How to Woo a Reluctant Lady by Sabrina Jeffries

Author:Sabrina Jeffries
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2011-01-18T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Minerva gaped at Giles. Surely she’d misheard him. “What?”

“Your clothes. Take them off.” His eyes shone with promise as he shed his coat and waistcoat, then tossed them down on the blanket. “You can swim in your shift and drawers. They would dry in no time.”

“But my hair—”

“Stuff it up beneath that cap of yours afterward, and no one will be the wiser.”

Heat rose in her cheeks as he removed his boots, then his trousers and stockings. This was a bit more than she’d bargained for.

Then again, the idea of stripping down to her shift, of being in a pond in the outdoors, half-naked, gave her delightful shivers. How did he always manage to find the one thing that would make her want to be wicked?

Especially when he yanked his shirt off over his head and tossed it onto the blanket. My oh my oh my. She’d seen her brother’s bare chests by accident a time or two, so she knew how a man’s chest was supposed to look, but a shirtless Giles was a wonder to behold. He had the most glorious muscles, covered with a sprinkling of brown curls that narrowed to a line down his belly, disappearing beneath his drawers.

His prominently bulging drawers.

She jerked her gaze up to find him looking her over, too, as if imagining her undressed. “I’d do almost anything to see you in your shift, darling. Hell, I’d do almost anything just to see your hair unbound.”

He made her feel like a wanton. It was a feeling she rather enjoyed. “You mean, like this?” she said and removed her bonnet and cap, then took her pins out one by one and dropped them into her bonnet.

His eyes darkened to slate as her hair tumbled down about her shoulders. “God, it’s even more beautiful than I imagined.”

He strode up to fill his hands with her hair, and his voice dropped to a husky murmur. “I’ve been waiting to see your hair like this for six years, ever since that house party at our estate in Berkshire. Do you remember? The one you attended with your brothers?”

Her pulse leapt. “I’m surprised that you remember.”

Looping her hair over one shoulder, he turned her around so he could work loose the fastenings of her gown. “I can’t forget,” he admitted. “The first night we were there, you wore an elegant dinner dress that was cut low enough to bring any man to his knees.”

He pulled her gown down until it fell into a puddle of muslin at her feet, then dispensed with her single petticoat. “Your hair was put up, but you had one long sausage curl draped just here.” He trailed his fingers down the front of her from shoulder to corset, making her blood heat. “I had this fanciful notion that if I just pulled it, your entire coiffure would unravel like a skein of yarn, and I’d finally see you with your hair down.”

For a moment, the thrum of need in his voice seduced her.

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