Lady Of Skye by Cabot Patricia

Author:Cabot, Patricia [Cabot, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical, Chick-Lit
ISBN: 9780743421478
Google: hJkQLZonYBAC
Amazon: 0743410270
Goodreads: 640122
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2000-12-26T00:00:00+00:00

15

To say that Brenna was surprised when Reilly Stanton kissed her—and so very adamantly—would be an understatement of the grossest kind. She had rather thought, when he’d been looking at her so intently just before she’d started playing, that that was what he meant to do.

And sad to say, her heart had begun to pound in her ears at the very thought of his mouth coming anywhere close to hers. She was not wearing a corset, having no maid to help her lace it, but she suddenly felt as breathless as if she’d been stuffed into one that was much, much too tight.

She tried berating herself. How could she allow herself to get so giddy and breathless just because a man looked as if he might like to kiss her? Why, she ought to be furious, outraged with him for even thinking of trying anything so impertinent.

But then she’d felt his arm slip around her, and . . .

Well, it had been as if the sun had come out after a month of rain. Her skin began to hum—or at least, that’s how it seemed—and she became aware of parts of her body that she normally never gave a thought to. Like her ear lobes, for instance. Why Reilly Stanton putting his arm around her should make her conscious of her ear lobes, she could not imagine, but there it was. Suddenly, they felt heavy and tingly at the same time. . . .

And the problem was, it wasn’t only her ear lobes that felt that way. Other parts of her body—parts she would vastly have preferred not to think about—felt the same way.

Lord Glendenning had put his arm around her dozens of times. Lord Glendenning had even kissed her. But her body had never, ever reacted to Lord Glendenning’s advances the way it did when Reilly Stanton curled his hand around her waist. Her heart had begun to hammer even more loudly—so loudly she’d become convinced he could hear it, and would recognize her weakness for him.

Because yes, she admitted it now, she had a weakness for Reilly Stanton, a powerful weakness, and it wasn’t just because he had the gentlest hands she had ever encountered, hands that had moved so expertly over little Hamish MacGregor when he’d been unconscious, hands that had been so deft and confident as they’d maneuvered hers over the pianoforte’s keys.

No, Reilly Stanton, with his quick smile and even quicker wit, his gentle hands and even gentler dark eyes, was quite the most appealing man she had ever seen, and she’d wanted him to kiss her, wanted him to kiss her in the worst way. . . .

And that powerful longing frightened her senseless.

And so she’d started singing the most ridiculous song she could think of, both to keep him from kissing her—because she couldn’t let him kiss her; if she did, she’d start kissing him back, and she was almost certain she wouldn’t be able to bring herself to stop—as well as to keep him from hearing the booming of her heart.

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