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took his pack from the saddlebag and brought it back to where she
was lying, opening it and taking out some salve and a pad of lint.
Then he knelt beside her again, cleaning the scrape with spirit before
applying the salve. Alexandra flinched only once, when the spirit
stung her flesh, but then lay obediently while he applied the salve and
fastened the pad of lint in position with strips of plaster. Then he drew
her shirt back into position and fastened the buttons.
Alexandra let him do as he willed. She felt totally incapable of any
sensible speech, and there was an awful sense of inadequacy sinking
her stomach. What must he be thinking of her? she thought
dispiritedly. And what of this would he tell her father when Professor
Tempest and his assistant returned to Paradiablo? Declan sat on the
sleeping bag beside her, putting the tube of salve, the spirit and the
roll of plaster back into his pack. Then he tossed the leather satchel
aside and looked down at her.
'Does that feel better?' he asked.
Alexandra nodded, pushing herself up. 'Yes, thank you.' She pressed
her lips together for a moment. 'I I suppose I ought to apologise
now.'
His mouth twisted. 'That's not necessary.'
'Isn't it?' She looked sideways at him. 'Will you tell my father?'
He sighed, running a hand over the hair at the back of his neck. 'No.'
She couldn't leave it. 'I thought you would.'
'Why?' He sounded as though she was beginning to annoy him again.
'I I just thought as you find me so so infuriating.'
'Did I say that?'
'You didn't have to say anything.' She looked down at her hands. 'You
can even you can even take take my clothes off without it
meaning anything to you!'
'Stop talking such bloody drivel!' he snapped angrily. 'What would
you have had me do? You'd have been scared out of your wits if I'd so
much as touched you!'
'I wouldn't!' She was indignant.
'Look, Alexandra, I don't know if this is some sort of game you play
at that school of yours, but I'm warning you I'm no schoolboy, and
much more of this and you'll land yourself in deep trouble.' He was
glaring furiously at her as he spoke but something in her expression
tempered his anger. 'Oh, Alexandra, you're a beautiful girl. Okay, I
know it. In a couple of years your father will have every male in the
district beating a path to your door to contend with, but right now--'
'Right now?'
He stared into her eyes. 'Right now right now--' He gave a grimace
of self-disgust. 'Oh, God, Alexandra, I'm only human!'
He captured one of her hands and raised it to his mouth, pressing his
lips to the palm with urgent insistence. She allowed her fingers to
move against his cheek, and he drew them down on to his chest. His
hand cupped her throat, his thumb tipping back her head. He lowered
his mouth to her cheek and she felt a ripple of anticipation slide up her
spine. Then his mouth moved across her soft skin until it covered
hers, and all previous sexual encounters were as nothing compared to
the tumult he aroused in her. His mouth hardened as he felt her
response, his lips forcing hers apart as he bore her back against the
sleeping bag, the weight of his body both a pleasure and a pain.
He kissed her many times, long, urgent kisses that weakened her
resistance, destroyed any defence she might try to raise against him.
Declan was no inexperienced teenager, he was a man, a man
moreover committed to showing her exactly how dangerous loveplay
could be. His mouth was hardand passionate, his caresses sent her
senses spinning, and the evidence of his desire in the hard strength of
his thighs was a potent stimulant.
Lethargy was creeping over her. They were so beautifully isolated
here, they might have been in a world of their own. The only sounds
were those of the birds and the insects, and occasionally the distant
grunt of a forest animal. These forests had been here for a hundred
million years, unmarked by the glaciers which had destroyed the
northern hemisphere, and no doubt they would be here long after the
world as she knew it had passed away. It was like a time out of mind,
without past or future...
Her body yielded beneath his, inviting his possession, but when his
fingers touched the button at the waistband of her trousers she
couldn't go through with it. With a little cry, she pushed his hand
away, and he rolled on to his back to cover his forehead with his arms.
His eyes were closed and Alexandra clenched her fists impotently. It
was no good. He was right, she was inexperienced, and while some
yearning part of her system longed for his possession, that foolish,
childish inhibition thrust itself between them.
She wanted desperately to tell him how she felt, to explain that she
was not the prude he must be thinking her, but when she put out a
tentative hand and touched his firm midriff he jack-knifed into a
sitting position, pushing her hand away. He hunched his shoulders,
his legs drawn up, in a position of complete exhaustion. Then, after a
minute, he straightened and said: 'Get up. We're leaving.*
Alexandra opened her mouth to speak and then closed it again. What
was the use? But she had to try. 'I'm I'm sorry,' she ventured.
He looked at her with cold mockery as he got to his feet. Tm not:
She raised dull eyes to his. 'Why not?'
'I never intended to seduce you, little girl!' he retorted, and his smile
was not pleasant. 'If I had, you wouldn't have been able to stop me!'
'But but--' She scrambled to her feet. 'You you were well, you
tried to--'
He turned away. 'I just wanted to see how far that veneer of
experience would take you,' he replied scornfully.
'I I see.' Alexandra felt totally humiliated. 'I I think you're
despicable!'
He gave her a resigned stare. 'Put on your hat and get on your horse,
and next time you want to play games, find someone of your own
weight!'
The journey back to Paradiablo was conducted almost completely in
silence. Alexandra was too absorbed with her own thoughts to speak
and Declan seemed wholly remote. They rode back through the
shallower slopes of the valley, seldom leaving the shade of the trees
until the sun began to slide down the sky. Then they mounted the
track out of the valley, crossed the ridge and began the descent down
to the ravine where the paths forked.
It was almost dark when they reached the house, circling it to reach
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