Tempted by a Rogue by Lauren Smith

Author:Lauren Smith [Smith, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Jasper remained in the little garden shed for a long while after she’d gone, staring out the window. He had just cornered her and taken her like some beast, without a thought to her pain until it was too late. Seeing her tears, quarreling with her, when all he wanted to do was hold her and kiss away every glistening drop on her cheeks was enough to destroy the last of his sanity. How could he have so little control when it came to her?

I’ve survived scurvy, starvation, fire ships, pirates who slit the throats of men while they sleep in their hammocks, and yet I cannot seem to withstand Gemma’s tears.

He’d robbed her of the one thing she’d protected and held for the man meant to love her. It should have been given on her wedding night to her husband, the man he wanted to be more than anything, but he’d acted too early, too rashly. The worst part was he didn’t feel guilty enough for a man who’d done what he’d just had, in fact, he had loved every single kiss and heated thrust of that short but powerful moment with Gemma. The innocent wantonness of her response had been his undoing. The way she responded to his touch, his kiss, every little shiver and sigh had made him hot all over and aching to be inside her body in whatever way he could.

What was he supposed to do now? Did he just walk away from her until she was ready to love again after James? He wanted nothing more than to tell her everything, but for the first time true fear cut him deep. He could lose her if she chose to hate him after everything he’d done. What if he wasn’t enough for her? Assuming she could get past the lies he’d told her, and the letters he’d written claiming to be his closest friend, would she want him?

A lack of confidence had never been one of his weaknesses but now he was afraid he wouldn’t be enough for her. All he had was his parent’s home, a little country mansion, half a dozen servants and a respectable income. The dreams of returning glorious with a vast fortune hadn’t been possible, and he couldn’t stay at sea another decade. That life had taken much from him and now all he craved was a measure of peace. Would that be good enough for a woman like Gemma who deserved a wonderful life?

He’d been raised to be the sort of man who did the right thing by people, but the years spent serving in the navy had changed him. He had learned that people could be sacrificed, that men could be betrayed and that you had to look out for your own interests. Gemma was most certainly one of his interests. He only wished he could tell her everything at that moment, confess his lies and win back her trust so he could be that much closer to winning her heart.

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