Freed by the Marquess (Lords of Desire Book 3) by Stevie Sparks

Author:Stevie Sparks [Sparks, Stevie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

15

Caroline

By sunrise, Caroline accepted it was pointless trying to sleep.

Even if she fell asleep now, the amount of rest she’d gain wasn’t worth it. She’d be half a corpse for the rest of the day if she had to drag herself out of bed after a meagre ninety minutes. She’d do better staying awake and having an early night on the ship.

Instead, she washed and dressed, ensuring her suitcases were as packed as they were ever going to be. Her bloodstained shoes from last night had been enthusiastically exchanged for her comfiest pumps, the leather supple and soft and the heels almost non-existent.

The staff were rather surprised to see her up and about—and there was no breakfast to be found, unless she wanted to eat last night’s leftover hors d'oeuvres.

“No matter.” She smiled. “I haven’t yet had a chance to visit the bakery Siân speaks so highly of.” It was apparently only a block away. Caroline didn’t know what a block was, but it couldn’t be that far. “I think a croissant on Bethesda Terrace is just the thing after the cocktail party. Would you mind, um, pointing me in the right direction?” She knew where the latter was, but not the former.

In the end, Siân’s maid Helena agreed to accompany her.

And so nine o’clock found her sitting on a stone balustrade in Central Park, lazily watching the flow of the fountain and the rowboats gently drifting in the lake beyond. The early morning sunshine was a warm companion, but Helena sat near the fountain below with her nose in a book and an apple turnover in her hand.

Once her croissant was finished, Caroline bit her lip, her thoughts swirling and her neck prickling under Helena’s gaze.

She was getting a divorce. Her mother would have fainted.

Part of her did feel guilty. She’d never imagined she’d be the sort of woman to stray from the marital bed, but then she also hadn’t ever visited the marital bed.

It wasn’t like Harry hadn’t told her to go out and do as she pleased. She very much doubted that he felt this kind of turmoil on their wedding night, or any of the nights since.

Divorce would come as a relief, but intimacy had been a shock.

David.

It wasn’t like Emmeline hadn’t warned her. Sex is consuming, she’d said, and so very, very wonderful. And last night hadn’t even been sex! It was…sex adjacent.

Caroline clenched her thighs together. Whatever it was, she had liked it a lot.

Would he expect her to return the favour? Emmeline had explained all about that as well—most notably how she should never feel forced to do it. But the urge to take David into her mouth to give him pleasure lit a fire in her veins. She remembered the sheer size of the length in his trousers. Was the whole thing supposed to go in her mouth? Would she not choke? What was she supposed to do if it went off?

Caroline had so many questions, and the only person she felt comfortable asking was half a world awa—

“Caroline.

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