‘Come with me.’
‘No, you go on.’ She gave him a vague smile, having eyes only for Logan.
‘Oh, but—’
‘For God’s sake go, Donald,’ Logan snapped viciously. ‘You aren’t wanted here.’
‘I say, Logan—’
‘It’s all right, Donald,’ Callie soothed his hurt feelings. ‘I’ll join you in a minute.’
‘Well—all right,’ he gave in reluctantly. ‘You understand? My mother—’
‘Will you get the hell out of here, Donald!’ Logan’s expression was threatening.
Donald hastily left the heated room, closing the door behind him.
Callie gave Logan an angry look. ‘That wasn’t kind.’
‘Neither is this game we’re playing.’
‘Game?’ she blinked.
He shrugged. ‘Well, it started out that way, it’s more serious than that now.’
Callie moved away from the spell he was weaving about her, his magnetism seeming to draw her back again. ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about.’
He swung her round, retaining a hold on her upper arms so that she couldn’t move away. ‘No matter what the reasons for our first meeting, our
engagement, we want each other now. Don’t deny it, Callie,’ he said as she went to speak. ‘That you’re using Donald, and I’m using Audrey, to shield that fact, can’t change the truth.’
Her heart was beating so fast she thought it would deafen her, her breathing so shallow it seemed she hardly breathed at all.
‘Did you sleep after I left you the other night?’ he asked huskily.
The colour in her cheeks answered for her. She had suffered an agony of longing after he had left her, a need for him that he had meant to inflict.
‘Your eyes tell me you didn’t,’ he smiled. ‘And neither did I.’
She couldn’t let him seduce her with these words, had to remember the way he had used her, deliberately made her fall in love with him. She also had to remember what he and his family thought of herself and Jeff.
‘Does this mean you want the affair to start now?’ she taunted. ‘That you can’t wait until after I marry Donald?’
His fingers bit into her arm. ‘You aren’t going to marry Donald.’
‘Aren’t I?’ she challenged.
‘No,’ he ground out.
‘Oh, but I am.’ She wriggled out of his grasp. ‘It’s comforting to know you want me, Logan,’ she mocked him. ‘But you really are mistaken about me—I don’t want you. Oh, no doubt you would be a satisfying lover, but I’m sure you wouldn’t want to become my lover just because you remind me of Jeff?’
His expression was thunderous. ‘You’ll taunt me with him once too often!’
‘And you’ve already played this scene once too often!’ Her eyes flashed deeply brown. ‘You’ve lost, why can’t you accept that?’
‘For God’s sake forget the damned shares for a minute! I’m talking about you and me now,’ he shook her.
‘The only you and I there ever was is dead,’ she told him dully.