Last Night's Scandal by Loretta Chase

Author:Loretta Chase [Chase, Loretta]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Historical Romance
ISBN: 9780061632679
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Amazon: 0061632678
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2010-07-26T17:00:00+00:00

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“It was a momentary exuberance,” she said. “We were carried away. We were excited because we could have been killed.”

“The ‘I don’t know what came over me’ excuse,” he said thickly. “That’s a good one. That’

ll do.”

He looked so devastated.

Olivia understood why. He wasn’t like her. He had principles. He brimmed with duty and honor and loyalty—all the right things her stepfather had taught him.

Oh, she knew.

As to her—she didn’t need principles to be badly shaken. She’d come this close to losing her maidenhead. To him.

“It was my fault,” she said. “You know I’ve always lacked moral fiber. It’s the curse of the Dreadful DeLuceys. We’re all like that, except for my mother. But she’s an aberration.”

“We have to get out of here,” he said. “Now. ”

“We can’t,” she said. “The servants will take one look at us and know we had a Clandestine Encounter.”

“They won’t know any such thing,” he said. “They’ll think we had a skirmish with the cook.” She looked down at her dress. The bodice was twisted about. “This doesn’t look like a skirmish,” she said. She pulled it back into place and smoothed her skirts. Her hair was coming down, but it was no use asking Lisle to fix it.

“Go,” he said.

She moved past him and through the passage. He didn’t hurry ahead to open the door for her. She supposed he was waiting for his erection to subside. He had been prodigiously aroused—and she hadn’t needed to put her hand there to know how aroused, because it had been completely obvious, but. . .

She lacked moral fiber. Temptation came along and beckoned and she went, without a second thought.

He was far too exciting for an unprincipled woman to resist. He excited her even more when he was in a good mood than when, as at Stamford, he was in a bad one. This time her knees had completely melted away. If he had let go of her, she would have dissolved into a puddle of unresolved lust in the passage.

She supposed he’d applied the same diligence and persistence to the art of kissing that he’d employed to improve his drawing. The same way he’d trained himself to strike fire in an instant with a tinderbox.

And when he bedded a woman . . . but this was not the time to speculate.

She pushed the door open and walked into the hall.

Lisle followed a moment after.

There were all the servants, exactly as they’d been before, waiting in what once had been the screens passage.

They didn’t look depressed anymore.

They all wore the same look of keen interest.

She drew herself up, once again the chatelaine of the castle.

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