Her Hot Revenge

erful release still violently racked her slender frame. Alex had disentangled, detached and distanced himself

htly tanned skin but knowing from experience that her touch would be rebuffed. His words, the ones that were always wrenched from h

a son,

ng more than a biological imperative. After eighteen months of the same, Tessy had finally realized that it would never change.

m. She sat up, naked, her body still trembling and drew her knees to her chest. She embraced her legs, pressed her cheek to her knees and watched as his breathing steadied, his own shaking was subsiding slightly. He lay spread-eagled, also mag

words and they spilled from her

a divorc

oded and his upper lip curled mockingly. "But I thought you loved me, Tessy," he taunted with exquisite cruelty and Tessy lowered her eyelids, try

anaged, hoping the l

ke the purr of a cat. "What happene

ange," she

ow, resting his head on his hand. He looked so much like a Roman gladiator

sky purr of agreement but she wasn't fooled by his relaxed po

till the same woman I married. The one who claimed to love me so much, she couldn'

, without moving, without s

nly thing I've ever wanted from this pathetic excuse for a

a divorce," she tried for

no easy way out of this marriage. Not until I got what I wanted from you and that day looks to be a lon

she buried her face in her knees a

and took a few seconds to compose herself, swiping the hot tears from her face with the backs of both hands before dragging on a gauzy peignoir and heading toward the kitch

orange juice. His short black hair was damp and standing up in tufts where he had carelessly towel-dried it after his shower and he wore n

.. Alex never touched her outside of the bedroom. In the eighteen months they had been married, this was the first time that she could recall him touching her

rce, Tessy... ever," he told her

rom divorcing you,"

hey can get." Somehow she hadn't expected that. She should have but she hadn't. Alex had loaned her cousin, Lisa, the start-up capital for her bookshop. Tessy didn't know what the specifics of that loan were but she had always assumed

th nothing but bravado. "Lisa ha

tever it takes to get

can help her..." s

e start-up capital for her bookshop but he made his contempt of the idea more than obvious to e

you're an honest businessman, you wouldn't destroy a small business just

ink I care what people think of me? Do you think I care what you th

made a scoffing sound in the back of his throa

ted this marriage, remember? You begged for it... So if you want a divorce right now, it'll com