Breaking/Making Up: Something Borrowed\Vendetta (21 page)

‘Like you were, you mean,’ he said drily, smiling at her rueful acknowledgement. ‘It may not seem like it, but I do have
some
sense of honour, you know. I wasn’t going to make love to you until you asked, and I wasn’t going to ask you to marry me until you’d given Marvel his marching orders.’

‘Marry!’ He looked amused by her shock, and she recovered quickly. ‘I thought you wanted me to be your sex-slave,’ she pouted huskily.

‘That, too, of course,’ he said, lambent flecks of gold sparkling wickedly in his eye at her sensual boldness.

He rolled over on top of her. ‘And speaking of slavery... I had to be rescued from a very embarrassing state of captivity myself this morning. Handcuffed to my own bed! I had to drag it over to the door and spend fifteen minutes yelling down the stairwell before Frank heard and came up and jemmied the cuffs open for me. He’ll never let me hear the end of it!’

‘You should be more careful who you go to bed with,’ said Vivian demurely.

His head lowered as his knee brushed between her legs. ‘I will be. Very careful,’ he murmured against her mouth.

‘In future I’ll only be going to bed with my fire-cracker wife.’

As she slid her arms around his satiny-hard waist and blossomed eagerly for his love, Vivian thought it sounded like a just fate for a retired pirate...

ISBN : 978-1-4592-6927-9

BREAKING/MAKING UP

First North American Publication 1997.

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