Forbidden Knight by Diana Cosby

Author:Diana Cosby [Cosby, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The ache to feel Thomas’s lips upon hers smothered Alesone’s intent to keep her distance. On a shudder, she pressed her mouth against his, and groaned beneath the explosion of sensation. As his taste flooded her, she shifted closer, stilled. He hadna moved.

Humiliation smothered the shot of desire, and she stumbled back. “I am sorry.”

Thomas caught her arm. “Why did you kiss me?” he rasped, his gaze searing into hers.

“When we played chess you…” Heat stole up her cheeks, and she shook her head, wishing she could disappear. Throughout her life, outside Grisel and Burunild, she’d hadna allowed herself to become close to anyone.

How had this man had broken her carefully constructed barriers? More, made her yearn for his touch. “I believed you were attracted to me, that I…” She gave a shaky exhale. “Forgive me.”

“Alesone.” He stepped before her.

Tears clogged her throat. “I am sorry.” She tried to jerk free, but he drew her closer. Their bodies aligned; she tried to ignore his muscled strength, his protective yet gentle hold. Until this aloof warrior had entered her life, never had she envisioned meeting a man that made her want. Except given the circumstance, however much she ached for him, ’twas wrong to embroil him in her debacle of a life as more than that of her protector.

“Alesone—”

“Let me go. Please.” Before the yearnings rushing through her eroded her fragile hold and she asked him to stay and to lay with her throughout the night. Shocked by the yearnings he aroused, she awaited the flood of guilt, the remorse, but found only desire instead.

His hand skimmed up her neck to cradle her mouth. “And if I left,” Thomas pressed his mouth over hers, along the curve of her jaw, and against her throat, and with each touch, she surrendered further. “I would be a fool.”

“Thomas, I—”

“’Tis unseemly for me to remain.”

Thrills shot through her at his quiet challenge, the unveiled need. “’Tis.”

Something dangerous flickered in his eyes, and her heart slammed against her chest. With sultry slowness, he kissed each finger, and then drew her against him until their mouths were but a breath apart. “Your pulse is racing.”

“I canna think.” The truth, this close, wanting him, the words she needed to say to push him away vanished.

Green eyes darkened with heat. “Mayhap ’tis best.”

“Is it?” she whispered.

“I am unsure.” He again claimed her mouth, took the kiss deeper, and whatever she’d meant to say faded beneath the blur of heat.

They’d kissed before, but against this onslaught, what she’d experienced prior ’twas a simple exchange of desire. Now, his each touch, taste became vital to her very existence. His mouth feasted, and she gave, demanded in return.

With tenderness he freed the ties of her gown, and then his fingers skimmed across the sensitive curves. Her body trembling, she arched, giving him access, wanting more.

On a muttered curse, he caught her shoulders. “As much as I want you, we canna do this.”

His rough words shattered the euphoria clouding her mind.

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