My Reckless Surrender by Campbell Anna

Author:Campbell, Anna [Campbell, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-05-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Hot, salty liquid spurted into Diana’s mouth. Automatically, she swallowed. Her hand tightened on Ashcroft’s jerking shaft. His long groan of release echoed in her ears.

Her heart swelled with joy, and dazzling triumph streaked through her. What she did held a truth. A truth lacking in everything else between them, no matter how he touched her emotions and made her quake with ecstasy. She’d found something for him alone. Something outside her shabby bargain with Lord Burnley, something outside her own undeserved pleasure.

Although she’d discovered searing pleasure in arousing him until he couldn’t hold back.

His hand drifted down to tangle in the hair at her crown. He was shaking. The rhythmic clenching and unclenching of his fingers against her scalp became an ineluctable part of the wild sensations careering through her.

She drank him dry. Only then did she raise her head and stare along his flat belly and hard chest. His eyes were closed, his thick lashes quivering on his cheeks as he gasped. He looked like a man who had measured the outer reaches of sin and hadn’t yet returned to the bounds of reality.

She’d expected to be revolted, but when she’d taken Ashcroft in her mouth, she’d felt more a woman than ever before. She’d sensed both the power of his masculinity and the vulnerability of his humanity.

Slowly she rose, wiping her mouth. When she licked her lips, a new taste lingered. Ashcroft…

She knelt at his side as she had when she’d begun. In an exhausted caress, his hand slid from her hair to lie open at his side. He looked like he couldn’t move to save himself from a tidal wave.

“Take off that damned dress.” A sliver of green shone between his lashes, and his breathing gradually steadied.

“Clothing gives me the advantage.” She found decadent gratification in having this man, omnipotent outside this room, naked and at her mercy.

A reminiscent smile curved his lips. Her heart, which had only just resumed its normal rate, battered her ribs, then set off on another race.

“You don’t need special advantages,” he said softly. “I’m all yours.”

At last he looked directly at her. His eyes were bright jade. They were always that color when he was happy. It was an unwelcome shock to realize how well she’d come to know him. Another twist in the skein of inescapable intimacy.

“If I’d guessed that was how to vanquish you, I’d have done it much earlier,” she said lightly, even as her blood pounded fast and hard with excitement.

Sudden concern shadowed his gaze, and he rested one hand on her thigh. It was where he’d touched her before, curling his fist in her skirts, but this contact was soothing, comforting…affectionate. After the passion, this gesture emerged from a different world. A world beyond the deception and desire that trapped her.

“Are you all right?” He met her eyes with an expression as deep as the ocean.

She tried to stop her wayward heart melting. It was too late. Her defenses crumbled more quickly than a wafer dipped in hot tea.

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