The Duke (Daughters of Dishonour Book 2) by Ava Bond

Author:Ava Bond [Bond, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Kit forced himself away from her bedroom, his feet uneven and his mind more so. There was one advantage to this house, and that was the size of it. It was entirely possible to lose himself down one of the numerous passageways and corridors. If only it was so easy to forget or preferably bury the memory of kissing her.

Elsie. Miss Keating. He should repeat the latter until he stopped slipping into informality…

You imbecile, he cursed himself, the use of her name is not the problem. Returning her kiss with the enthusiasm you just demonstrated is the far bigger issue. He should never have even entered her chamber and followed the sounds he’d heard because…

Casting his mind back to what he’d seen, he was clouded in uncertainty despite it being just a few minutes ago. Surely it was just his own desire that he’d witnessed her touching herself. The likelihood that a gentry woman, the daughter of a clergyman…

But she started the kiss… whilst he most definitely ended it. Why would she do that? That was a question that cascaded through him, battling away more erotic thoughts.

Kit forced his feet to stop moving. He stood in the middle of a long portrait gallery, one which was dusty and thankfully unoccupied save for himself. God, he finally acknowledged how much he wanted her. How he’d wanted her for weeks and been avoiding her in an attempt to deny this. He wanted to taste the sweetness of her skin, to run his hands over her slim frame, recapturing the willingness of her mouth. Better yet to lead her away from the middle of the room and over to her bed. He was certain he could fuck her for hours until her mouth was swollen with his kisses, their naked bodies spent. How he wanted the daintiness of her beauty, the quickness of her wit, the generosity of her spirit…

He had thought or perhaps hoped that avoiding her would cure him of his interest. That was what he knew was too mild a word.

Elsie Keating was a charming torment, and surely any man who met her would want to bed her, but unless he planned to wed her, a kiss was as far as it could ever go. After all, he couldn’t inflict an association with his family on any woman. Sucking in a breath, he tried to make himself think of something, anything else.

Cynically, Kit told himself that there was the distinct possibility that women, ladies… persons like Elsie would consider him a catch. Which perhaps might be the case, were they moving through polite society. But they weren’t. They were isolated, and Elsie might see how undesirable it was to be trapped here.

Yet she had returned his kiss.

With an abrupt movement Kit forced himself to stand upright. He had to resume his earlier firm grip on himself and avoid Elsie as much as possible.

A dark thought shifted forward and within the next ten days, Miss Keating, Lady Flora, and himself were due to host a formal dinner party.

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