Sabrina Jeffries - Swanlea Spinsters 03 by After The Abduction

Author:After The Abduction
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-11-25T23:56:15+00:00

Chapter 14

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

Horace’sOdes,embroidered on a doll dress by Juliet Laverick for a servant’s child With mixed feelings, Sebastian watched her stroll out into the clearing. The little minx had certainly played him well this time. He should have called her bluff, told her she was welcome to blow her head off with any of his pistols she preferred.

But he hadn’t. And why? Because, devil take her, after a week without her he’d snatch any foolish, reckless chance to be near her again. He’d suffered too many days of constant hard labor designed to pummel her out of his mind, all the while knowing she was somewhere in Charnwood cementing her hatred of him. He’d lain too many nights awake and aroused, remembering her winsome smile, her luscious mouth, her little gasps of pleasure.

And after those endless, agonizing nights, he’d spent far too many dawns pacing outside her bedchamber, wondering why he couldn’t simply walk in, waken her with a kiss, tell her all, and order her to marry him.

Uncle Lew was right—he could no more stay away from Juliet than he could give up Charnwood.

That’s why he’d started spending his time out here, far from temptation.

And she was right, too—he was afraid of letting something slip. He was afraid of lettingeverything slip.

All because he wanted her, because he was rapidly sliding into the abyss that had swallowed up his foolish father.

Oh, and didn’t she know his weakness, too, coming here in all her splendor to torture him. Look at her Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html

standing in the clearing—a golden Greek goddess in apple green, spreading spring with every sunny smile. Unfortunately, Greek goddesses had a dark side, and he’d uncovered hers.

So what trick did she have up her gold-bedecked sleeve this time? Why—though his mind screamed,

“Run!”—was he standing here waiting to find out?

Because he was curious. Because he could never resist a challenge.

Because he wanted her so badly he’d risk anything for an afternoon with her.

Tearing his gaze from the open door, he doused the fire in the forge, then hurried to the basin to scrub off soot and grime. He dragged on a shirt and tucked it into his breeches hastily. On his way out the door, he stopped at his gun cabinet, unlocked it, and withdrew a case of dueling pistols.

By the time he joined her, she was humming tunelessly to herself, as if ladies took lessons in shooting from half-dressed rogues every day, as if nothing else had ever passed between them.

Good. If they could be civil and no more, perhaps he’d make it through this without wanting to strangle her…or drag her into his arms and kiss every sweet inch of her delectable body.

She turned as he approached, and her gaze fixed on the open neck of his shirt. “I thought you were going to dress.”

“This is as much as I wear when I’m working. If you expected formal attire, my lady, you shouldn’t have come.”

“It’s fine.” Her gaze drifted down the front of him, and she colored inexplicably.

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