The Duke Diaries by Sophia Nash

Author:Sophia Nash [Nash, Sophia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9780062198037
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

It would be so easy to lose herself in his arms, Verity thought. She had once longed for it. For so many years of her girlhood he had filled the romantic corners of her mind until she had witnessed him with Catharine beneath the old pine tree.

Even after he went away to war a few months later so abruptly, she had dreamed of him. And now she finally understood why he had gone without a word. In her naïveté, she had never imagined Catharine Talmadge’s death had been anything different than the story her brother presented to the family.

Her diary entries had changed a few years after he had gone away. A new name cropped up in her ramblings one summer. She pushed the thought away, when Rory whispered something incoherent in her ear. She didn’t want to remember the past or the future. She only wanted to feel this moment. To drink it to the dregs.

Rory pulled her deeper into his arms, and she could not resist him. He was so warm in the coolness of the darkened room. She wanted him desperately. All she could hear was his breathing and the rustle of their clothes as he stroked her.

She lifted her head and tugged his to hers. He kissed her once again, his lips easing hers open and twining his tongue with her own. He smelled of dark spices and shaving soap. Irresistible.

And all at once she knew. She was going to fully experience the feelings he had awakened in her and allow herself to make love to him. For that is what it would be, at least for her . . . showing and giving her love to him, a man who deserved it more than anyone she had ever known. Oh, she harbored no hope at all for marriage now that her diaries had been stolen and published for all the world to see. She gave herself one chance in a hundred that her identity would not be discovered, which would very well taint the reputation of anyone and everyone associated with her.

But there was something vitally important she suddenly longed to do despite her ruined future. And it would harm no one.

She wanted desperately to grab onto the one chance she would ever have to conquer her fear. She could only do it by giving and receiving from the only man she could trust . . . Rory. Just once, she wanted to have the courage to experience physical love with someone who truly cared for her on a genuine level. She knew he would be gentle, and kind, and she would show Rory all of the secret love she possessed for him in return. Then she would forget her past of ten years ago and know, once and for all, what she might have had.

His breath was uneven along her jaw as he traced his mouth down her neck.

“Rory?” she whispered.

He didn’t lift his head from his ministrations. “Yes, V?”

“I have a great favor to ask.

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