Temptation (Avon Red) by Swann Leda

Author:Swann, Leda [Swann, Leda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2009-10-20T22:00:00+00:00

Eight

Beatrice looked at the line of people waiting to be treated. Some days, when there was sickness in the City, it snaked out the door and into the corridor, but today it was blessedly short.

At the head of the line was a very familiar face.

She gave a sigh, not sure whether it was born of irritation or of pleasure. Would Captain Carterton never let her be?

She beckoned him over with a frown. “You are not needed at the barracks?” Her voice was as stern as she could make it. She had to make him realize that she was not a pushover. He could not simply command her attention whenever he felt like it.

There might be passion between them—his kiss had taught her that much—but passion was not to be trusted. She wanted more from a husband, needed more from a husband, than a good time between the sheets.

A husband was forever. A woman had to choose wisely when she picked the man she would marry, and not allow herself to be blinded by transient bodily desires. She did not know the captain’s character, and she certainly doubted the permanence of his affections. In fact, she suspected he was poor husband material all around.

If she was a different sort of woman, she might consider taking him as a temporary lover. He would do very well for that sort of thing. Just the thought of him lying over her, pushing his cock into her secret places, was enough to make her squirm with heat.

Unfortunately she was not in the market for a lover…

The captain gestured at his wounded arm, seemingly not at all concerned by the sternness of her voice. “I’m officially on invalid leave. A soldier, even an officer, isn’t much good if he’s only got one arm. I’ve come to have the dressings changed.”

“Could the army surgeons not oblige you?” In her experience, the army surgeons were jealous of their patients and only sent the most intractable cases to the public hospital.

He gave her a cheeky grin. “They are not as pretty as you are.”

“If you have come to see me in my professional capacity, I trust you will keep the conversation appropriate,” she said in her most quelling tone.

“I waited for you. I wanted it to be your hands that healed me, not the hands of a stranger.”

“The result would be the same.”

His smile crinkled the corner of his eyes. “Ah, but the process would be so much less pleasant.”

She gave a sigh. Mules had nothing on his stubbornness. She might as well give in to him graciously and save her energy for the battles that really mattered. Like resisting his physical appeal. “Let me take off your sling and see what’s underneath.”

He held out his arm to her. She untied the sling and carefully unwound the bandages the covered his arm.

She recoiled at the sight of the nasty red gashes that covered his upper arm. The red lines sprawled out over his arm like the tracks of a wandering centipede.

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