His Savage Sweet (Tales of the Harlot's Guide Book 2) by Caroline Lee
Author:Caroline Lee [Lee, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-20T18:30:00+00:00
Chapter 6
Wulf
I think Iâm in love.
Absolutely everything Iâd learned about Anna told me she would be a good match for me: the perfect size, the perfect shape. She was tall enough, curvy enough I didnât have to worry about breaking herâ¦and was witty as hell.
She was intelligent in the way I could appreciate; not like Findlay, with his nose in a book all the time, but intelligent about the world and people around her. She worked for a living, and I could respect thatâ¦even before Iâd had a taste of her âworkâ.
I was beginning to think I was trying to talk myself into marrying her for her fig-and-blue-cheese tarts.
Marriage?
Thatâs what Father wanted, after all. Us brothers to find wives. He didnât say they had to be proper wives, ladies of elegance and breeding like Rickardâs Clarissaâ¦just wives who would make us happy.
Iâd spent the last weeks beating myself upâsometimes literallyâbecause I couldnât stand the way Iâd used Anna. I wasnât that kind of man; I wasnât like Rickardâfookinâ perfect Rickardâwho liked his women on their knees. I wasnât like Findlay, whom I doubted knew what to do with a woman. I liked women who could meet me head-on, who took their own pleasure from my body.
And she owned her own copy of A Harlotâs Guide.
The memory of Anna lying on that table, fingering her own clit, had been simultaneously the biggest arousal and the biggest moment of guilty remorse of my life.
Iâd used her, and while it had been amazing, the way she knew how to bring herself pleasureâ¦it also meant I hadnât been the one to do that for her. To bring her pleasure. She didnât need me.
Iâd used her body, and hadnât had the decency to apologize or bring her to her peakâ¦and sheâd still agreed to dinner with me!
Tonight, everything Iâd learned about her told me I wanted another chance. Another chance to fook her, to make love to herâ¦to spend the rest of my life setting things right.
âMarry me, Anna.â
She choked on her salad.
I handed her a glass of water and grinned while she gulped it down.
Finally, she seemed to compose herself. âWhat did ye say?â she asked, half-laughing, half-shocked.
I suppose I shouldnât have sprung it on her like that.
I winced. âI asked ye to marry me, although Iâll admit it was an awkward proposal.â
âYe want me toâ?â She cut off her question, laughing even harder now. âI cannae marry ye!â
Well, shite. Asking a woman to marry him certainly could destroy a manâs ego. âWhy noâ?â
âBecause yeâre a prince. Iâm one of yer servants.â
âNay,â I corrected. âYeâre a brilliant pastry chef who happens to work for my family. And ye ken I love food.â
âAye, but ye donât loveâ¦well, me.â
Thatâs where she was wrong. âI care for ye, Anna.â
At her scoff of disbelief, I reached across the table to snag her hand and began to run little circles into her palm.
Just as when Iâd offered her my arm in the corridor of the servantâs wing, she gave a little shudder at my touch.
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