A Lesson in Passion: Season of Desire Part 4 (Seasons Quartet) (11 page)

 
‘You’re fired!’ screams my father, almost spitting in his rage. ‘You get out of my property and never set foot in it again! If you come within one hundred yards of my daughter, I’ll have you sued! Imprisoned! And if you think you’re going to get a job in this country now, you’re completely mistaken!’

 
‘I kind of had the impression already that I was fired,’ Miles says, a tiny smile playing near his lips. ‘Okay. Fine. I’ve done nothing but care for Freya and protect her. You’re wrong about me, and I think that deep down you know it.’

 
‘I know nothing of the sort,’ Dad bellows. ‘Now get out!’

 
‘Okay.’ Miles puts out his hands in calming gesture. ‘I’m going. Don’t take this out on Freya, that’s all I ask.’

 
‘You’re in no position to ask for anything, Murray. And don’t you ever come near my daughter again.’

 
‘I think that’s down to Freya, actually,’ Miles says in a pleasant voice. He turns and begins to stride to the door. He stops opposite me and our eyes meet. His gaze makes me want to melt and he says in a caressing voice, ‘Don’t let him upset you, angel. Live life on your own terms, not his.’

 
‘Don’t go,
please
…’ I whisper, my voice drenched with longing.

 
‘I have to. You see that, don’t you? But keep the faith. You’ll be okay.’ He smiles at me, that gorgeous half smile I love so much. I want to rush to him, kiss him, hug him and feel his strong arms around me. But I can’t move. ‘Bye, angel.’

 
He walks to the door, opens it and strides out. I feel as though my heart is being torn from me.

 
My father says in an icy voice, ‘Freya, you will never see him again, do you understand?’

 
I can’t speak. I’m watching the empty doorway where Miles has just exited.

 
‘You will never see him again,’ my father repeats. ‘He’s a traitor and a liar. Can’t you see that, Freya?’

 
But I can’t say anything. My throat is constricted and my eyes swimming. The vision of a life without Miles in it is too much to bear.

 
‘If you do,’ my father says in a tone I’ve never heard before, ‘you can leave this house and never come back. Do you understand, Freya? That man or your family. That’s your choice.’

 
I feel as though my heart will break.

 
Miles, I need you! Please… please… don’t leave me.

Has Part Four left you wanting
more
…?

A Lesson in Love (Season of Desire: Part Five) is available to buy now!

Also by Sadie Matthews

The After Dark trilogy

Fire After Dark

Secrets After Dark

Promises After Dark

About the author

Sadie Matthews is the author of six novels of contemporary women's fiction published under other names. In her own work, she has described decadent worlds of heady escapism and high drama.
Fire After Dark
was her first novel to explore a more intimate and intense side of life and relationships.
Secrets After Dark
and
Promises After Dark
complete the
After Dark
series – her first provocative romantic trilogy. She is married and lives in London.

Find Sadie Matthews on Twitter at

twitter.com/sadie_matthews
.

Have you read the After Dark series? Deeply intense and romantic, provocative and sensual, it is where Dominc and Beth’s story began, and will take you to a place where love and sex are liberated from their limits.

Sadie Matthews

FIRE AFTER DARK

It started with a spark...

Everything changed when I met Dominic. My heart had just been broken, split into jagged fragments that can jigsaw together to make me look enough like a normal, happy person.

Dominic has shown me a kind of abandonment I've never known before. He takes me down a path of pure pleasure, but of pain, too – his love offers me both lightness and dark. And where he leads me, I have no choice but to follow.

Out now in ebook, paperback and audio

Sadie Matthews

SECRETS AFTER DARK

Ours was a love bound by power...

Falling in love with Dominic changed me. I relinquished myself completely and placed my heart and my trust in Dominic's hands, but in one exquisite, excruciating moment he abandoned his control. Anguished by his actions, he has locked those darkest desires inside, unable to share my conviction that it would never happen again.

Now it's not only Dominic who craves that delicate, seductive game of give and take, of walking the line between pain and pleasure, abandon and release. Persuading Dominic to let those secret parts of himself unravel will be the biggest risk I've ever taken, but I can't resist. Even if it means we fall apart...

Out now in ebook, paperback and audio

Sadie Matthews

PROMISES AFTER DARK

Can a fractured love be salvaged?

Parting with Dominic has left me broken in a way I could never have imagined. We held elation in the palm of our hands, but one misunderstanding brought it crashing down around us. Now the hurt and sadness follows me like a shadow and makes choosing the right path to take impossible.

But one moment with him and the pulsing heat is singing in my blood again; his touch lights a fire that my body refuses to ever forget. I'm hopelessly lost in him. Finding our way back to one another will take trust and a leap of faith - only then we will know whether we have a chance at forever.

Provocative and sophisticated, exhilarating and

seductive, the
After Dark
series is a compelling pleasure

we should all indulge in . . .

Out now in ebook, paperback and audio