taxi.
Maybe he hadn’t wanted to say goodbye.
Maybe he loved her as deeply as she loved him.
Maybe he just couldn’t see a future for them, given what he was about to do.
That might be true…or it might not.
It depended on how much he felt for her.
She had to see him, talk to him, find out the truth.
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