A Dark Affair on Dower Street by Jillian Eaton

Author:Jillian Eaton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-07-22T21:00:00+00:00

THAT, HEATH THOUGHT GRIMLY as he began to tidy up the remnants of their uneaten dinner, could have gone better.

It was his own damn fault. He never should have deviated from his plan. A plan that involved them getting to know each other over a pleasant meal. They would have then retired to his study, him with a glass of port, her with a glass of sherry. They might have even shared a kiss, something innocent and sweet before they went to their separate rooms for the evening. That was how a courtship was supposed to go. That was how the night should have ended. That was how he had decided he was going to handle things. How he was going to handle her.

Instead he’d taken her on the floor like a rutting beast and he had no one to blame for his incomprehensible behavior but himself.

Heath was not a man accustomed to losing control. Yet from the very moment he saw Ava crouched in the alley he’d been teetering on the brink of doing just that, and tonight all of his carefully constructed layers of restraint had come crashing down around him.

Piling the dishes high he stomped into the kitchen and slammed them with unnecessary force onto the wooden counter. Cleaning the table was a job usually left to the servants, but since he needed something to prevent himself from running up the stairs and demanding entry into Ava’s bedroom he welcomed the task, as menial as it was.

He never should have touched her in courtyard. That is where it had all gone wrong, for once he learned the taste of her mouth he’d known instantly that he would never be satisfied with just one kiss. Like a man possessed he’d thought of her for the entire day, his inability to focus drawing speculative glances and whispers from his colleagues for Heath Mason was not a man easily distracted.

He had bumbled through his work, unable to concentrate on anything except for the memory of how soft Ava’s skin had been and how it had felt to run his fingers through her short silky crop of hair.

Slicing off a piece of lamb he slapped the cold meat onto an empty plate and ate while he paced circles around the dining room table, his bare feet silent on the floorboards.

Of all the women in the world, why did his heart finally have to stutter for a pixie with big green eyes and a sassy tongue?

Heath was no monk. He’d slept with women before. Enjoyed them. Even taken a mistress or too. But he’d always kept a part of himself detached. He had thought he would be able to do the same with Ava, but she’d wormed her way inside of the deepest, darkest, most secretive part of him and no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t pull her back out again.

Polishing off the slab of lamb, he exchanged the plate for a thick piece of bread, needing to fill the ache inside of him.

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