The Duke’s Rebellious Love by Bond Ava

Author:Bond, Ava
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

It wasn’t their conversation, or what she had experienced for the last five hours with her sister, nor the handsome sternness of Woolwich that made him so appealing. No, it was the unmistakable kindness he had demonstrated with her. Perhaps she should have shown some reservations—she was dressed in a hastily thrown-on gown, her hair was loose around her shoulders, not to mention Clara was fairly certain there was blood on her. A more unappealing sight she could not have presented to him, and yet Woolwich had been nothing but considerate.

That was Clara’s motivation in kissing him—that sweet kindness she saw, which was finally peeking out from the hard exterior he presented to the world.

His face was so close to her, enough for her to see the flecks of dark blue in his slate-coloured eyes, a few strands of grey in his blond hair, peppered in and noticeable now that he was so near. There was an undeniably appealing aspect to him, a uniquely Jasper-ian… She speculated on what to call it. An aspect of goodness which he hid, but which, nonetheless she had found and treasured.

She pressed her lips passionately against the thin line of his mouth. Clara expected him to gently but firmly push her away, to list and remind her of all the reasons why this was a mistake. It was an error of seismic proportions. But when Woolwich’s hands came up to her shoulders, he tightened his grip on the material of her dress, and then when his mouth parted, he let out a groan and pulled her more tightly against his chest and onto his lap. One of his hands moved up to hold her head, angling it for better access as his tongue slipped in between her parted lips. Butterflies or winged creatures fluttered beneath Clara’s skin, plunging her entire being into the realm of golden light, a universe built entirely on sense, touch, and desire. Kissing him was as good as a new book or the discovery of an unknown author.

Woolwich’s other hand had shifted from her shoulder and was slowly palming its way across from her collarbone to the front of her dress. Those clever fingers pried buttons loose until his fingertips slipped inside and made contact with her skin. Clara could not imagine how it would feel when his large hand finally encircled her breast, but she wanted it, her body willed as she leant forward into his searching hand. Heat was running beneath her flesh, featherlight at first, until it came to throb between her legs. That need, the tumbling, ratcheting winged creatures, were alive under her skin, and if he didn’t touch her breast right then and there, she would never forgive him. Breaking free of his tempting mouth, Clara muttered, “Please.”

There was something so forbidding in his eyes as Woolwich peered down at her, but now this sternness simply added to her own growing lust for him.

“Do you even know what you’re asking me? I doubt any of the books you’ve read would be so informative.

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