Her Defiant Heart by Goodman Jo

Author:Goodman, Jo [Goodman, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2013-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Christian decided it was possibly the most brazen proposal he had ever received. This was the woman he thought of as a fragile and delicate spirit? He stared at her.

Jenny unlaced her shoes and kicked them off. "Don't mistake this for a declaration of love," she said, rolling down her stockings. She buried her feet beneath the goose-down comforter. "All I want from you is... how did you phrase it? Oh, yes... carnal pleasure."

A muscle worked in Christian's lean jaw as his ugly words were impassively hurled back at him. She was watching him through the long, heavy fan of her lashes, her head tilted to one side. A sigh parted her lips, and her hand paused in the act of lowering her chemise strap. Her thumb made a light pass across her collarbone, drawing Christian's eyes.

"That's what you said, isn't it?" she asked softly. "Not to make it pretty? Well, I'm not."

Christian's eyes darkened, but remnants of his earlier anger lingered and turned in on himself. He could have told her that when he was with her, that when his body joined hers and the sensations of their coupling were shuddering through him, it was so exquisite, so beautiful that it made him afraid. He did not believe he had done anything in his life to deserve the kind of pleasure he had known with her. He said none of it, though. He could not expose more of himself to Jenny Holland. She already knew too much. She had seen his paintings.

"Christian?" She said his name with a whisper-soft huskiness. "Should I go how?"

He shook his head, reaching for her wrist. "But perhaps we should go to my room," he said on the same thread of sound. "It's too cold for you here."

"Warm me."

"Oh, God, Jenny Holland." Christian tugged on her wrist so that the gap between them was narrowed. "I will. I will." His palms stroked her arms from wrist to shoulder, suffusing her skin with heat, but it was his mouth on her lips and his tender, tasting caress that warmed her from the inside out.

The embers of desire were buried deep and faintly lit, but Christian found them, nurtured them, and brought out the fiery response that Jenny wanted to know again. He brushed her mouth lightly, teasing her with gentle kisses at the corners of her lips until she opened her mouth and asked for something more. The tip of his tongue made a damp outline of her lips, traced the ridged barrier of her teeth, and finally dipped into her mouth deeply and took up the sweet battle with hers.

He kissed her temples. The dark strands of her hair tickled his mouth. There was nothing more fragrant, more alluring than her soft, sable hair. Christian found it difficult not to tell her that. He rubbed his cheek against her instead and was awash in the silky cascade that was Jenny's hair. His teeth caught the lobe of her ear. He tugged and heard the tiny catch in her breathing.

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