Not Just a Governess by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Regency, Historical Romance, Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781472003973
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

She tasted of honey and brandy, her lips warm and compliant as they moved shyly beneath his, and her skin smelt of the strawberries and cream which had been their dessert at dinner earlier. A heady combination that Adam could not, did not, want to resist and one that all too quickly took him to a height of desire he had not felt in a very long time.

Too long, Adam realised with a groan as he very quickly became completely engorged inside his breeches, thickening and lengthening to an almost painful degree as he continued to kiss and taste, to tenderly nibble on the fullness of Elena’s bottom lip. His tongue ventured into the moist and heated cavern of her mouth, seeking out each sensitive and secret place as he heard her breath catch in her throat and felt her gloved fingers reach up to cling to the broad width of his shoulders.

His arms tightened about her and his lips continued to devour and claim hers as he pressed his burgeoning thighs against Elena’s much softer ones, as he sought, craved, to find some relief for the fierce ache of his pulsing erection.

A relief he could not, should not, press upon the woman who had borne so much of his temper these past few weeks, only to then be ignored, before becoming a willing listener this evening to his torments, both past and present!

A woman Adam employed as governess to his daughter.

And a woman who could not afford, quite literally, to deny the liberties he was taking, for fear that he might dismiss her.

He knew that his disastrous marriage to Fanny had made him cold and occasionally cruel, but was he now guilty of also becoming a man one who took advantage of unprotected females? That thought did what nothing else could and threw a bucket of ice-cold water on his libido.

Elena stumbled as Adam suddenly wrenched his mouth from hers before holding her at arm’s length, those grey eyes blazing darkly in the fierceness of his face. She blinked in an effort to clear her muddled brain, having been totally swept away by the rage of passion created by the taste and feel of Adam’s mouth possessing hers. ‘I do not understand. Did I do something wrong?’

His expression was harsh as he released her to step back. ‘It is I who am the one in the wrong,’ he rasped harshly. ‘I should not have—I apologise for—’ He gave a self-disgusted shake of his head. ‘You have my permission to slap my face, without fear of reprisals.’

Elena noted the tension in his shoulders and spine, the nerve pulsing in his tightly clenched jaw and the fierce glitter of those dark-grey eyes, his hands once against clasped tightly behind his back. She also recognised that he had just invited her to inflict physical retribution upon him in the same way that his wife had once taken such pleasure in doing.

‘I could not possibly do that. But perhaps you regret what just happened?’ she queried gently.

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