A Lady's Desire by Lily Maxton

Author:Lily Maxton [Maxton, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lily Maxton
Published: 2018-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

In the dim glow of the lantern that shone through the carriage window, Sarah could make out a dusting of pink across Win’s cheeks. Sarah had been sensible in the old abandoned hermitage, in the quiet of the woods—they’d done nothing more than kiss, aware that someone might come looking for them if they were gone too long.

But as she stared at Win, at bruised lips and hair that was disheveled from Sarah’s hands, she found it almost impossible to be sensible.

She wanted to run her palms along Win’s ample curves, to find the shape of her underneath her clothes. Feel how they were the same and how they were different.

“I…” Win met her gaze, then glanced out the window, blush deepening, and Sarah felt a tug at her heart.

She hadn’t expected this shyness from the other woman. She reached her hand out, across the space between them, and, after barely a second of hesitation, Win reached out, too.

But instead of taking her hand, Sarah tugged at Win’s glove, finger by finger, fascinated by the slow reveal of skin. It was a bit like unwrapping a gift, waiting with breathless anticipation to see what would be unveiled next. She let the glove fall to the carriage floor, then, overwhelmed by the need to feel the press of skin against skin, removed her own glove. She bent low, tracing her thumb along Win’s fingers, across each bitten nail.

“It’s an ugly habit,” Win said, and Sarah heard the self-consciousness in her voice. There it was again, that heavy sweet pull at her chest.

Didn’t Win realize she was the loveliest thing Sarah had ever seen?

“I have worse habits,” she replied.

“Really?” A note of amused skepticism crept into Win’s tone. “Such as?”

“I used to read while I walked…until the day I nearly stepped in front of a carriage because I wasn’t paying enough attention.”

“Sarah!”

“I don’t do it anymore,” she hastened to add. “One instance of almost being flattened was quite enough for me.” It had been a habit she’d picked up in the weeks after Win had moved to London, loathe to tear herself away from fiction and be plummeted back to reality.

“And no part of you could ever be ugly to me.” Sarah told her, surprised by how her own voice emerged, low and intent and reverent.

Win’s eyes widened, and Sarah ducked her head and pressed a lingering kiss to the center of the other woman’s palm. Her nose brushed the fragile skin of her wrist.

Win made a soft, helpless noise at the back of her throat, the same noise she’d made when they’d kissed, and Sarah wanted to lean forward and swallow it whole. She came to a decision in that instant—she had had quite enough of being sensible.

“I’ll be awake late tonight. You can come to my room, if you’d like.”

Win sucked in an audible breath. “Are you…do you mean…”

“I’m inviting you to my bed, yes,” she said, amused despite the coil of tension in her stomach. She might have

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