For Love of the Earl by Jessie Clever

Author:Jessie Clever [Clever, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780989568241
Google: 3xN1BAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 23478231
Publisher: Someday Lady Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

London, England

Just before their abduction

Alec prayed.

He hadn't really done much praying lately, but he figured that if any situation called for divine assistance, this was it. He had done everything he could think of, everything his pathetic, unimaginative brain could come up with to make his wife laugh, to make her love him. But nothing had worked. He sat in a cold, empty church, soaking wet from having walked around London for hours in the rain, and he prayed to a god he hadn't spoken to in years.

Desperate was the word that came to mind.

Desperate to make her look at him with something other than disdain. Desperate to make her see him for a human being and not the immature whelp he knew she saw. Desperate to stop being on the wrong side of all the doors she closed in his face.

Just desperate.

And last night...

God, last night.

He raised his eyes to the ceiling momentarily and wondered if he should clarify to God that he wasn't speaking to him directly at that moment.

But what had happened?

Well, he knew what had happened, but what had driven them to it? What had driven him to it?

In four years, he hadn't so much as spoken intimately to his wife. Hell, he hadn't even spoken friendly to his wife. There had been a time when he had jested with her, smiled with her and laughed with her. But he had always fooled himself. He did none of those things with her. He had just done them in the attempt to make her realize he was there. Intimacy was this mysterious thing that happened to other people, not him. But last night, he had clearly encountered intimacy and surged right through it to carnal knowledge.

But what was he supposed to do when the woman whom he had loved since the first sight of her had suddenly, unexpectedly kissed him?

In fact, kissed did not accurately described what she had done. She had all but devoured him. She had bit him. And stupid idiot that he was he had said Ow and nearly shoved her off the sofa. Ow was really not the best response in that situation, but she had bit him. It wasn't until she was almost to the door of the library in their townhouse that he thought to get up and go after her. And then he had happily returned the endearing show of emotion by biting her back. He knew he had probably hurt her, but the tracks her fingernails had made still burned down the length of his back.

He had reached the top of the stairs before he realized he was taking her to a bed. It was more like hauling her to a bed because she was tossed over his shoulder, but regardless of his method, his destination was clear. He was going to get his wife in a bed, and he was damn sure going to be present.

What he had not expected was to stop when he did, but he couldn't help it.

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