Sinful Pleasures by Mary Reed McCall

Author:Mary Reed McCall [McCall, Mary Reed]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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In the cool dark of night, many hours later, Alissende lay on her side, sleepless within the gauzy curtains of their bed. She tried to keep from rolling onto her back to look at Damien, tried to pretend that he wasn't stretched out a mere arm's length behind her. If she imagined hard enough, she could almost sense his warmth soaking into the thin coverlet that was spread atop them. She could feel his strong hands slipping up her back in a gentle caress and then sliding forward at her waist to rest, palm splayed, warmly against her belly.

Almost ...

Ah, but she ached to feel Damien, to hold him ... to love him again.

She'd felt the sharpness of that yearning more than ever tonight, when he'd placed his pride in her hands and agreed to undertake lessons in reading and writing with her. She had not been certain he would do it. When she'd seen his expression upon entering the chamber, she'd wondered if he would simply turn around and leave again. But he had risen to her challenge — an offer she'd made him in a far different manner from what he'd tendered to her, with his erotic teasing — but perhaps for not so very different reasons.

Whether he wanted to admit it or nay, Damien still felt the pull of the bond they had once known with each other. She'd realized it from their first night together at Glenheim, and his latest teasing games with her had only revealed that truth more fully.

What she'd had to come to terms with herself, though, was how much the knowledge that she still wanted him, regardless of the painful stipulations he had placed upon the term of their agreement together or her determination to keep her heart her own, free from any man. Her desire for him tempted her, aching sweetly, even though she knew in all logic that emotion was futile. He was driven by darker demons than she would ever know, and he'd abandoned his faith in God, risking his immortal soul with such a blatant rejection.

To open herself up to him again in body or soul would be to blind herself to those immutable truths, would it not?

But she wanted him still, wrong as it was.

That overwhelming realization had struck her as she'd watched him struggle with the unfamiliar skills she'd begun teaching him tonight. His brow had been furrowed with concentration, his long, elegant fingers curved around the quill as he'd labored to scratch out the same loops and lines she'd demonstrated on the vellum. A lock of his dark gold hair had fallen onto his brow as he'd bent over the page, but his focus had been so strong that he had not appeared to notice.

She had. It had been all she'd been able to do not to reach out and brush it back. To proceed, then, with many other far more wanton things. She had wanted to touch him as badly as she'd ever wanted anything in her life.

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