An Affair with a Notorious Heiress by Lorraine Heath

Author:Lorraine Heath
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

He was fairly certain that within the annals of horseracing history would be a footnote that indicated the Marquess of Rexton had been a complete and utter fool. When given the opportunity to breed one of the fastest and finest stallions in existence with his mare, he’d tossed it aside in favor of his cock.

Tillie—after the searing kiss they’d just shared he could no longer think of her in so formal a manner as Lady Landsdowne—stared at him with wide eyes and slightly parted lips. Damn but he was anxious to explore that mouth again. He didn’t know if he’d ever tasted anything so sweet.

“Me?” she asked finally, as though insulted. She glanced over her shoulder at the bed. “There I suppose.” Swiveling her head back around, she glared at him. “You want to fuck me.”

He regretted now his choice of word earlier. He’d been keenly disappointed her reason for meeting him wasn’t the one he’d expected, that they weren’t already tangled in the sheets, lost to wild and untamed passion. “I want to have an affair with you.”

Again, she seemed surprised by his words. Did she think he was going to be content with one night, one coupling? Was that her usual method? Once with a gent before moving on? Once with a footman—within her residence by all accounts; once with a couple of gents here? The jealousy that ratcheted through him with the thought of any of those men touching her might have doubled him over if he weren’t sitting.

“An affair,” she repeated as though testing the word on her tongue.

“And not here.” He’d taken other women within these walls, but he didn’t want to bed her here. She was somehow different, in ways he couldn’t fathom or explain.

Her delicate brow furrowed. “Why not here?”

It gave him hope that she was considering his proposition. “It’s too tawdry.”

She tilted her head to the side as though the angle would allow her to decipher his meaning better. “But you’ve been with other ladies within this establishment.”

And she’d been with other men. Perhaps that was part of it. But more, he wanted with her something he’d never had. “I see no need for the games played within these rooms. I reside alone. You can come to my residence in an unmarked carriage—or I can send mine for you. Wear a hooded cloak. If someone figures out it’s you, it’s not as though your reputation will be sullied.”

“There is that, I suppose.” She took a swallow of whisky, tapped the glass. “Although I don’t want you bragging that you’re fucking me.”

Damn these Americans for their boldness. An English lass would have been shocked, but never repeated the word once, much less carrying on so. “I’m not going to be fucking you.”

She raised a finely arched brow. “Is that not the purpose of an affair?”

“I apologize for using the crass word in your company. I shouldn’t have. It was ungentlemanly and you are undeserving of such language. Trust me, when we are done, you’ll be glad to have been in my bed.

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