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.’‘Oh yes?’ Once again she was wary.‘Yes,’ he sighed.‘I can’t stand it any more, Julie.I’m going quietly insane.I want you, and I have to have you.’ He looked at her with tortured eyes, a pulse beating erratically in his hard cheek.‘Can you understand that?’Yes, she could understand that.And hope began to fill her heart as she saw the naked desire in his eyes.Maybe there was hope for them after all, maybe if she could talk to him, explain about the past, tell him about—He drew in a ragged breath.‘So I’ve come here tonight willing to offer you what you always wanted.’Julie frowned.‘What I—always wanted?’ she voiced uncertainly.‘Yes,’ he hissed.‘You always wanted an affair.Our one night together showed me one thing, Julie—we’re still explosive in bed together.So, you always wanted an affair- well, now I do too.I want an affair with you, Julie.’CHAPTER 7‘—What did you say?’ Julie choked disbelievingly ‘I want you, Julie.I want an affair with you.’She searched his granite-like features, the hard grey eyes, the flaring nostrils, and set compressed mouth, the firm thrust of his jaw, the very stance of his body, and knew that, he meant this horror.Zack meant it, he wanted an affair with her!‘No!’ she rasped.‘No?’ he choked.‘You heard me,’ she flashed.‘Just what do you think I am—’‘I know what you are, Julie,’ he groaned.‘You’re beautiful, desirable, and I badly need to make love to you again.I fought it—God, how I fought it!’ His hands clenched and unclenched at his sides.‘After our anniversary, after I saw you again, I began to want you.I tried to put you from my mind, but no matter what I did, where I went, who I was with, I was always imagining it was you.’‘Teresa—’‘Guessed,’ he sighed.‘And when I cried out your name instead of hers one night…! She quite righty told me to get out until I have you out of my system.’‘I’m sorry if you feel I’ve ruined things be tween you and Teresa,’ Julie told him stiffly.‘But that’s no reason to come here and insult me.’‘Insult you?’ he repeated harshly.‘Admitting how badly I want to make love to you is insulting you?’‘Yes!’ she glared at him.‘I’m a person, not some commodity you can buy simply because you want it!’‘Buy?’ he repeated softly.‘What price do you put on yourself, Julie?’A red haze passed in front of her eyes, not of weakness this time but of burning anger.‘I don’t have a price,’ she snapped.‘Have you forgotten that you’ve already had me, free, gratis, for nothing?’Zack was grey beneath his tan.‘It was that single night with you that showed me I have a long way to go to get you out of my system.I thought that one night would be enough, that the hunger that had been eating me up for days would finally go away.Instead it’s increased, made it impossible for me to think of anything else.’‘And you’ve decided an affair is the answer to this hunger,’ she said dully.‘Yes,’ he rasped harshly.‘And just how long would you expect the— affair to last? A week, a month, a year?’ Her voice cracked with anger.‘As long as it takes!’ he snapped.‘How the hell do I know?’‘And what do I get out of it?’”‘Me.’Her eyes widened incredulously.‘You?’‘Yes, me,’ his mouth twisted.‘You can’t have forgotten that you enjoyed that night together as much as I did.’Colour blazed in her cheeks.‘I should have known you would throw that in my face—’‘I’m not throwing it in your face,’ Zack sighed, running a weary hand over his eyes.‘We were always good together physically.I don’t think either of us would ever deny that.’‘Maybe not.But I’ve tried living with you, Zack, and I don’t like it.’‘You wouldn’t be living with me.We would continue to live separately.’‘And you would just pop over here every time you feel like making love to me,’ she derided.‘No,’ he flushed.‘Because if I did that I would be living here.We could meet whenever it’s mutually convenient.’‘Whenever you can get away from Teresa?’‘Teresa?’ he frowned.‘I always told you’‘Surely now that you’ve decided an affair with me is the answer you can go ahead with your plans to marry Teresa?’ she scorned, ‘I don’t think that would be a very good idea,’ he said distantly.‘For God’s sake, Julie, stop making this difficult for me!’‘For you?’ she exclaimed disbelievingly, ‘You come here under the pretense of enquiring after my health, and end up offering me an affair, and I’m supposed to make things easy for you!’Zack looked angry too now.‘I’m sure you didn’t have this difficulty in arranging your affairs with Clarke and Carter.’‘I didn’t have an affair with Alec!’ Her voice was shrill.‘That one time you found me in his arms I was crying because I’d had an argument with you.Maybe I should have had an affair with him, maybe then I wouldn’t have given a damn about your accusations.At least they would have been true!’‘And Carter?’She stiffened.‘I don’t intend telling you anything about Steve and myself.Alec you have a right to an explanation about—although God knows I’ve made it often enough! Steve came after our separation, so he’s none of your business.I will say this, though, there was never any affair arranged between us.In case you didn’t know it, those sort of things are supposed to happen spontaneously
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