Crime Of Passion(34)

‘You deserved it—all that posturing about love being messy and complicating things. That was your pride talking.’

‘Si…’

‘Without your love, I had nothing.’ And he really meant it. ‘Maybe I can forgive you this once,’ she sniffed, not surrendering too easily and keeping her distance. ‘On the other hand, I could walk out…’

‘We are sixty thousand feet above the ground.’ As he made the reminder his striking features were slashed with helpless amusement. ‘Not that I would expect a small consideration like that to stop you!’

‘If you don’t stop laughing at me, you’re ’ She

was silenced as he jerked her back down on top of him and claimed her mouth hungrily again.

‘Oh, yes…’ she moaned several minutes later, the previous conversation having vanished from her mind. ‘Thank God the alligator didn’t get me,’ she murmured, with heartfelt gratitude that she had been spared for a future of such unsurpassed ecstasy.

‘Clearly he wasn’t half as sneaky and conniving as Rafael drawled, with rich self-satisfaction.