Only For Her Honor by Christi Caldwell

Author:Christi Caldwell [Caldwell, Christi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chick-Lit, Historical, Love Stories, Rake, Regency, Romance, Victorian, Women's Fiction
Amazon: B07237FTTZ
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2017-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

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Desire raged through Lucas, still. A hungering for the spirited Eve Nelson, unlike any need he’d known for any woman before her. And surely in his desirous musings he’d merely imagined those four bold words, a declination of his orders.

“I said, we are not clear,” the lady repeated, taking a step toward him.

“Are you challenging me?” he whispered, reveling in her intrepidity. After being feared, reviled, and pitied, her bold, honest response made him feel alive. Alive in ways he’d been deadened. Until her.

Undaunted, Eve nodded. “Yes.” Then, given this lady’s tenacity, was it a wonder she’d defy him, when men under his command had only ever obeyed? She turned her palms up. “I know...knew, countless men who’d lost one or both legs. Other men, who lost use of their bodies from the waist down. Men whose movements kept them confined.” Eve came over in a rush of noisy skirts. “You have the ability to go out and—”

“Do you want this post?” he demanded tersely, staving off the lady’s flow of words. She pursed her lips. “Then, I suggest you attend your responsibilities.” And not challenge him to live again. To live, when he knew not how. How to step outside these walls and interact freely with people. He’d been a beast too long.

Eve stood, her chest rising and falling rapidly, as she bravely met his eyes. And for a sliver of a moment, he thought she’d challenge him. Then she dropped a stiff curtsy. “As you wish, Captain Rayne.”

Lucas flared his nostrils. She was the only bloody person who, since he’d returned, had looked at him. And now she’d strip him of that connection. He rose from the bed and strode over, his movements quick and jerky. “I ordered you not to call me—”

Whipping her head back, Eve planted her hands upon her hips. “You cannot demand I call you by your Christian name and then refuse to speak with me about things that matter. Either you are my employer or you’re Lucas. You cannot be—”

He caught her around the waist and covered her mouth with his. Eve went stiff in his arms, but then a breathless moan spilled past her lips as she melted against him. Lucas slid his tongue inside, swallowing that breathless sound of her desire. She tentatively touched the tip of hers to his, in an innocent gesture, and then all hesitancy melted away. They tangled tongues in a bold dance, simulating an expert thrust and parry.

She tasted of honey and chocolate, a blend of sweetness that he wanted to lose himself within. “Eve,” he breathed, breaking contact with her mouth. She cried out, but that sound of protest merged with a keening plea as he trailed his lips along her cheek, lower to her neck. Lucas cupped her buttocks and dragged her against him. A low, agonized groan stuck in her throat as she twined her fingers through his hair, angling his head to boldly meet his kiss. His shaft thrust hard and demanding against her flat belly.

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