The Italian's Bride by Hamilton Diana

Author:Hamilton, Diana
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
Published: 2001-08-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

IT WAS like being swept into paradise, and Portia gasped inwardly as a wave of something too sublime to be recognised engulfed her.

The tingling ribbons of delicious shock that had invaded her entire nervous system when his mouth had first closed over hers were taking ages to die down, making her feel light-headed, incapable of moving, of doing a single thing except simply stand there, drowning in liquid fire, drawing raggedy little breaths as his fingers twined slowly through her hair, his lips moulding the contours of hers.

Every thought was blanked out, all her senses were wholly seduced, fiercely concentrated on the way his mouth felt against hers—just that. The way his lips were gently parting hers, the tip of his tongue moving languorously inside. And she was simply letting it happen, because it was so utterly and completely wonderful.

The first sign that he might be breaking the kiss, withdrawing this irresistible magic, made her give a throatily protesting moan, made her suddenly cling to him, press her lush body against the hardness and heat of his, wanting to lose herself in him, in this heady, needy sensation of entering a paradise she had never known existed.

And the way he immediately deepened the kiss, his answering groan as his hands slid down and urgently shaped the ripe curves of her body, inflamed her so she didn’t know what she was doing—until, abruptly, he moved away from her wild embrace. When she could focus at all she saw that she had almost ripped the shirt from his body in her frantic need to feel his skin against hers, his flesh against her flesh.

Portia’s face turned bright red with deep mortification and she shuddered irrepressibly. What on earth would he be thinking of her? That she was sex-crazy, anybody’s for the asking?

How could she have done that? Oh, how could she? She had practically ravished him on the spot, and if he hadn’t called a halt, been turned off by that rapacious response, then goodness only knew what might have happened!

And how could she long so desperately to be back in his arms yet at the very same time wish she was a million miles away? She put a shaky hand to her mouth to stop herself from crying out.

‘I’m sorry. That shouldn’t have happened.’ Lucenzo’s voice was flat, but she noted that his fingers weren’t quite steady as he slotted the buttons that were left back into their holes and tucked his shirt firmly into the waistband of his trousers.

Swallowing jerkily, deeply and quite horribly ashamed of what she’d done, she looked away from his now silent scrutiny. He was right. Of course he was right. That kiss should never have happened. It had made her feel wonderful, out of this world, but it had created more barriers than it had broken down.

‘I’m going in,’ she imparted when she could not endure the spiky silence one moment longer. Her voice was stiff with embarrassment as she forced herself forward, treading the maze of paths in an angst-ridden trance.

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