the building and into the street. Striding so fast that she had to run to keep up with him.
‘I can’t just leave …’ But her protest carried no real conviction.
‘You just did.’
‘Where are we going?’ She was overwhelmed by all she felt for him—scared, joyous and hungry all at the same time.
And he stopped suddenly and turned to her, his hands framing her face with heart-stopping tenderness. ‘Does it matter?’
And she replied simply and seriously, ‘No.’
They went to his flat in a warehouse development overlooking the Thames. As he sat beside her in the shadowed intimacy of the taxi Ross took her hand and held it. There was no real pressure in the clasp of his fingers, but his touch seemed to penetrate to her bones, and she began to tremble inside.
Yet as they rode in the lift to the upper floor Jenna found her first euphoria evaporating, leaving her feeling shy and vulnerable. She cast a swift, sideways glance at Ross, but there was nothing to be read from his expression. Suddenly he seemed to be the cool, enigmatic stranger of her teens again, and she was assailed by a pang of real doubt.
What am I doing? she thought. Why am I here?
Well, she knew the answer to that, of course. She might be inexperienced, but she wasn’t naïve. And she had gone with him of her own free will, so she could hardly protest if he expected her to keep the promise that her capitulation implied, she thought, swallowing.
But her first glimpse inside the flat itself drove everything else from her mind. Eyes widening, she stared round at the high vaulted ceilings and enormous windows which provided untrammelled views of the river from the main living area. The wooden floors gleamed with the patina of gold, and the pale walls provided a neutral background for furnishings and drapes in warm earth colours.
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