Samantha James by Just One Kiss

Author:Just One Kiss
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

When she would have stepped away, his fingers curled into the soft flesh of her upper arm. “I tell you now, Elizabeth, I’ll not have a bastard in my home. Not my brother’s, or anyone else’s.”

Elizabeth jerked away. “If your opinion of me is so little, then why did you marry me?” A rash boldness seized her. “Oh, do forgive me! Because I possess exemplary bloodlines. Yet still you believe my behavior is that of a—a common slut, when you know very well that cannot be!”

Something flitted across his face, something that might have been fleeting guilt. Elizabeth experienced a brief moment of triumph.

“I know what was not the case before our marriage,” he allowed at last. “But I also know what I will not permit.”

“Oh yes, you made yourself quite clear. You said you would tolerate no lovers. Nor,” she informed him heatedly, “will I.”

He gazed at her as if she’d gone mad. “Precisely what does that mean?”

“I am not such a fool as you think!” she snapped. “The night of the opera there was a woman staring at you. I asked who she was. You told me she was no one that concerns me. But I’m afraid she does concern me when I know full well she is your mistress—and that’s where you’ve been spending all your nights!”

He neither denied it nor confirmed it. “Need I remind you of our wedding night? You made it quite clear I could not seek pleasure from you.”

Sheer bravado prompted her retort. “Nonetheless, I-I demand that you give her up! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to retire.”

Morgan said nothing. But his features were a mask of stone as he watched her march from the room, her nose tipped high as a queen’s.

Slowly he made his way to the library, where he sat in a velvet chair, long legs sprawled before him, his jacket discarded, his shirt unbuttoned. Darkness surrounded him, as black as his mood. Though his body was still, his mind was not.

Throughout the evening, no matter where he was—who he was with—his mind was encumbered by her. His wife. The wife who denied him in any way she could—in every way.

The longer he sat, the more the tumult within him squalled.

He’d married a stiff-necked Puritan, he decided darkly. But she didn’t look like one. Her naked shoulders had tempted him throughout the evening. He couldn’t help but recall that moment when he’d taken her; it was branded in his mind like fire. He hadn’t forgotten how it felt to be buried deep within her, her body hot and tight around his swollen flesh. Christ, but he’d longed to complete the act he’d only started! Leaving her then had been the hardest thing he’d ever done. He’d wanted to explode within her again and again and again.

And now his blood was burning again, scalding his veins, blazing through his body like lightning.

But she was as forbidden to him as ever.

His jaw clenched hard. It didn’t have to be that way.

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