Just Wicked Enough by Heath Lorraine

Author:Heath, Lorraine [Heath, Lorraine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 2007-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

“So are you related to the king of France? His twin brother, perhaps? Locked away in the Bastille?” Jenny asked the man wearing a golden mask. Just as Kate had immediately recognized the costumed man wasn’t her Falconridge because of the way he moved through the crowd, so did Jenny recognize exactly who he was by his elegant gait. Earlier in the Season, she’d spent far too much time watching his movements. He’d intrigued her from the start. “Or are you simply a man too embarrassed to show his face?”

“The latter, if truth be told.”

“You’re not one for always telling the truth, though, are you? I don’t recall sending you an invitation, Ravensley.”

“Yet another reason why I chose to come as someone being treated unfairly.”

She scoffed. “You brought your misfortunes upon yourself. Does your sister know you’re here?”

“No. Louisa is spending far too much time gazing at her husband to notice much else. She seems happy enough.”

“I think they’re well suited, but that doesn’t excuse your deplorable behavior where they’re concerned.”

“I couldn’t bear the thought of you marrying him. Now I hear you’re to marry Pemburton.”

“You’ve been so absent from Society it’s a wonder you’ve heard anything at all.”

“I have my ways. Is it true?”

Although she was angry at him for the pain he’d brought Louisa, Jenny couldn’t deny she was grateful to have a moment to speak with him. From the first dance they’d shared at the beginning of the Season, she’d found herself drawn irrevocably toward him. But he was only an earl and her mother wanted her to be a duchess not a countess.

“In all likelihood he is the one I’ll marry, although he has yet to ask.”

All she could see were his blue eyes, but it was enough for her to read the sadness and disappointment he felt.

“Take a turn about the garden with me?” he asked.

She glanced around—

“No one’s paying any attention to us,” he said quietly. “We can slip out the back door over here and none will be the wiser.”

“I’ll be missed. I’m the hostess.”

“Five minutes, Jenny. It’s all I’m asking for.”

Nodding, she took another look around before slipping out the side door. She was so very much aware of his nearness, but then she was always aware of him.

Instead of leading her on to the path that wound through the garden, he gently took her arm and urged her toward the side of the house, into the shadows, where the gas lamps couldn’t touch them. She’d not been aware of him removing his mask, but quite suddenly she found herself wrapped in his arms, his mouth taunting and teasing hers with the memories of all the secretive liaisons they’d managed to arrange throughout the Season. He tasted heavenly, just as she remembered, and the warmth sluiced through her. He could deliver passion in ways that left her innocence intact, yet left her yearning for a few more moments with him.

He must have dropped his mask and removed his gloves, because his bare

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