Dangerous Duke (League of Dukes Book 3) by Scarlett Scott

Author:Scarlett Scott [Scott, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical
Publisher: Happily Ever After Books, LLC
Published: 2019-07-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Griffin had intended to be a gentleman.

He had told himself, repeatedly and sternly, that Lady Violet was giving up enough in this madcap scheme of theirs. He had also warned himself not to take her innocence before their wedding day. Though he was manipulating her, and though he was not being entirely honest with her about his intentions, he owed her a proper bedding as man and wife, not some furtive coupling on their way to Oxfordshire.

But that did not mean he could not give her pleasure in other ways, and it was the devil in him, rather than the gentleman, who was leading her by their linked hands from the scarred kitchen table to the stairs. He gestured for her to precede him. Neither one of them said a word, the heat emanating between them enough to ignite tinder into an inferno. Her sweet voice was an echo in his thoughts, spurring him onward.

I like those wicked words, she had said.

Sodding hell. He had told her he wanted to fuck her, as if she were accustomed to such raw, coarse declarations. As if she had heard those words before, words not proper, not befitting a lady. It was entirely possible she did not fully comprehend his confessions to her. It was also completely possible—a fact, really—that he did not give a damn. He would teach her everything.

And with great, excruciating pleasure.

But first…

First, he could not travel one more step without kissing her. Without tasting her again, feeling her lush lips molding to his, opening for him. It seemed a dream she would be his; this complex, intelligent, fiercely lovely creature. That a future, which had been beyond his control mere days ago, was now once more within his reach.

He wanted to thank her. To praise her. To devour her.

Halfway up the steep stairway leading to the second floor, he was driven to the edge of reason by the sight of her nipped waist and the intricate braid of her dark hair before him. He laid the lamp he had been carrying carefully on the stair behind him. And then his hands found her waist, stilling her, pausing the both of them. With his gentle guidance she turned, facing him, one step above, which rendered them an equal height. They stood nose to nose.

He fell into her eyes, brilliant and verdant. She was a goddess, Demeter, the abundance of life and fertility, and he wanted her so badly, he ached everywhere. Need was a fiery beast, rampaging through him, making him bold, telling him to grasp, to claim.

His hands tightened on her waist.

Because part of him—the small, sliver of goodness remaining, buried deep within the rest—insisted upon playing the gentleman, he did not ravage her mouth as he longed to do. Instead, he requested permission.

He released her waist with one hand and dragged the backs of his fingers over her silken cheek. “May I kiss you?”

Her hands framed his face, and damn it if that innocent touch, those silken

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