Second Son of a Duke by Gwen Hayes

Author:Gwen Hayes [Hayes, Gwen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Historical Romance, Romantic Comedy, Romance
Publisher: Gwen Hayes
Published: 2010-04-27T11:01:46.698764+00:00

Five

The silence in the carriage grew uncomfortably thick as the minutes stretched to nearly a half an hour. Juliette stared at her own knees while she wistfully thought of something…anything…to say. She’d been such a fool to think that just because she willed it so, their relationship would change.

Certainly last night they’d created a bridge. And this morning, good heavens this morning, had amazed her and confused her all at once. The fact that Teddy desired her helped her plans for this afternoon perfectly. What she hadn’t counted on so much was her own reaction to his kisses.

Juliette had fallen in love with Teddy. She accepted that. She was grateful that the idea of intimacy with him wasn’t abhorrent for it would make keeping him tied to her much easier. She never for one moment believed that she would want him in return.

Everything her mother had ever told her about the difference between men and women was called into question. A lady submits to the baser instincts of her husband with grace and a charitable heart. She hadn’t been graceful or charitable on their wedding night, but she’d intended to rectify that today. Men are carnal creatures, they cannot help themselves. A wife will need to lock part of herself away, far in her mind, while he takes his pleasure from her body. That had certainly come to pass that night, and she was prepared to do it again. If he needed her body, he could have it, so long as she got him in return. Feigning interest in his passion is encouraged, though a woman will have to hide her instinctual disgust. Well, now there was the thing, wasn’t it?

She let her gaze wander shyly off her own body and onto his. Teddy stared out his window intently, and her pulse bounced erratically at his handsome profile.

She seemed to have misplaced her instinctual disgust.

Juliette felt a strange heaviness between her thighs when she thought of the way it felt to be trapped between his heavy body and the breakfast sideboard. His mouth on hers, his lips seeking for something from her—heat flooded her face even now as she remembered how she’d ached to give it to him, whatever it was.

“Are you all right, Juliette?”

The timber of his voice shook her back to awareness. Embarrassed, she turned away, though the damage had been done. She’d been staring at him. And he caught her. “I’m fine,” she managed, though a bit croaky.

They finally arrived at her brother’s hunting box. She’d sent ahead supplies and a servant to lay a fire and air the cabin with explicit instructions to be gone when they arrived.

The silence had bloomed from uncomfortable to awkward. While Teddy stoked the fire, Juliette set out the luncheon. While her stomach rebelled at the thought of food, the wine held her apt attention. With his back to her, she swilled down half a glass, refilling it before he was any wiser.

He joined her at the little table. They broke the crushing silence with inane bursts of chatter followed by more oppressing quiet.

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