Lady in Red by Karen Hawkins

Author:Karen Hawkins [Hawkins, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780060584061
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2005-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

God, but her kisses were as heated as his thoughts. A sound escaped her, and he couldn’t tell if it was surprise or pleasure, but she slipped into his arms as if made for him. She was lithe and curvy, her body begging for his touch. He leaned back, tugging her up against him until she lay between his legs.

His cane, long since forgotten, fell with a clatter against the hardwood floor. The sound broke the spell. He drew back to look at her, then realized his mistake too late. Everything about her encouraged him to continue. Her eyes were slumberous, drugged with passion. Her mouth, swollen and red from his kisses, parted with her rapid breathing. She lay nearly atop him, on her knees between his legs. Her breasts pressed against his chest, her sinuous arms linked around his neck.

Only now, when he neared total collapse of any control he might have had, did he realize how dire his situation had become. This was very, very bad. How had things gotten so beyond him, so quickly? He had only himself to blame. Not for a moment should he have surrendered to his fantasies of her. Fantasies he realized now he’d been entertaining since he met her months ago.

The knowledge spurred him to wedge distance between them on one hand, but warred with a deeper instinct to finish what he’d started. An instinct Jane seemed to share, for she seemed more than eager for them to continue, her hands never stilling, her mouth now trailing a deliciously sensual line along his jaw. Seated as he was, he remained virtually her prisoner. He was either incredibly fortunate, or terribly doomed.

He feared he was both.

She pressed kisses down his neck and he let her, his hands moving of their own accord along her spine to cup her hips. He shifted her then nearly groaned when his strained erection met the apex of her thighs. Despite his breeches and her layers of skirts, he couldn’t help thrusting against her. She moaned in his ear, her hands clutching at his shoulders. The sound almost broke him. Control fast slipped through his fingers, and he wrapped her tight against him, holding her still, in an effort to regain some stable ground.

Their breathing was labored, and when she looked up at him expectantly, he realized—whether she did or not—that all responsibility for what happened next was all on him. Not perhaps the best scenario for either of them. She moved to kiss him again, and it took every ounce of willpower to stop her and gently push her away.

She sat back on her heels. Cool air rushed in to replace the heat of her. “What’s wrong?”

Everything. What he said was, “Nothing.”

The smile she gifted him contained such encouragement, if he’d been any other man, she’d be on the floor with her skirts over her head and him pounding inside her.

Against all logic he both envied and despised such a man.

With a bit more force than

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