Chapter 6
Oliver remained in the cabin for a few minutes longer, his heart racing. He licked his lips and smiled. He could still taste Rayne’s sweetness there, and it gave him a heady rush. Everett had teased him last evening that the attraction would grow as the size of her fortune did, but Everett was wrong. Rayne was everything Oliver had ever dreamed of having in a wife, and he would have given up everything to be with her. It was simply good fortune that she was also an heiress. A flicker of guilt niggled him at the back of his mind for deceiving Rayne, but he had to ignore it. Rayne had desired him last evening and had been just as interested in him as he had been in her. And they had been complete strangers.
It was more than her beauty that drew him to her. Rayne was real and tang
