How to Disgrace a Lady by Bronwyn Scott

Author:Bronwyn Scott [Scott, Bronwyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical
ISBN: 9781408943717
Goodreads: 18945060
Publisher: Mills & Boon Historical
Published: 2012-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Merrick cut through the water, cleaving it with powerful strokes in the hopes that if he swam hard enough, long enough, he could exorcise the heat she raised in his body, the turmoil she raised in his mind. Alixe Burke had become dangerous to his sense of well-being.

He had not meant for things to progress as they had that afternoon. He had not risen in the morning with any thought of showing Alixe pleasure on a picnic blanket beneath a summer sky. Merrick flipped on to his back and began a long, methodical stroke that took him across the lake. If it had been an instructive interlude or a love-game of the type he played with his myriad women, he would have a proper perspective for understanding what had transpired—the generating of physical pleasure. But that had not been what had happened.

She had roused to him with a natural passion devoid of coy artifice. Those sherry eyes of hers had widened in awe and amazement, her untutored hips had sought release against his with no concept of what they were asking of him; the artlessness of her wanting had been a heady aphrodisiac to his jaded sense of sexual conquest. And it had fired him beyond reason, driven him to answer the calls of her body in ways she wanted, but could not imagine without him.

His body remembered every moment of her pleasure, of her body arching into his, her hips bucking against his hand. Even now, hours later, the memory of it was burned into his body, the simple recalling of it enough to bring to life a hard-suppressed erection. He had told her the truth. Touching her had nothing to do with lessons. He had touched her because he’d wanted to, because he was enchanted with her storytelling. Her face had come alive as she’d spun her tales of Eanswythe. He could have lain on the blanket and listened to her all afternoon. His London cronies would have laughed to see the sophisticated Merrick St Magnus captivated by the simple tales of country saints. For that matter, they would have laughed to see him with hammer in hand building fair booths.

But it had seemed right. He’d spun a fantasy for himself today with Alixe at the centre of it. It had been a lovely escape to imagine himself a country squire working with his neighbours, casting a glance every now and then to where his pretty wife chatted with other women. It was a perfect image, free of the entanglements of his debauched ways. The man in his fantasy didn’t wager on how many women he could bed in a year. The man in his fantasy needed only one woman and had the ability to remain constant. That man would not grow bored in the country as Merrick most certainly would.

Merrick floated on his back, his body exhausted, his mind still restless. It was an escape, nothing more. London waited and with it his regular life, his social rounds, his endless search for wagers and women that would keep his pockets lined.

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