Confessions of Lady Grace by Rachel Ann Smith

Author:Rachel Ann Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

G race glared at her fiancé. The gall of the man to barge into her retreat and attempt to lecture her. She pulled the soft tartan tighter about her shoulders. Her skin tingled, still sensitive from Matthew’s skillful attentions. Blast Tobias and his bloody timing. Reining in her ire, Grace said, “I’d prefer you not speak to me in that tone.”

Tobias raked his ice-blue eyes over her face and lowered his gaze to the vee of the tartan. “Watching you come undone with your legs spread wide, Harrington’s fingers inside you, was the most pleasurable experience I’ve had in over a year.”

Shocked, Grace asked, “You saw us?”

“I would have been a fool to interrupt. Your features in the height of pleasure can only be described as exquisite. Eyelashes fluttering upon rosy red cheeks and… your oh-so-plump lips parted and shaped to form an O.” He shifted his weight and, without hesitation, adjusted his manhood right in front of her. “No one should be denied those heights of pleasure and gratification. Oh no, my dear. That would have left you in a rather foul mood.”

Though she was normally slow to anger, Tobias’s loathsome statements had Grace’s ire blazing. Foul mood indeed. Men and their bloody belief that obtaining climax was the sole purpose of having intimate relations. Bah. It might be the pinnacle of the experience, but certainly not the most pleasurable.

Grace arched her brow sardonically. “I suppose you like to watch.”

Tobias chuckled. He finally raised his gaze to meet hers. “Since I do not partake, yes. Albeit not as satisfying, observing does assist in relieving some of the tension.”

Grace’s pent-up frustrations had hardly been reduced by her interlude with Matthew. In fact, it had fortified and intensified her desires for him.

Refocusing on the man standing before her with a wolfish grin, she asked, “Are you stating the gossip about your debauchery is all lies?” She didn’t bother to mollify her tone.

“Hmm. I’m not familiar with the nattering that filters through the drawing rooms of my so-called peers. But I can honestly state I’ve not had the pleasure of a woman’s lips”—his gaze narrowed on her mouth—“nor body in fourteen months, sixteen days, and”—he pulled out his pocket watch—“eight hours.”

“Impossible!” He was reported to be a frequent patron of Madame Sinclair’s establishment.

Tobias leaned back slightly to look out the entrance. “I’d ask Harrington to testify that such self-restraint was possible. However, it appears he has indeed left. If I were a betting man, I’d wager Harrington would be able to quote the exact period of his abstinence down to the minute prior to this evening.”

To the minute would have been a feat. Grace was fully aware it had been twenty-three months, three days, and six hours since Matthew had last made love to her, but she could not attest to the minutes.

She shook her head, clearing it of doubts and images that made her ill. “Why are you really here?”

“I already told you—to discuss our wedding.” He meandered over to peek through the trellis and then returned to sit next to her at a socially acceptable distance.

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