Charlotte by Virginia Taylor

Author:Virginia Taylor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Nick brought Charlotte to another shattering release. He couldn’t believe his luck. By chance, he’d married a woman who appreciated the pleasures of the flesh and performed with starry-eyed enthusiasm. Rarely had he coupled with a woman who made no fuss over having her hair messed or her clothing tossed aside, who didn’t insist on being feted in payment for sex, who didn’t insist on anything.

Charlotte looked as exquisite naked as she did dressed, and she was the best card-cheat he’d ever met. He’d rediscovered that last night during a rare evening at home.

She smiled at him sleepily, her eyes already closing.

He tugged on one of her dark, springing curls. “I’m rather enamored of the idea of sleeping with my wife.”

“It’s done in the best of families,” she said, snuggling into his chest. “Especially when couples want babies.” She rested her lips against his chest.

He grasped her shoulder and made certain she looked into his eyes. “No babies,” he said, jolted out of his complacency. “Not mine. Never mine. I can only make monsters.”

She blinked at him. “Why on earth would you say that?”

“Previous experience,” he said tightly.

“How many previous babies have you had?”

“Just the one. That was enough.” He moved out of her hold and sat up.

She frowned. “You don’t know you can only make monsters.”

“I do.” He swung his legs over the side of the bed. “I won’t risk another child of mine being born dead or even worse, crippled.”

“But why was that your fault? Couldn’t the problem have been pure bad luck?”

He stood. “No.”

“I want to know how you know that.” She lifted her shining hair and wound the dark mass over one shoulder.

“My father was an only child, and my grandfather was an only child. My mother came from a prolific family, and she had five babies after me,” he said, emphasizing each word, “but not one lived. The fault is clearly in my family, and I’ve proved it once. Once is enough. When you’re a little older and know how to behave with discretion, perhaps you could find another to sire a child on you. I’ll accept it as mine.”

“As you would the child you thought I carried.” She glanced at him, her head slightly tilted in query.

“Yes.”

“You would like me to commit adultery.”

“Not immediately.” His insides lurched with a momentary panic. He was well on the way to being in love with her, but he couldn’t let himself grow emotionally involved—not with a woman who would end up despising him. “If you have issues with my decisions, I’ll go back to my former way of life.”

She dropped her hair and gave a sudden laugh. “Not easy in your case when you so clearly love women.”

“You wretch,” he said, angling toward her. He’d thought they were having words, and they were, but not heated words. Words more of an exploratory kind.

She knelt behind him and circled her arms around his neck. He leaned back and lost himself in a deep kiss.

In the aftermath, she

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