Defying a Pirate by Camille Oster

Author:Camille Oster [Oster, Camille]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Historical, Historical Romance
Amazon: B00EU8SNPC
Published: 2013-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Gemma woke up disbelieving her own memories. She’d given herself last night, to the man lying next to her. Her head ached somewhat, but that was nothing compared to the shocked realisation of what she’d done.

It had seemed like a natural course at the time. She still couldn’t quite believe it; it felt surreal, but she had the memories as proof. She couldn’t argue that it had been enjoyable—a revelation in fact, but that neither excused nor explained her own actions. She’d forfeited her dowry for heaven’s sake. She felt the bitter disappointment in herself set in. How could she have been so stupid?

She knew how as she looked over at the sleeping form of the man next to her, feeling her body quicken at the sight of him; his bare torso and the long arms curving with muscles and smooth skin. He’d seduced her and she’d fallen for it. She was still under the effects of it; it gripped her deep in her belly, urging her to keep looking.

Quietly stepping out of bed, she dressed in complete silence. She had to put distance between herself and the act they’d engaged it. She had to put up barriers to him; she tried to think how as she sat down at the table and waited for him to wake. She didn’t know what to do, no matter how she turned it over in her head, her confusion wouldn’t give. The previous night had been absolutely wonderful, it had been the answer to an earnest wish she hadn’t quite known she’d had. But it was also forbidden and she’d given herself over to temptation.

He woke slowly, shifted around in the bed. There was a part of her that wanted to rip her dress off and experience lying with him again. She closed her eyes and steadied herself. When she opened them again, he was watching her from the bed as he lay with the palm of his hand supporting his head.

“See now, I don’t like that look,” he said.

Ignoring him, she looked away.

“You look positively matronly,” he continued. “Regrets, Miss Montague?”

Getting up abruptly, she moved to the window where she watched the light from the water play on the glass.

“Rum can be positively...beastly,” he said almost a little effeminately, like he was telling her the thoughts she should have in her head.

“Are you ridiculing me?”

He was silent for a moment. “Why would I do that when I desperately want you back in this bed?”

Closing her eyes, she admitted the proposition was more tempting than she’d like to admit. All closing her eyes did was allow her to remember the kisses that had been her undoing—the deep, exploring kisses that melted her insides and her sense.

She supposed he felt like he’d won their bet. He had won their bet. But then he was a pirate and he’d used underhanded means in getting her here, and in extracting the bet in the first place. She didn’t technically have to honor it. She let her nail travel along a groove in the wood of the window.

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