Читать книгу Her Dearest Enemy - Elizabeth Lane - Страница 2
Оглавление“Before I agree to help you, I need to be sure there won’t be trouble.”
“You can’t be sure.” She strained against him, setting off heat waves where their bodies touched. Whatever was happening, Brandon could not bring himself to step away and let her go.
“You can’t be sure of…anything.” Her voice was breathy, her words tangled skeins of logic. “You can’t just bend life to your will, Brandon. Things happen, and sometimes you have to let them. You bet and you lose, you love and you get hurt, or you hurt others.”
“Since when did you become so wise, schoolmarm?” His lips brushed the soft hair at her temple as he spoke. “You don’t strike me as a lady who’s done a lot of living.”
Or a lot of loving, he thought. Lord, the lessons he would teach this woman if things were different between them!
