Her Shock Pregnancy Secret by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488032134
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
Published: 1988-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

KATE woke up first. At some stage during the night, she must have got into bed with Silas, and now he was lying with his head against her chest, his breath just moving the lace that trimmed her nightgown.

As she tried to ease herself away, he opened his eyes.

‘So you weren’t just a dream,’ he said quietly.

Kate had never felt more uncomfortable in her life. He had the excuse of being gripped by a fever which had rendered him virtually incapable of knowing either what he was saying or what he was doing. She had no such excuse.

‘I…I didn’t mean to stay,’ she gulped nervously, and to her chagrin her throat clogged with tears.

‘I’m glad you did,’ Silas told her softly, and then, easing himself slightly away from her, he lifted one of her hands to his mouth and pressed a kiss into her palm.

Her skin tingled, vibrating with a thousand dangerous sensations. His face was rough with overnight beard, his lips hard and warm. She felt his tongue touch the pads of her fingertips, and she shuddered in reaction, her breath escaping on a hurried gasp.

‘Gentle, compassionate Kate.’ He looked at her wryly. ‘I hope I didn’t make too much of a fool of myself.’

‘No. You…I…’

She was breathing far too fast, desperate suddenly to put a safe distance between them. It had seemed quite reasonable last night to take a feverish, vulnerable Silas into her arms and to hold him as she had so often held their daughter, but this Silas, who was looking at her with clear gold eyes, who was still holding her hand and measuring the rapid thud of her pulse with his thumb, must surely be aware of exactly what was happening to her. He could hardly fail to be aware of it, she acknowledged blushingly, knowing without having to look down at her body that, where the fabric of her nightgown was flattened against her breasts, the taut arousal of her nipples was clearly visible.

He had seen it, she recognised, her breath catching in her lungs as his gaze dipped to her breasts and stayed there.

‘Beautiful Kate,’ he said softly, and then his hand cupped the soft weight of her breast and his thumb traced the hard outline of its peak. Her breath became locked in her lungs and she was trembling with a mixture of arousal and embarrassment.

‘Silas, please,’ she began, but he wasn’t listening to her.

His weight pressed her down into the bed, his hand cupping her breast possessively, his mouth a mere breath away from her own, as he breathed roughly, ‘Kate, it’s been so long. Too long.’

And then he was kissing her. Not as she remembered him kissing her, but as a man kisses a woman who has been greatly desired and greatly longed for, easing her mouth under his own and keeping it there while he fed ravenously on the sweetness of it.

His hands left her body to thread into her hair and hold her head still on

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