Innocence by Elise de Sallier

Author:Elise de Sallier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Writer's Coffee Shop

Chapter 20

Oh . . . My . . .

Halting in the middle of the bedroom, Nathaniel let Lisa slide down his body until her feet touched the floor.

“Don’t ever leave me,” he said roughly, and her gaze shot to his face. It was as if he had intuited her thoughts.

“Lisa?” He frowned when she didn’t respond. “Now that I’ve found you, I could never let you go. Living without you would be untenable.”

“For me, too.” She lifted up on tiptoes, kissing him tenderly in place of the commitment she could not give. Wanting to distract him, and eager to feel his skin beneath her fingers, she fumbled with the buttons on his shirt.

He hissed, watching her slip them free one by one before he pulled the shirt over his head to toss it aside.

Lisa reached for him, but he turned her in his arms to face the dressing table, their images reflected in the mirror.

“You are utterly adorable.” He leaned down to kiss the curve of her shoulder. “My heart nearly stopped when I saw you in this dress. For a moment, I thought I might have accidentally deflowered a society maiden, not a delectable girl who can only benefit from our alliance.”

Lisa flinched at how close he had come to the truth.

“Don’t worry. I will take care of you. I promise.”

After releasing the buttons that ran down the back of her gown, Nathaniel let it fall from her shoulders to balloon around her feet. With her hair piled high, and dressed in a sheer, silk chemise—sans corset, which, of course, added credence to his belief she was of common heritage—she felt both vulnerable and desirable.

“Lisa,” he whispered hoarsely.

Capturing the hem of her chemise, he swept it over her head leaving her standing in a pair of lacy pantaloons, silk stockings, slippers and nothing else. He cupped her bare breasts, and she moaned.

“You like it when I do that.”

His gaze met hers in the mirror, and Lisa nodded, her hands rising to cover his. When he turned her in his arms, she rose up on tiptoe, eager for his kiss. She couldn’t get enough of his taste, his warmth, the feel of his hands cupping her bottom and pulling her against him.

“You’re so lovely.” He breathed the words against her lips, and she angled her head so he could kiss the curve of her neck, another favourite place. When her hands trailed a path down his taut belly to the waistband of his breeches, he lifted his head to watch. But when her fingers went to work on the buttons, he stilled her hands.

“You don’t want me to touch you?” She looked up at him uncertainly.

“I would love for you to touch me, but let’s leave that for a little later, shall we?”

“Why?” Lisa pouted. “I want to please you.”

“You do please me, immensely, but I have plans for tonight and a promise to fulfil.”

“What promise?”

She stroked her fingers back up his belly, and a tremor ran through him.

“I promised to kiss every single square inch of your body.

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