Sacrifice by Lora Leigh Read Free Book Online

whispered.
“Like Sax…”
    She couldn’t deny him, not any
longer. She was too hungry, too wild for his touch. She had thought she could
hold herself aloof. Thought she could deny her need and his lusts, but she knew
now it wasn’t going to happen. This wasn’t just a need. It was a craving, an
addiction.
    He stared down at her, his chest
rising and falling as quickly as hers, his face flushed with his arousal, with
his lusts. She could see the battle waging in his eyes, the desperate need for
anything she would offer, the knowledge it would never be enough.
    “It’s all I have, Jared,” she
whispered painfully. “All I can offer.” But it wasn’t. Not really. She had the
heart she was terrified he already held.
    His head lowered, his forehead meeting
hers as he stared into her eyes.
    “Such a pretty little rear you
have,” he whispered, his voice suggestive, dark with lust. “Do you know how
many nights I’ve dreamed of you, Kimberly? How often I’ve lain awake hungry for
you?”
    She licked her lips, weakening
desire washing through her body.
    “I’m here,” she whispered.
    His hand rose to her face, his
fingers smoothing over her cheek with a touch as soft as a whisper.
    “Here you are,” he agreed. “And yet
you’re further away than you ever were.”
    Kimberly watched in confusion as he
loosened her wrists and forced himself from her. And he did force himself. She
could see it in every line of his body, in the tight, angry grimace of his
mouth.
    “What do you mean?” She shook her
head, pulling the edges of her shirt together as he rose from the bed and stood
staring at her from beside it.
    It broke her heart, needing him as
she did and knowing she could never have him and keep the vow she had made to
herself and to her mother. A vow that was weighing down her soul more and more
by the day.
    He shook his head shortly. “I have
to get the hell out of here before I take something you don’t want to give. And
that would only hurt both of us.”
    Before she could speak, he stalked
through the connecting doorway, closing the door firmly between them.
    “But I do want to give it to you,
Jared,” she whispered bleakly. “More than you know. More than you will ever
know.”

Chapter Six
     
    He should have stayed the fuck away
from her, just as he had intended. He shouldn’t have gone into her room and he
sure as hell shouldn’t have touched her. But he had. Helpless against the need
to taste her, to touch her. She was like a narcotic to his senses, wrapping
around him, a siren’s call of lust and heat that he was helpless to deny. He
craved her.
    Jared couldn’t remember a time in his life when need had
struck him so hard, so imperatively. No other woman had ever affected him this
way; no other had ever tested the control he had fought to preserve over the
years.
    A good woman is worth any
sacrifice, son. The memory of his father’s words washed over him as he
stared into the darkened forest from the back porch. She’ll soothe your soul
even as she makes you burn inside and out. That kind of woman is worth dying
for, but even more, she’s worth living for.
    He knew his parents hadn’t had an
easy time of it together. Their relationship had been hampered by her parents,
and by Victor Raddington’s extreme sexuality.
    Jared still remembered coming home
that first time when the knowledge hit him. He had been in college, nearly a
grown man and had returned home unexpectedly. He had walked in on something
that even now, simply because it was his parents, he wished he never had walked
in on.
    He hunched his shoulders against
the uncomfortable memory. But the thought of it was enough that it brought
Kimberly to mind. How erotic it would be, holding her, watching as another man
touched her, fulfilling all her most sensual fantasies.
    She was a highly sexual creature.
He had seen that at The Club, and the information he had learned later had only
reinforced that impression.
    Her requests when it