The Accidental Duchess by Jessica Benson

Author:Jessica Benson [Benson, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, General
ISBN: 9781439187821
Google: x3XVo5DAWu4C
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-11-23T13:00:00+00:00

If I were going to, it was now or never. I took a deep breath, and dropping his robe to the floor, stood before him in just my thin wrapper.

I forced myself to be still under his gaze, until he lifted his darkened eyes to mine once again. Without letting my gaze move away from him, I slowly reached up and took down the wet hair that I had coiled on top of my head It fell, warm and damp and heavy to my shoulders. He was still watching as if he could not bring himself to tear his eyes away. Encouraged, I very deliberately licked my lips again, and untied the ribbons that closed my wrapper at the neck, relishing the slip of the silk as they slid free. He swallowed.

“Have you been thinking about this, Cambourne?” I asked, surprised by how husky my voice sounded to my own ears.

Instead of answering, he stepped even nearer, and pulled me to him.

“Wanting this?” I whispered.

“Constantly,” he said against my ear, as he slid the palms of his hands down my silk-covered arms. “Without cease.”

This was going much better than I had expected! I took a step back from him “And this?” I asked, as I parted the very top of my wrapper. He was watching me now, with narrow-eyed intensity. Every inch of his body was taut, but I could still think, I realized with some satisfaction.

Now. I had to start the questioning innocuously, I knew. “Were you thinking about this before we were married?” I whispered, licking my lips. “When you decided to step in for Milburn?”

Then I almost gasped as the air hit my hardened nipples. And my firm grip on rationality seemed to tilt, when he made a sort of strangled noise and pulled me to him. His hands slid to my hips, where they seemed to melt a path. Still gripping my hips, he lowered his head, and his lips sought mine. This time, his mouth seemed to whisper across mine for only a moment, before he turned the kiss deeper, his tongue swept across my lips. Our thighs were pressed together and his hands left my hips, one to trace the lightest caresses over my breasts, the other to stroke my bottom, pushing me harder against him. His strangled sound was mine now.

“Cambourne,” I gasped as he rocked against me.

“Easy,” he whispered, against the side of my neck. “Easy, Gwen,” as his nimble fingers parted the wrapper further. His hands were almost touching bare skin!

And I confess, I realized then and there that I didn’t have the stuff of which empire breakers are made. I no longer remembered what I wanted to know or why. I only wanted his hands on more of me.

“Come to my bed, Gwen,” he whispered, as he moved his hand so that my breast filled his palm, his skin causing the most delightful friction against mine.

I gasped, and nodded, as I made the discovery that pushing myself back up against him made things all that much better.

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