Dangerous by Amy Sandas

Author:Amy Sandas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: regency historical romance, reformed rake, steamy historical romance, novella
Publisher: Amy Sandas
Published: 2019-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Desdemona jotted down the details of a contradictory report she’d just come across and made a mental note to recheck her prior source to see if there was an explanation for the discrepancy. As she reached for a fresh sheet of paper, she slid a quick glance across the room.

He was still there.

It made her nervous. In a thrilling, leave-her-completely-off-balance sort of way.

She should have shooed him from her private apartments as soon as she’d looked up to see his sensually smiling lips and striking gaze. Ridiculous, but it had honestly felt like her heart had skipped a beat at the sight of him.

Count Vittori was wild, rakish, and scandalous in every way a man could be. Even if she hadn’t read about him for years in the gossip pages, she would have known it the moment she’d met him on the moors. His presence was too electric and intimate for a proper gentleman.

He was dangerous. And he was currently wandering about her study as if he belonged there.

Covertly watching him in her personal space—amongst her personal things—was extremely disconcerting. But not nearly as disconcerting as the possibility that he actually might want to seduce her.

She recalled the moment she’d suspected that was his intention with a rush of tingling heat. He’d replied to her inquiry with a teasing response, but she suspected it would take very little effort on his part if seduction was his true intention.

She was probably half-seduced already.

She liked the way he smiled at her and the way he looked at her as if she were a question he was determined to find the answer to. That searching intensity in his eyes stirred something deep inside her, warming her belly and quickening her pulse. His sensuality was simply too potent. It was evident in his heavy-lidded gaze and the flirtatious, irreverent curve of his lips, in the smooth rhythm of his movements and the richness of his voice. She felt it in every breath she took. It seeped through her skin.

And frankly, she wanted more of it.

Though she had very little experience with men in general and absolutely no experience with a man like Vittori, Desdemona was not completely ignorant of such things. Her years of reading the personal diaries of her many ancestors allowed her a unique perspective on how lust and intimate passions could be aroused in a person. Certainly, enough for her to understand that what she was experiencing in reaction to the sophisticated and handsome Count Vittori was desire.

She watched him lean forward to examine a row of books on her corner bookcase. He had his back to her as he perused the slim volumes, allowing her the opportunity to admire the strong width of his shoulders beneath the evening coat he still wore. She noted the length and musculature of his limbs and then found herself studying the way his black hair brushed in haphazard fashion over his ears and stiff white collar.

He was a seamless blend of elegance and

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