Annie gasped. Annie felt the warm colour enter her cheeks at his deliberately provocative tone. Every inch of her was tensed as if for a fight. From the fiery lights in that thick chestnut-coloured hair, and the tension in her body, to the bareness of her toes now curled into the carpet as if ready to spring into action if necessary.
She really was very beautiful. Even now Luc felt a stirring, a hardening, of his thighs as he recalled their time together earlier today, of the way she had been prepared to fight him then too.
Breasts that were full and pouting, and obviously unconfined beneath that fitted T-shirt, the tips becoming engorged with arousal even as Luc looked at them. Annie resisted the urge to cross her arms over that betraying hardening of her nipples. What was it about this man in particular that made her respond this way? She shook her head. One or both of us is sure to one day meet someone we can love, and then we would have to go through the messy process of a divorce.
Yes, of course she had! And because Tilly liked and respected Oscar, and already loved his three young daughters to distraction, she had accepted his marriage proposal. Only to then meet Victor, the man she had fallen instantly in love with, four years and three daughters of her own later. Strangely, Annie had never admitted that before, even to herself. She was only doing so now because she had no intention of putting Oliver through that same heartbreak! Everything about this man was unnerving, Annie acknowledged frustratedly.
From the cold chill of his ruthlessness, to the way that just looking at him made her heart beat faster and her breath catch in her throat! The fact that, in spite of everything, she was still physically attracted to Luc was no basis for a marriage between them either, she told herself firmly. In an effort to instil his determination into his more rebellious daughters, he had dragged out an ancient family manuscript outlining the code of honour by which the Balfours had once lived.
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Start Here. Let's keep in touch! Your Email. Sign Up. Look Inside. Miniseries: The Balfour Brides Book 0. Lips that minutes ago had been wrapped around—. Except there was nothing in the least funny about this situation. Just as the way she had touched him, caressed him, had been purely instinctive.
Annie had no other experience on which to draw except that time with him more than four years ago. To say that she was stunned by her response to him was an understatement! Luc frowned fiercely.
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