Romancing Lady Stone (A School of Gallantry Novella) by Marvelle Delilah

Author:Marvelle, Delilah [Marvelle, Delilah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Historical Romance
Publisher: Delilah Marvelle Productions, LLC
Published: 2013-08-15T22:00:00+00:00

Evening

They had only left the room twice throughout the day. Once to share another meal and a tankard of ale at one of the wooden tables downstairs and the other time to soak in the bathhouse together, where they washed each other’s hair and lathered each other in soap in between ardent kisses and sex. The remainder of the day, they lounged in each other’s arms and talked like friends of old, discussing their childhoods, and how life had not exactly turned out the way they had hoped. They laughed at the words Cecilia couldn’t pronounce in Russian as Konstantin playfully traced Russian words onto her bare legs. They also made love. Repeatedly.

Getting robbed was the best thing to have ever happened to her.

Cecilia nestled against Konstantin’s nude warmth as she watched the last of the light fade from the lantern with the curling of smoke, leaving them in complete darkness. Tomorrow evening, when they arrived into Saint Petersburg and called upon the theatre for her son’s address, everything she had shared with Konstantin would shimmer away into a dream. She would have to return to being what she really was: a titled lady and a mother.

It wasn’t fair. For the first time in her life, she wished she hadn’t been born a lady.

Konstantin brushed a finger across her arm in the darkness. “After we find your son, I will not be able to stay in Saint Petersburg. I have to leave for London.”

She swallowed against the tightness overtaking her throat. Even he knew their time together was at an end. Although a part of her ached, she had to cease pretending she was an ordinary woman. She wasn’t. She had a duty to her title, the estate, to her daughters and to her son and all of their respectable names. What she wanted did not exist in the realm of the ton. It never had and it never would. She had known that since she was fifteen.

He smoothed her hair away from her throat. “I would like to see you again in London. As soon as you return from Russia. Is that possible?”

She paused, her heart pounding. “You want us to continue this?” she whispered against him in disbelief. How could they?

“Of course I want to. I…” He paused. “Are you telling me you are no longer interested?”

She pressed her cheek harder against his chest, cherishing how genuinely distraught he sounded. Maybe this didn’t have to end. Maybe they could quietly meet on the outskirts of London from time to time. No one needed to know. Men of the ton did it all the time. What made them special? She wanted him. She wanted this. He made her feel beautiful. He himself was beautiful. “We will find a way to see each other. I promise.”

A smile appeared in his voice. “Good.”

In the darkness, between her own pulse and his, the words ‘Eternally yours at midnight’ popped into her head. She sat up against him in the darkness. “I forgot to ask.

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