Wrapped In Pleasure - Brenda Jackson [40]
He was surprised. Women in his country remained virgins until they married. “You had a problem with being a virgin?”
She heard the censure in his voice. “No, I didn’t have a problem with it, but then I didn’t want to die a virgin, either.”
He took her hand in his, letting his fingers curl around hers and ignoring the sexual rush just touching her invoked. “There were never any plans in your future to marry?”
“Yes, but no time soon. I wanted to establish myself as a doctor before getting serious about anyone.”
Jamal nodded. He then thought of another question that he wanted to ask her. “What about your lingerie?”
She lifted a brow. “My lingerie?”
“Yes.”
“What about them?”
He cleared his throat. “They are the type a woman normally wears to entice a man. Why would you bring such sleeping attire when you had planned to be at this cabin alone?”
Delaney smiled, understanding his question. She enjoyed going shopping for sexy lingerie and feminine undergarments. Her bras and panties were always purchased in matching sets, and she tended to be attracted to bright colors and for the most part shied away from plain-looking white underthings.
“I like looking and feeling sexy, Jamal, even when there’s no one there to notice but me. Whenever I buy lingerie and underthings, I buy what I like for me with no man in mind.”
“Oh.”
“Now I have a question for you, Jamal,” Delaney said softly.
“Yes?”
“Why would you bring all those packs of condoms with you when you had planned to be here alone?”
He grinned sheepishly at her. “I didn’t bring them. I purchased them after I got here.”
“When?” she asked lifting a curious brow.
“The night you and I went to that all-night supermart,” he said, studying her features and wondering how she felt knowing he had planned her seduction even then. He reached out and touched her chin with his finger. “Are you upset?”
“No,” she said as a smile curved her lips. “I’m not upset. I’m glad you did have the good sense to buy them.”
Long after Delaney had fallen asleep, Jamal was still awake. For some reason the thought of another man sleeping with her, holding her in his arms the way he was doing bothered him. It also disturbed him that one day there would be a man in her life who would see her in all those sexy lingerie and underthings that she liked buying for herself.
When he finally dozed off to sleep, his mind was trying to fight the possessiveness he felt for the beautiful woman asleep in his arms.
“I take it that you enjoyed the movie,” Jamal said when he pulled Delaney’s car to a stop in front of the cabin.
She smiled, showing perfect white teeth and very sensuous lips. “What woman wouldn’t enjoy a movie with Denzel Washington in it?”
He searched her face, amazed at the tinge of jealousy he was feeling. “You really like him, don’t you?”
“Of course,” she responded, getting out of the car and walking up the steps to the door. “What woman could resist Denzel?”
Jamal frowned. “And you would go out on a date with him if he were to ask you?”
Delaney stopped walking and turned around. She studied Jamal’s expression, seeing his frown and clenched teeth. As she continued to observe him, she had a sudden flash of insight when something clicked in her brain. He’s jealous! Of all the outrageous…
She inwardly smiled. If that was true it meant, just possibly, that he cared something for her. But then a voice within her taunted, Not necessarily. It could also mean that now that he has slept with you he sees you as a possession he wants to keep and add to the other things he owns.
“Yes, I would go out with him,” she finally answered, and saw the frown on his face deepen. “However, I don’t plan on losing sleep waiting for such a miracle to happen. Besides, I doubt he would ask any woman out on a date since he’s a married man.” She quirked a brow. “Why do you want to know?”
He walked past her and said, “Curious.”
She fell silent as she followed him to the porch. When she had awakened that