Loving the Duke (The Atwood Sisters) by Jessie Clever

Author:Jessie Clever [Clever, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798988191643
Publisher: Someday Lady Publishing LLC
Published: 2024-01-03T18:30:00+00:00

It was like an explosion.

She’d been kissing this man for more than a year. His lips were as familiar to her as her own, but just then it was as though she were kissing him for the first time. There was a newness to it, like a light had been thrown into an old and cramped room until all the shadows were disbanded.

She couldn’t think of him as the Duke of Norfolk’s brother. She could hardly think of him as Stephen. The kiss shattered any coherent thought she might have had, and instead her body was filled with only touch, taste, and sound. The way his beard scraped along the sensitive skin of her neck as he moved his lips over her jaw and lower, her head tipping greedily back. The way her skirts rustled as his hands clenched the fabric at her back as he dipped her into his arms. The sound of the fire crackling competing with her own ragged breath.

“Say it again,” he whispered against her ear before he sucked her earlobe between his lips, his teeth grating deliciously against her skin.

“Ah,” was the only sound she managed, and then it was more a strangled moan than an actual word.

“Say it,” he persisted, his voice guttural in her ear.

She pulled out of his arms and pressed her hands to his chest to hold him at bay. She wanted to look at him when she said the words. She wanted to see his eyes, watch how they darkened, watch his lips part just the slightest of degrees, watch his breathing hitch.

“I want to marry you, Stephen Marley,” she said. “Just as soon as possible.”

His eyes did change. They darkened, impossibly so, but the rest of him remained so still she wasn’t sure he heard her. He watched her with those hungry eyes as if she were prey, and something deep inside of her sparked to life, a fire burning low in her belly.

He had never looked at her like that before, like he wished to devour her. She should have backed away, fled for safety, but instead she stepped forward, lifted her face to his, beckoned his kiss.

And he took.

He took her, all of her.

She wasn’t sure who first moved toward the bed, but soon they tumbled upon it, and she was pinned beneath him, his weight pressing her into the bare mattress at her back.

Intimacy between them had always been so tame, but there was nothing tame about the way his hand tugged at her skirt, lifting it inch by hurried inch as his teeth bit small kisses along her jaw, down the line of her neck, and lower until she arched into him, unable to hold herself back.

He groaned somewhere around her collarbone, but by then his wandering hand had discovered her ankle and then her calf, and the fire he’d started inside of her with only his gaze burst into an inferno, and she clawed at his back, wrapping her other leg about him as best she could even when her skirts got in the way.

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