Fever Dreams by Nicole Jordan

Author:Nicole Jordan [Jordan, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 0345467876
Google: eT7IysRaX14C
Amazon: B000GCFW46
Barnesnoble: B000GCFW46
Goodreads: 7155434
Published: 2006-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Ten

He brought her home shortly before dawn. After slipping upstairs to her bedchamber, Eve undressed and climbed into bed. For a long while she lay there dreamily as remembered images of her night with Ryder swirled in her mind: The tenderness and the heat. How she had trembled in his arms. The way his hands had drifted over her skin as though she were something lovely and precious. The stunning way he had branded her with the fervor of his body and the fire of his mouth.

He was an expert at making her come alive in ways she’d never known were possible in her entire six years of marriage. Ryder had given her experiences, made her feel sensations—desire, passion, fulfillment—more vivid, more overwhelming than she could ever have imagined. He had seen things in her she had never seen in herself.

Eve closed her eyes, hugging the splendid memories to herself. The marvel of the wonderful night made her throat ache. And when she finally slept, her dreams of Ryder were touched by a wild enchantment.

She woke an hour later, feeling a twinging ache between her thighs from her unaccustomed carnal exertions. As she rose and rang for a bath, Eve smiled a shy, secretive smile. Her discomfort now was nothing like the painful rawness she’d felt every time after her husband was done with her, but merely a pleasurable reminder of Ryder’s incredible lovemaking.

Several times last night, he had offered to stop in order to give her body a respite, but she hadn’t wanted to waste a moment of their interlude. She had been so wanton, so needy, she felt positively wicked.

Yet she also felt free and intensely alive.

She’d never felt alive as a woman before, Eve realized. Never like now. The sense of power Ryder had given her was liberating.

It had been the most intense experience of her life. For a brief moment Ryder had turned her world upside down. She hadn’t expected to wake up with this happiness unfurling inside her, though. She felt giddy and foolish and tingly all over.

Until disappointment suddenly washed over her. Now that their night was over, Eve reminded herself, she had to return to reality. Ryder had fulfilled his pledge to help her overcome her fear, so there was no reason for any further physical intimacy between them…even if she caught herself yearning for it.

There was not even the issue of her sister to come between them, since Ryder had confessed he had no real desire to marry Claire, but had only used the threat as leverage to convince Eve to let him show her passion.

Eve had been lying beneath him, gasping for breath after their final bout of lovemaking, when Ryder raised his fingertips to stroke her flushed cheek.

“You can’t seriously think I feel any romantic inclinations toward your sister,” he murmured, gazing solemnly down at her. “Claire is lovely and sweet, but a mere girl—like a younger sister to me. I can’t begin to picture her as my bride. Nor does she have the slightest intention of wedding me.

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