Maids with Blades by Glynnis Campbell

Author:Glynnis Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Glynnis Campbell
Published: 2006-03-29T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Drunk on laughter, Helena couldn’t muster up proper outrage at the varlet for kissing her against her will. True, she’d gotten her vengeance, discovering to her glee that Colin was as ticklish as she. But now, giddy and breathless, she found his advances not so unwelcome. Indeed, a part of her, probably that “wicked, wicked” part, perversely longed to nestle even closer to the trespassing knave.

Her blood had grown warm, and her heart throbbed. She grinned, feeling the way she did after a good sword fight, as if she glowed with the light of a hundred candles.

She could have escaped him if she’d wanted to. But she only half-wanted to. There was nothing Helena loved better than battling a worthy foe.

She squirmed as he lowered his head to hers, and his moist breath teased at her ear. “You,” she murmured, “are a vile beast.”

He answered with a growl and a bite to her neck.

She gasped in surprise.

“Beast I am, my lady,” he agreed, “and I shall devour you.”

He gnawed playfully at her throat. She writhed beneath him, caught in a strange place between laughter and longing, and not entirely sure she sought escape.

“I shall sniff out your most delectable parts.” He snuffled about her neck and ears, making her squeal. “And feed on your quivering flesh.” He nipped at the lobe of her ear, sparking her desire like flint striking iron. “I’ll sink my teeth into your delicate neck and drink the very life from you.” He ran his tongue along the pulsing vein beneath her ear, and she shivered as the sparks burst into quick flame.

“Nay,” she gasped.

“Oh, aye,” he said, licking lightly around the rim of her ear. She stiffened as fire instantly infused her blood.

She fought him then, or at least she thought she fought him. She twisted beneath him, making fists of her hands. Yet when he released her wrists and she might have shoved him away, instead she pushed against his chest with no more force than a child brushing aside a curtain. “Nay.”

“Aye.” His fingers tangled in her hair as he nibbled along her jaw. “Ah, here’s a choice morsel.” He lapped at the corner of her mouth, as if tasting her. Then he caught her lower lip gently between his teeth.

She didn’t mean to kiss him. It was an accident. She nipped tentatively at his lips, once, twice, innocently enough. But then her tongue slipped out to taste his mouth, and he lapped at hers in return. Suddenly she couldn’t stop. If he was a hungry beast, she was just as voracious. She slanted her mouth over his, pressing and sucking and licking, smashing her lips against his, demanding his response with such vehemence that she unwittingly bit him.

He jerked back. “Soft, my lady,” he said on a chuckle. “Who is the beast now?”

His remark stunned her for a moment. Mother of God, what had possessed her? She should be fighting him off. Were those her fists tangled in his shirt?

Then his mouth descended upon hers again, tender, inviting, and her concerns faded into a haze of desire.

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