Devil's Embrace by Catherine Coulter

Author:Catherine Coulter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Man-Woman Relationships, England, Genoa (Italy), General, Romance, British - Italy, Kidnapping, Historical, Historical Fiction, Upper Class Women, Fiction, Nobility, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780451200266
Publisher: SIGNET
Published: 1982-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Cassie dismissed Rosina for the night and sat at her dressing table, trying not to look at the earl as he shrugged out of his dressing gown. But she always looked. He lazily stretched his large body. He was not a particularly vain man, but he knew well enough that his body was well made. Her furtive, embarrassed scrutiny always delighted him. He strolled up behind her and laid his hands lightly upon her shoulders.

“Have you no modesty?” she said, terribly aware that her body, as usual, was responding to him.

He leaned over and kissed her temple. “Very shortly, cara, I shall have the opportunity of accusing you of an equal lack of modesty.” He took the hairbrush from her limp fingers and stroked it through her thick hair.

“Your shoulder has healed,” she said, her eyes upon his reflection in the mirror.

He flexed it unconsciously. “Yes. I’m pleased that you have done no permanent damage to my body.” He added with a wolfish grin, “I continue to enjoy, however, the temporary disability you force upon me.”

“No more of a disability, my lord, than your infamous party forced upon me.”

“Come, my love, you have admitted that you did enjoy yourself, at least for the most part.”

“Joseph,” she said suddenly, her voice heavy with accusation.

“Joseph, cara?” He laid the hairbrush on the table top and let his hands slip beneath her dressing gown to caress her shoulders.

She closed her eyes a moment, her body aching for his fingers to continue their movement, and leaned her head back against his belly. Long strands of golden hair weaved themselves into the thick black hair at his groin.

“Joseph?”

“Yes,” she said, and with great effort pulled herself away from him to rise.

“You are exquisite.”

She looked down and saw that her dressing gown had parted and her breasts were bare. She clutched the material together and turned her back to him, for her wretched eyes would not stay upon his face.

He laughed, walked to the huge bed, and stretched his full length upon his back. He patted a spot beside him. “Come here, Cassandra. I am not against a little conversation. Anticipation cannot but heighten pleasure.”

She sat down beside him for the simple reason that her traitorous eyes would be shielded from his body. She frowned a moment, remembering. “Joseph acted quite strangely the other day. I asked him why a Corsican would serve the Genoese, whom he hates. He told me that his loyalty was only to you. When I asked him why, he informed me that such a story was not for my innocent ears. As you know, my ears are not so innocent, my lord. I am now asking you.”

Her eyes were wide with sudden curiosity. The earl was silent for some moments as his fingers wrapped themselves around a thick tress of hair that fell upon his chest.

“Actually, Cassandra,” he said finally, “you are much too innocent. Joseph was right in not telling you.”

“I am not innocent. Do you not make love with

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