Hint of Desire by Lavinia Kent

Author:Lavinia Kent [Kent, Lavinia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Arthur lay stunned as he watched Lily’s eyelids drift closed. This night had been a revelation to him. He didn’t know where his thoughts should even begin.

Lily kissed like a dream, her passions flaming.

Lily froze like an icicle.

Lily had been raped.

Lily needed his help.

Lily needed him.

If Worthington hadn’t been dead already, Arthur would have been tempted to kill him himself. And St. Aubin, if Arthur’s growing suspicions of the man were correct . . . No matter how he ran through it, only St. Aubin would have motive to harm Simon. If Simon were gone St. Aubin would be the new earl. Still, there was a long road between suspicion and proof. It was possible that Worthington had some other enemy who now pursued Lily and Simon. Worthington had been the type to run up debts, and with debts came enemies.

These thoughts ran through his mind in an unrelenting cycle. It seemed impossible that the petite, fragile women curled against him could have endured a cold, unloving husband who gave so little thought to her own desires. It tore at him to imagine the anguish Lily must have undergone, and survived.

Arthur let his hands trail through the luscious curls that tangled about him, seemingly of their own accord. He wrapped one strand about a finger and considered her delicate beauty. He turned and examined the small woman curled at his side. He would show her he was not a monster, but merely a man, with a man’s desires. So many of her fears started here, in the marriage bed, he would have to show her it was a place of warmth, comfort and even intimacy, not a den of ghoulish nightmares.

He drew her more tightly to him, reveling in the feeling of her long slim limbs wrapping about his own. As if drawn to his warmth, she sidled against him, slipping one long leg between his own. His body stirred at her closeness. His fingers slowly curled into a hard fist as she continued to glide slowly, touching him. He fought against his own frustration as what he desired drew ever closer, while the deep and treacherous chasm of the past loomed right ahead.

And so, the first slim fingers of dawn found him once again giving Ganesh his head, but this time not the slightest trace of ennui clung to his soul.

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