Pride After Her Fall by Lucy Ellis

Author:Lucy Ellis [Ellis, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

LORELEI lay in his arms, her face obscured by the cascade of her pale curls, her delicate beige-tipped breasts rising and falling rapidly as she slept. Faint tear-marks still glistened on her cheeks.

She had wept. She had pressed her face into the curve of his shoulder and wept after the first time they’d come together. Her whole body had quaked in his arms. He told himself sometimes that could happen for a woman, and he felt in Lorelei that her emotions were very close to the surface. But what didn’t happen were the emotions he had felt...

Protective. Passionate. And stirred to action. Because those tears, he sensed, were not just a physical reaction to the intensity of what had happened in this bed.

So he had held her as she cried, and soothed her with his body, until somehow he was inside her again—and this time everything was so much slower, as if time itself had altered to fit the rhythm of their entwined bodies and he was giving her what she needed.

Sex he understood. Physical pleasure was one of the necessities of life—like water and sunlight and racing at high speeds around a track.

He wasn’t entirely sure he understood this. What had happened in this bed.

It was nearing dawn. The first fingers of light had come creeping through the shadeless windows and there were pale shadows across the covers. The day was approaching and he didn’t want it to come. He wanted to still time a little longer.

Watching her sleep, he felt almost as if he had captured some wild nymph from the woods and brought her to capitulation in his bed. She was so delicate, almost fey, he realised with a faint smile at the direction of his thoughts. She needed to be handled with care...and that should be sending warning bells off in his head, he thought, even as he stroked the silken curve of her bent arm.

His smile faded. Only hours ago he’d told himself this was merely the slaking of an appetite. He’d reasonably assumed his interest in her was powered by his sexual attraction to her body, as it had been with dozens of other women over the years.

But something else was at play here.

Even now he wanted to mark her so that other men would know she was his and wouldn’t lay claim to her.

What am I doing here?

He didn’t know.

Apart from the obvious, which was pressed against her hip and demanding his attention—or actually hers. It would be too easy to stroke her body to wakefulness and bury himself inside her, allow mindless pleasure to provide answers. But they had been doing that all night and his own stamina in itself had been a surprise. He’d never doubted his sexual prowess, but last night had been...rare.

Like the woman...

Nash touched the cluster of curls falling over one eye, hooking the silky weight behind her small ear, and she smiled sleepily, slowly opening her eyes. She lay there just looking at him and he was happy to let her look her fill.

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