A Dangerous Passion by Jillian Eaton

Author:Jillian Eaton [Eaton, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-02T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Over the next four weeks Lilly was happier than she’d ever been. Bran treated her like a queen, and she’d never been so spoiled in all of her life. It seemed she had only to think of something and he gave it to her.

A new hat trimmed with silk ribbon. A cloak lined with the softest fur she’d ever felt. A signed first edition by her favorite author whose name she’d spoken only in passing. Not to mention an entirely new wardrobe complete with enough shoes, gloves, and undergarments to last her entire lifetime.

Although it wasn’t just the things he gave her. While perfectly lovely, they were all material. Easily given and easily taken away.

No.

It was how he treated her. The long, lingering looks that never failed to bring heat to her belly and a blush to her cheeks. The way he listened with such rapt attention, as if every word that graced her lips was of the utmost importance. The way he asked for her opinion and then actually heeded it. She’d never had anyone heed her suggestions before. Not her mother, not her father, and certainly not Doyle.

And it was how he touched her. Sometimes his caresses were so sweet she could have wept from the gentleness of them, and other times he took her with all the savagery of a wild beast. All of her shyness and inhibitions melted away when she was wrapped in his arms, revealing a passionate creature she’d never known was hiding deep, deep inside of her, yearning to get out.

Under Bran’s tender care she’d gradually transformed from a shy, wilting daisy into a beautiful rose. But this rose still had thorns; tiny sharp reminders of a past she couldn’t quite seem to forget, no matter how she tried.

She felt as if she were constantly watching a clock. As long as the hands kept moving, everything would stay the same. But the minute they stopped then so would her newfound happiness. All because she’d gone and done the one thing she had promised herself she wouldn’t do: she’d fallen in love with Bran. Deliriously, wildly, head-over-heels in love. And while part of her dreamed of their affair lasting forever, the other part was simply waiting for the left shoe to drop.

She knew Bran wouldn’t throw her out with nothing. He wasn’t that sort of man. He would see to it that she was taken of, but how many shillings did it take to repair a broken heart? With every day that passed the price climbed higher and higher…until she feared it was one she might never be able to afford.

Lilly glanced up from the book she’d been mindlessly paging through when she heard footsteps on the stone walkway leading out to the rear garden. Schooling her features to disguise the unease that rippled just beneath the surface, she greeted Bran with a smile. “I didn’t expect you back so soon.”

“The errand didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would.” He sat down beside her on the wooden bench and pulled her into his arms for a kiss.

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