How To Distract a Duchess by Mia Marlowe

Author:Mia Marlowe [Marlowe, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Ten Talents Press
Published: 2012-04-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

It made no sense at all, and yet she couldn’t seem to stop herself. Artemisia kissed him again, parting her lips in invitation. Trevelyn rose to her challenge, claiming her mouth in a kiss that defined sweetness. Then the kiss changed, deepened, and the spark that always crackled between them burst suddenly into full flame.

His mouth moved over her lips, the hollow of her cheek, and the slender curve of her throat. Chinese fireworks danced over her skin, charging her body with roaming pinpoints of pleasure.

She put both hands on his cheeks and brought his face up to hers again.

Finally, she drew back to catch her breath.

“Oh, my!” she said, realizing the ungovernable power of what she’d unleashed.

“Quite.” He cocked an eyebrow at her. “We’re never going to be done with it, you know.”

He reached up and unbuttoned the first button on her blue serge bodice. Surely he must hear her heart, pounding like a coach-and-six in her chest.

“This thing between us,” he went on as his fingers trailed down to the next button. “Do you have any idea what it is?”

She shook her head, unwilling to trust her voice.

“Damn,” he said softly. “I hoped you could explain it to me.” He ran his hand through her hair, pulling out pins and loosing her curls as he went. “I’ve known men who become addicted to opium. It becomes an obsession for them. Now I understand their compulsion. You are my lotus blossom. From the first time I wandered into your studio, though I was initially there to find Beddington, you’ve been all I can think about. And when I’m with you, I can’t keep from wanting to touch you.”

He returned to her buttons and slid a finger in the small gap to tease the hollow between her breasts.

“You may not be happy about it, but you accomplished your goal,” she said as he bent his head to deliver a string of kisses from her jaw line to the hollow at the base of her throat. Her pulse jumped. “You’ve found Mr. Beddington.”

His chuckle was a low rumble. “Yes, I suppose I have. I just didn’t expect to want to take the fellow to my bed.”

“That is where this is leading, isn’t it?” She undid the next button herself, baring the tops of her breasts to his admiring gaze. “To your bed.”

He nuzzled her ear and nipped at the tender lobe. “If there’s a God in heaven. . .”

“There is,” she assured him.

He kissed her again. Their souls mingled in a shared breath, wandering together unsure which body was their natural habitation.

Both, she decided.

He continued to unfasten her tight bodice while his mouth worked its magic on hers. Her breasts ached for his touch, straining at their whalebone prison. When he raised her to her feet to remove her jacket, she helped him out of his as well. One of the buttons on his starched shirt resisted her efforts and popped off, rolling across the floor unheeded.

“Sorry,” she said when he released her mouth.

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