‘I got very little sleep last night, cara.”
That had her frowning.
‘Whose fault is that?”
‘Yours ”
She gasped out her outrage at that.
‘I didn’t seduce you last night.”
‘Did you not?” His gaze traveled over her like seeking hands.
‘Your very presence in the same space is a seduction to my senses. Surely you know this.”
‘lt’s not my fault you didn’t get any sleep,” she maintained stubbornly, not sure how she felt about hi s admission .
‘lt is. Therefore you must also accept the results. I am out of patience. I wish to refresh myself to relax in my home. I will not stand beside this car arguing with you. Come into the house now Elisa or I will carry you there but be assured you are coming.”
His words elicited not the least amount of surprise but they did make her angry.
‘You’re being a bully.”
‘I am being practical. Are you coming?”
She didn’t want to know how she would react to his touch should he carry out his threat so she undid her seat belt with a jerky movement.
‘you should have six younger siblings, the way you like to boss people around.”
His bark of laughter was short. ‘My parents wanted more but Mamma died before that goal was achieved.”
‘Your father never remarried.”
‘No’.
She climbed out of the car.
‘He must have loved your mother very much.”
‘He says so ” She cast a glance at Salvatore.
‘you don’t believe him?”
‘1 do not disbelieve him.”
‘But you can’t comprehend that kind of love?” she guessed.
He shrugged. ‘Not really, no.”
Which as good as told her in no uncertain terms that what he felt for her was nothing like the emotion his father had had for his mother.
‘I wish I couldn’t,” she muttered to herself as she followed him insi de .
He stopped in the cavernous hall and looked back at her.
‘What did you say?”
‘Nothing.” As if she was admitting it to him. That was not happening. She looked around in silence .