Chapter 40

Wife? In spite of everything, the trouble she'd put him to, to find her, the fact she'd whored herself in his bed for almost four days, that humiliating marriage, he fought the urge to laugh out loud. In five years, he'd never had a better adversary. The fact she was a woman only added to the piquancy.

Incredibly, just when he didn't want it to, the treacherous thought flashed back through his mind like a lightning bolt. He'd never had a better lover either.

What was the point in denying it? Or that his body didn't crave her the way a drunk did whiskey? So it was an agony to stand here. Especially when she stood so close the same breeze which didn't quite cool his skin, ruffled her hair beneath his nose.

Read her like a book?If he could he'd know it was time to stop playing games with her.