Temptation's Kiss by Lisa Bingham

Author:Lisa Bingham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION/Romance/Historical
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2013-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Sullivan was struck to the core. He knew when a woman’s invitation involved something more than sipping tea in the drawing room. Yet, he had never seen any other female look at him with such blatant desire.

She led him from the studio up the stairs. Without the benefit of a candle, they were left in warm, murky shadows. Moonlight streamed through the curtains at the end of the hall, throwing lacy patterns on the floor and clouding their fevered expressions.

Climbing each step was an exercise in torture. He saw clearly the sway of her breasts and the lulling swing of her hips. Her hair streamed down her back in a mass of tiny ringlets which beckoned for his touch. Her lips begged for his kiss. If not for the presence of his grandmother and two servants, Sullivan would have considered ravishing her on the staircase—taking her like the savage she thought he was.

Chelsea paused by the door to the nursery. To his infinite astonishment, she twisted the doorknob and led him inside. He wondered if she were going to refuse him again. But as soon as he joined her, she closed the door and leaned back, offering him a tempting smile as she twisted the key she had removed from the other side.

“Biddy’s room adjoins my own, so I think we’ll spend the night here if you don’t mind. Besides … this is still the only room in the house with a lock.”

He didn’t respond.

She didn’t appear to have expected him to.

Straightening, she toyed with one of the buttons of her night rail, watched his reaction, then slipped the disc free in blatant invitation. Another creamy inch of flesh was exposed to his view, this time allowing a glimpse of the shadowed valley between her breasts.

Sullivan’s patience for wooing and teasing vanished, but when he stepped forward to haul her into his arms, she stopped him. Her head shook from side to side. “Shh. Not yet. Not yet. We have all night.” Her lips curved, her smile was filled with latent promise. “If I’m to do this, if I’m to suffer the consequences that will surely follow, I mean to make this a night worth remembering.”

Her words summoned a pang of conscience in Sullivan. He was not naive enough to think that there would be no repercussions for their actions. Even if no one were to discover what had happened, bonds would be formed, emotionally and physically. But too many ties already joined them, Sullivan realized. What was occurring was very real. To his infinite astonishment, he found himself wishing to ensure they became permanent.

Niggling doubts rose, churned, but they were quickly doused when she circled him, studying him as if he were a slave upon the block. Her fingers trailed his stomach, marking her path, feathered over his back, then returned to rest upon his waist as she faced him again.

Seeing her this way, with her eyes dark, her hair flowing, he knew he would never forget this night, whatever the future might bring.

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