The Forbidden Chamber by Ella Drake

Author:Ella Drake [Drake, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2009-10-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Sunlight shone through the window and warmed Isabel’s naked skin. The unfiltered rays nearly blinded her. She closed her eyes. The long day had been spent mostly in bed, but the light beckoned. Rukh had walked outside with her for a few moments, and only then did she realize how much she’d missed the sun at the Manor, where the fog seemed unrelenting.

Isabel turned from the window to her tousled husband asleep in the rumpled sheets of the tiny bed. It had taken only a seductive twist to her lips to convince him to spend the day here. A heady power, that. Though she’d allowed him to think she’d return with him through her silence, she did not like the guilt of lying by omission.

How could she return to be murdered? Her heart fisted, and she gasped. The pain of leaving nearly doubled her over, but she couldn’t remain in the untenable situation. How could he tempt her so thoroughly to go with him to her peril?

Tall, lean, and sculpted, golden-skinned temptation covered the bed. She’d thrown the sheet across his middle to keep her hands from roaming there and waking him. Well she knew what rested there.

Stubble covered his chin. His dark hair glinted blue in the light, but the smudges beneath his closed lashes tugged at her. He’d suffered as she. How could their bond be so heart wrenching after a matter of days?

A cloud passed over the sun. She blinked against the fading light before she realized she’d stared at Rukh for perhaps an hour, long enough for the sun to begin its decline. He stirred and blinked awake while stretching his long, delicious frame.

“Come back to bed.” His scratchy tenor rasped with sleep. She crossed to him. The warmth from the sun and the passion he inspired gave her hips a sultry roll.

What duty compelled a wife? Here, where the taint of Bluebeard did not reach, she’d begun to doubt.

Despite the intention to leave, she couldn’t keep away from him, not an easy proposition in the small room in any case. Dare she think that though she’d no longer have a husband, perhaps she might already carry a piece of him inside? She should not want to have his babe under the circumstances, but the ache to have him, even through a child, flowed in her veins, too strong to deny.

She lay beside him. When he touched her, troubles fell away.

Rukh proved once again that their passion grew stronger each moment they remained together. After their bodies were spent, she drifted to sleep.

The bed shifted and brought her closer to awareness. Darkness greeted her upon waking. She stretched with languid content. Rukh’s hushed tones nearly lulled her back to sleep with a smile on her face.

“Is the carriage ready?” he asked a man at the door. All her inclination to slumber fled.

“It will be, as you ask, within the hour.”

“Good. Knock when you bring the dinner tray. Here is the letter. Be sure to have it delivered post-haste.

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