Passionate Nights. Penny Jordan

      For her … For a moment Kelly felt close to tears. There was so much more about her that he still didn’t know. So much that she still had to tell him—especially … But now, when he was on the point of leaving, wasn’t the time to start explaining about Julian and Beth.

      ‘I know you’re only being like this because you’re worried about how much I’m going to charge you for the teaset,’ she told him teasingly and a little chokily.

      ‘Aha … so you’ve seen through my dastardly plot, then,’ Brough responded in the same vein.

      Suddenly anxious, she clung to him and whispered, ‘Oh, Brough, it’s all so new, so unexpected. I don’t …’

      ‘It’s perfect … you’re perfect,’ Brough assured her as he tightened his arms around her and cradled her head against his shoulder. ‘We are going to be perfect … together … Right now, there’s nothing I want more than to stay here with you.’

      He looked betrayingly towards the inner doorway to the flat and, guessing what he was thinking, Kelly quickly reassured him. ‘I know and I understand. You’ve got your responsibilities, and anyway, perhaps … Everything’s happened so quickly, so …’

      ‘I’ll call you the moment I get back from London,’ Brough promised her huskily.

      ‘There’s so much I haven’t told you,’ Kelly protested as he started to release her.

      ‘Such as?’ Brough grinned. ‘I’ve already discovered for myself all that I need to know, and what I have discovered, what I do know … I love …’

      ‘Oh, Brough …’

      It was impossible not to throw herself back into his arms and share another passionate kiss with him, and then he was gone, leaving her to touch her fingertips to a mouth that still tingled from the passion of his kiss and to acknowledge with a small, cold shiver that he was wrong, that there were things that he still had to learn.

      Would it change what he thought, what he felt, when he learned of her deceit, or would he understand and accept that her deliberate pursuit of Julian had been prompted by loyalty to Beth?