A Daughter's Destiny by Ferguson Jo Ann

Author:Ferguson, Jo Ann
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504008822
Publisher: Open Road Distribution

Brienne woke with a start. She sat and searched the darkness. Where was she? Something cold dropped on her. Rain! Where was she?

When a gentle hand stroked her bare back, she drew in her breath to shriek. She let the air back out in a soft sigh as Evan’s touch reached through her terror.

He draped the blanket over her shoulders and pulled her away from the drip coming through the wagon roof. “What is wrong, honey?” He kissed her bare shoulder. “Are you all atremble at the prospect of sharing more of this?”

“I wish that was it.”

“Then, what is wrong?” he whispered, his voice abruptly serious.

“Can’t you feel it?” She wrapped her arms around herself. “It is out there. Waiting, eager, sure of victory over me … over us.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I thought you would know.”

His hands on her shoulders leaned her back against him. She closed her eyes and welcomed the comfort of his strong body. “I know, honey,” he answered as he placed his arms over hers. “I am just surprised that you believe me.”

“I have believed part of it from the beginning.” She laughed before correcting herself, “Almost from the beginning.”

He sighed so deeply that she could hear it from within his chest beneath the strapping. “Neither of us doubt that someone may still be following you. I hope they will not look for us with an Italian theater troupe.” He tilted her so she could see his smile. “Besides, I would like to be an actor for a while.”

“When aren’t you acting, Evan?”

“Now, honey.” The gentle pressure of his mouth against hers increased steadily as he wrapped his arms around her. “I want you more now than ever. I want to feel the silken texture of your skin against my mouth. Not just your lips, although they are sweet as honey. All of you.”

She sighed as he placed his lips in the curve of her neck which was still damp from the drip. The water boiled away beneath the heat of his kiss.

“Do you know how crazy I have been with longing,” he whispered, “to loosen your clothes and discover the loveliness underneath?”

“I know.” Her fingers quivered as they smoothed his hair back from his face. An answering hunger twisted within her as she wanted to melt against him like late snow warmed by a spring morning.

“When I think of tasting the curve of your breast”—he brushed his lips against her as his fingers glided along her thigh—“or the length of your slender legs, I fear I will explode with the craving for you. To dream of satisfying that yearning deep within you, to feel you all around me while your breath is warm against my mouth …”

He seared the rest of his longing into her lips. As he leaned her back into the soft cocoon of the cushions, she pushed aside her fear. All she wanted now was rapture.

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