Her Australian Hero
by Margaret Way
This was a detour worth taking . . .
For as long as she can remember, Meilin Wu has had her life mapped
out, and she's well down her chosen path--which had no warning signs about a
tall, golden Brit who would bowl her over the night before her arranged
marriage . . .
Drew Robinson has nearly finished his formal education and is ready to
face the world when he meets Meilin, an exquisite beauty with Chinese ancestry.
He doesn't mind she's ten years older, and the fact she knows Mandarin only
makes her that much more a perfect fit for his upcoming adventures in China. He
just has to get her to dump her fiancé and convince her that a trip in
China will only enhance her established design business.
Easy for a guy who's known for seeing sunshine wherever he goes.
Right?
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How about an excerpt? Sure!! Here you go:
“Let’s
concentrate on you finding you,” Rafe retaliated, his tone grating. “Can you
open your heart to anyone anymore? Or have you totally lost the key? I’m sick
of watching you dig yourself deeper and deeper into a black hole. You’re
desperate to keep me at arm’s length. It’s almost a form of torture. For God’s
sake, can’t you tell me why? You’ve carried a terrible burden of irrational
guilt. I know that better than anyone. But surely it’s about time you put it
down. Or do you feel compelled to wallow in it?”
Neither of them
could say later who acted first. Anger rushed at them with lightning speed.
Alex’s hand flew up to strike the look of high scorn on Rafe’s smouldering
face, just as Rafe moved to pull her to him, crushing the length of her body
against his. There was no question of pausing, of catching breath. Both of
them, always on the thin edge of control, lost it. Lost whatever it was that
had kept them in check.
Rafe’s mouth
came down over hers with an insatiable hunger. One hand came up to cup the
swell of her high breast, his thumb and forefinger working the already erect
nipple. It was a colossal assault on the senses. A button loosened under siege,
popped off her shirt. Immediately his hand slipped further inside her top while
she gasped out whimpers she couldn’t control at the sensual ecstasy he was
arousing in her. This was too devastating to be called lovemaking. It was a
desperately harsh and hurtful want. In another minute they would be down on the
thick grass, high on a sexual attraction so powerful the immediate world would
fall away in a brilliant blur. It was Rafe who came to first, keeping one hand
on her arm as she rocked unsteadily on her feet. His voice crackled like an
overloaded circuit. “You had that coming.”
She had to
believe it. Her blue shirt was curled up around her waist, most of the white
pearly buttons undone. With unsteady fingers she rebuttoned it, covering her
breasts. “I won’t, I don’t, I refuse to love you, Rafe.”
“Who said
anything about love,” he mocked, burning with a kind of sexual electricity held
powerfully in check. “If you won’t allow us to communicate with our souls, I
guess our bodies will have to do. I’ll settle for being your lover. Who cares
about a soul mate? She did, but she wasn’t going to show it. “You can say
goodbye to that idea.”
He burned her
with his eyes. “Until the next time,” he told her. “We’ll do it one step at a
time.”
“Should I start
keeping a diary? You’re incredibly arrogant, Rafe.” She bent forward slightly
as shock waves continued to run through her.
“I have to
reject that. I’ve been incredibly patient with you, Alex. Only now you’ve given
yourself away in one fell swoop. You don’t love me, but you’re mad for me to
make love to you. You needed that as much as I did.”
It was
impossible to reassemble herself. “Animal magnetism,” she said, struggling to
airbrush the moments of high emotion out of her mind. “That’s all it was.
Animal magnetism.”
“I’m cool with
that.” His tone was sardonic. “At least it got you flying into my arms.”
“And not much
chance of it happening again.”
He didn’t
appear impressed. “Words are toys, Alex. They’re only meant to be fun. Let’s go
back to the house. I’ll take the Long Walk. I know your father goes there
often. Unlike you.”
“And you. We
can never go back to what we were, Rafe.”
“Okay, we
can’t. What we do, is take a new direction. I want you, Alex. Let there be no
mistake about that.”
“When I’ve got
nothing to offer you?” She stared up at him with great intensity. Several
strands of hair from her braid hung loose, blue-black against her glimmering
skin. Her full mouth burned crimson.
“I’ll take what
I can get. No matter how hard you try, Alex, you’ll never succeed in locking me
out.”
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About the Author:
USA Today
bestselling author Margaret Way has written more than 130 books, many of them
International Bestsellers. She has been published in 114 countries and 34
languages. Her novels are set in her beloved Australia, where she was born and
lives to this day. Her stories always contain the beauty and rugged nature of
the rural and Outback Australia, as well as the rainforests and coral reefs of
Northern Queensland.
http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/author.aspx/31759
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