Scandal by Carolyn Jewel

Author:Carolyn Jewel [Jewel, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781937823030
Publisher: Carolyn Jewel, Author
Published: 2012-05-30T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

THE SLIDE OF WOOD AND METAL PARTS AS THE DOOR closed was the sound of Sophie’s life changing forever. In the silence that followed the soft click she could have stepped away from him. Lord Banallt let the silence grow and thus gave her the chance to object or make an excuse that would send him away. But she didn’t. She didn’t want to. Downstairs, he’d whispered her name while he slept. Moaned, more like it. The sound had made her feel alive. She’d made up her mind right then that she wanted to know what it would be like to have him hold her with the knowledge between them that this time there would be no stopping. Would he moan her name like that?

Banallt slid his arm around her waist until her body fit snug against his.

She’d been waiting for this all her life.

The Earl of Banallt, wicked to the core, dropped his head, and Sophie responded. Her entire body wanted this. Him. With an intake of breath before his lips touched hers, she opened her mouth under his in a capitulation to her years of suppressed desire. Her body flashed hot with need. The door held her up as he continued to kiss her, gently and yet with a leashed passion that shook her to her soul. Tonight, she would discover what it was like to be with a man who desired her.

Banallt loosened his hold on her long enough to put the candle on a table mercifully near them, and then he brought her back into his embrace, both his arms around her this time. She melted against him. Their mouths met again, and this time his kiss was a little rougher. Less controlled. Less restrained. She brought up her hand and ended up clutching his coat and pulling him closer. His tongue swept into her mouth, and her brain simply stopped reacting to anything but holding him, tasting him, making sure he didn’t stop.

She slid her arms up and around his shoulders, rising on her toes. His hair, thick and cool as silk, soft as down, brushed the back of her hands. She buried her fingers in his hair, pulling his head to hers and giving herself up to their kiss and the passion that erupted from her. He wanted her; she felt his need in the grip of his arms around her and in the way his mouth fit to hers. Banallt wanted her. Knowing that made her want more. She felt as if she’d never been kissed in her life, that this was her first time.

With his arms still around her, he drew back. He lifted his hands to her face, cupping her head in his palms and brushing his thumbs along her cheeks. “Sophie,” he whispered. “Sophie… Are you sure?”

“Yes.”

For one chilling moment, he was every inch the cold and heartless Earl of Banallt. His hair hung straight and dark and black as pitch, and his eyes flashed with that dark light so peculiar to him.

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