Free Dark Demands 03: Totally His by Nell Henderson Page B

is a suburb cook,” he praised.  “So eat up.”
    Gina took a forkful and had to agree – this was even better than the food she’d eaten at Mama Bellini’s yesterday. 
    Matthew seemed much better, b eing here suited him, she thought.  He talked quite openly about his family and the time he’d spent here while he was growing up.  He laughed and joked and appeared to have lost his dark side – well for the time being anyway.  Neither did he refer to t he spat they’d had on the plane.  In fact he was just so normal, so reasonable and charming.  So what was going on?  Was it possible that he’d decided to accept what she wanted – for him to leave her alone ?  D id he harbour no resentment at all about what she’d said on the plane, Gina wondered?   It wasn’t like him to be so agreeable – so accepting of her terms.  The Matthew she had come to know was controlling, assertive and this pleasant, easy going man wasn’t him.
    “Is something wrong,” he asked having watch ed her frown and pick at the food on her plate for several minutes now .
    “No, not really – it’s just that I’m confused.  Y ou’ve changed - s ince we arrived here you’re , well, different.”
    “In what way am I different, Gi na?   He asked with another charming smile lighting his handsome face .  Dark brown eyes smooth as velvet bore into hers seeking an explanation .
    He wasn ’t chasing her anymore either.  She was only wearing a bath robe and he hadn’t even tried to touch her.  He hadn’t kissed her, there’d been no sexual innuendo, so what was going on?
    “You’re suddenly too nice – too well mannered,” she lowered her eyes once she said this.  You haven’t come near me – you haven’t put a finger on me since the plane.  Was what she really wanted to shout out at him but of course she couldn’t do that, could she?   But a fter what he’d done to her earlier today , in his penthouse, his behaviour was odd.  Here he had her to himself – she was his prisoner – completely under his control.   What about your plan to escape – make your mind up what you really want girl.  Good advice – but that was the problem – she couldn’t.  Where Matthew was concerned it was all confusion .
    “I would hope that I’m always well mannered,” he told her and raised a dark eyebrow.  “ Is that all?  Surely that can’t be it – come on tell me. Tell me what’s really bothering you.”
    Gina looked at the food on her plate wishing she’d never started this.  How to say it – how to ask him why he didn’t seem to want her anymore .
    “You don’t seem yoursel f,” she mumbled.  “You’re too… ,” she paused.  God this was difficult .  “Too reserved, and you haven’t come near me since we got here, ” she added hastily and with some difficulty .
    “Oh, I see,” he smirked knowing full well what the problem really was .  “So y ou think I’ve cooled towards you, you’re wondering why I’m not pursuing you anymore , chasing you round the bedroom now that I’ve got you all alone .  W ell that’s easily explained, Gina,” he said before putting another folk full of pasta into his mouth.
    Gina watched him.  He was teasing her again – eating , making her wait and dragging out his answer and all the while looking at her with those eyes. Those d angerously sexy eyes that ignited that fire - that inferno inside her body. 
    “You made your position , your feelings , very clear on the plane,” he shrugged.  “So I have no choice but to behave as you want me to.  I f that’s how you want it – then so be it,” he added with that familiar smirk again.  “But if it’s not – if all this well mannered distance is driving you wild then I can soon change things .   I know how unkind, how unfeeling I was this afternoon leaving you wanting like that.  I had no right to tease you,” he smirked again.  “I had you within a split second of climaxing twice and I denied