Nocturnal Whispers by Caridad Piñeiro

Author:Caridad Piñeiro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Nocturne Bites
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“Stay? You want me to stay? The night? In your bed?” Alec said aloud, needing to convince himself that she hadn’t just made the unexpected offer.

With a gamin-like grin, she motioned to the sofa where they lay, half on, half off after their earlier activities. “Where else? This wouldn’t be all that comfortable.”

“Stay,” he repeated, not in question this time, but in wonder. He couldn’t remember the last time he had actually spent the night with a woman. Certainly not in the last century, and before that….

The last woman he had actually spent the night with and made love to had been driven mad within a week by nightly visits from the mummy.

But he hadn’t made love with Kate—although their interlude had been incredibly satisfying. And he could think of dozens of ways to satisfy her during the course of the night that would protect her from what consummation would bring. If she even wanted more, that was. He tempered his male ego in the hopes of convincing himself that staying the night was a totally logical, sensible and honorable thing to do.

“You don’t have to stay if you don’t want to,” Kate blurted, in response to his prolonged silence, and made a motion to leave his side.

He grasped her arm with light pressure and laid his index finger against her lips to silence her. “I want, Kate. It’s just that…what I’m feeling for you is something I didn’t expect,” he confessed.

She called to him on so many levels. Made him think of things that were no longer possible. Even if he would eventually leave her, maybe even betray her, for tonight he wanted to experience what being in love might be like.

Her grin was rueful. “You’re not quite what I imagined, either.”

“Should we retire to your room?” he asked, with such decorum that his mother would have at least been proud of his manners if nothing else.

“Let’s.” Kate slipped off him to stand on the carpeted floor. She held her hand out to him and he accepted her invitation and followed her into her bedroom.

It had been a long time since he had been in a woman’s boudoir, and yet some things didn’t change. The jewelry she had worn that day lay scattered across the top of the dresser, beside some makeup and perfume bottles.

Funny, he hadn’t smelled any foreign scent on her. For good measure, he took another sniff. Only the slightest hint of a flowery fragrance lingered beneath the aroma of woman and sex.

He tamped down the desire her scent aroused, and stopped at the side of her sleigh bed. Queen-size, although with his stature they would still be sleeping quite close.

If they slept.

Kate eased beneath the covers and waited for him to join her.

He did, climbing onto the mattress. It dipped with his weight and had Kate rolling against him.

Alec didn’t mind. He wrapped an arm around her back as she tucked her head beneath his chin. She rested one hand over his heart and slid her thigh over his with the ease of a longtime lover.

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