Perfume of Paradise (The Louisiana History Collection Book 5) by Blake Jennifer

Author:Blake, Jennifer [Blake, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Steel Magnolia Press
Published: 2012-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

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HE LOWERED HER TO HER FEET and brushed his lips across her forehead. He quickly shrugged from his coat, then spread it on the flagstones and went to one knee on its silk lining. Taking her hand, he drew her down to kneel before him. He lifted her other hand also, and pressed both to his lips in turn. His warm breath feathered the sensitive skin of their backs as he said quietly, “Je t’ adore. I adore you, not just because you are more generous than any woman I have ever known, but because you are more honest.”

Elene’s chest swelled with pent breath and pain. It was so nearly a declaration, but one made for the wrong reason. She was not honest, had never been, even from the first. But she could not tell him, not now when they were so close within the sheltering shadows of the soft summer night. She could offer an apology hidden in a caress, however, one to soothe her misgivings even if it could not relieve them.

Gently she released her hands. With fingers that were unsteady, she touched his chest, smoothing over the linen that covered its muscular hardness. His cravat had been loosened and she slipped it free and let it fall. Finding the stud that held the collar of his shirt, she worked it from its hole, aware at the same time of his hands upon her back, tracing her shape underneath her nightgown. She set the stud aside and opened his collar to spread the placket of his shirt wide, exposing his chest to below his breastbone.

Ryan drew in his breath as she lowered her head to brush the dark, curling growth of hair about his paps with her tongue. Her hair spilled across her shoulders, falling in a pale swath to rest on his hard thigh where he could feel its warm weight. Caught in enchantment, he reached to tangle his fingers among the shimmering filaments that caught the starlight with a silver-gold sheen.

An odd exultation moved like wine along Elene’s veins. He wanted her, needed her, felt for her some degree of emotion, however fleeting, that he called adoration. There was no compulsion for him this time. In that knowledge there was for her a sense of glorious freedom, as if some restraint had been removed. She could give joy as well as receive it, and that realization made her bold.

She flicked her tongue over the hard, tight bud of his nipple. Feeling the shudder of pleasure that rippled over his skin, she smiled to herself in rising gladness. At the same time, she slid her hands in slow exploration down the taut, muscle-padded stretch of his rib cage to his waist and began to tug his shirt from his breeches.

He accommodated her, stripping his shirt free and drawing it off over his head in a single, sure movement. The crisp linen made a soft, whispering sound as it landed behind him. He reached for her then, cupping

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