A Promise Kept

"Don't you believe I could make you love me?"
Pippa swallowed, left speechless by his unexpected question. At last she found her voice. "Love can't be forced."
"No?" Carlos said. But perhaps it can be cajoled."
Before she knew what he was about, Carlos's lips claimed hers in a kiss that was insistently intimate. At first she resisted. Then, as he pressed kiss after kiss on her trembling mouth, Pippa began kissing him back with unbelievable yearning.
At last he released her, and a bemused Pippa stared up at him, color flooding her cheeks.
Then, when she saw the arrogant satisfaction in his dark eyes, fury replaced desire.