The Delicate Matter of Lady Blayne by Natasha Blackthorne

Author:Natasha Blackthorne
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: 0
Published: 2015-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

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The rattle of the carriage, the feel of movement, should have been soothing to James. He normally enjoyed any kind of travel. But today, every bump and jolt seemed to accentuate his sense of disquiet.

Catriona appeared to be sleeping in the seat opposite him.

He didn’t believe that she was. The tension of her thoughts seemed to resonate on the air. It settled into his guts. His bones.

He longed to ask what was on her mind. He resisted.

She deserved the quiet and dignity to sort herself out.

His own thoughts wouldn’t give him peace. He didn’t deserve any peace.

How had he come to lose control with her once again? It took a certain depth of selfishness in a man to impose his lusts on a young woman who had been so recently breached. And then to have come inside her. That had been inexcusable.

She did this to him. Yes, she did. All the same, it was wrong to put the blame on her. If she made him weak, it was only because of some weakness within himself. She had shown him this weakness before, all those years ago when she had rejected him in favor of Freddy. A profound weakness, a vulnerability that had nearly destroyed him. He had worked so hard to discipline himself, to eradicate this vulnerability from himself.

He had thought himself successful. He had been proud of himself. Had been smug, even, about the progress he’d made. Only it had all been a lie, the worst kind of self-deception.

A chill passed over his scalp.

She had the ability to make him feel things that were unfamiliar to his nature. Those feelings had the power to destroy him from within. If he were to continue with her, he needed to take command of his emotions. He needed to control himself…and her.

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