Dancing with a Rogue by Patricia Potter

Author:Patricia Potter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Open Road Media Romance
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Gabriel had been ready to leave. He’d had enough of games. She was not going to tell him anything, and he certainly didn’t intend to tell her anything she could reveal to the man he’d dreamed about ruining these many years.

Yet he had lingered a moment too long. He had allowed himself to indulge those very compelling feelings. He had wanted to touch her again, to see whether her skin was really as soft as he remembered, whether her hair still smelled of roses. Whether those eyes could ignite fires within him.

Surely not.

Not if he used the discipline that had brought him to where he was. As brittle as her explanations were, as wily as her answers, he saw a vulnerability that touched him. He kept trying to tell himself that it, too, was only a pose, an actress’s trick.

Yet he really didn’t believe that. She did not trust him. He couldn’t complain about that because he didn’t trust her, either. Yet he could not rid himself of a feeling that there might be common cause here.

A feeling that was all too dangerous. If she really was the courtesan she seemed to be, she could destroy him with a word.

Yet the temptation was overpowering. Instead, he kissed her lightly on the cheek, then found himself unable to leave it at that. Her skin was as soft as he remembered, her hair like silk, her breath like the light breeze of a spring day.

She was intoxicating, and he understood why and how she had half of London panting after her.

He wondered whether part of it was because she was so different from other women he had known. Of course, he had taken little time in the past few years to cultivate a woman. Instead, he’d favored women who’d wanted no more than a momentary affair.

He’d never been tempted to linger.

This woman could make him linger for a very long time.

That terrified him, even as it intrigued him.

But he also knew her eyes were on a bigger prize, a wealthier prize.

That thought spurred him. She had no interest in an extended affair. Perhaps a brief interlude would dull the aching need inside him.

All those thoughts flitted through his mind as he hesitated, knowing that he might well not retreat easily from this bed as he had others. Her eyes, now a stormy gray as expressive as a squall at sea, appeared to reflect the same confusion that he had. Doubt mixed with desire.

Desire won. His lips pressed down on hers. He tasted her lips, then his tongue explored her mouth, tentatively at first, then with a sense of growing urgency.

Her arms went around his neck, and his arms tightened around her, drawing her near. Her gown was muslin and feather light and he could feel her body through it. Soft and supple but with strength. No girl’s body, but a woman’s.

He felt it change as his hands stroked her back, then moved to her breasts as his lips continued their seduction of her mouth.

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