The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen

Author:Julie Klassen [Klassen, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Margaret pressed two fingers to her lips, still tender from Nathaniel’s kiss. A pair of fingers was not so much different than a pair of lips, she reasoned, but somehow the pressure of her fingers, once soft, now already beginning to roughen, felt nothing like his lips had—firm, smooth, yet punctuated with scratchy whiskers on chin and cheek. Just thinking of it caused her to experience anew the sweet heady tension, the hammering heart rate, the delirium of thought and emotion. She had never felt that way in her life and wondered why.

Margaret had been kissed before. She thought back to Marcus Benton’s forced kiss not so long ago, his fingers biting into the tender skin of her upper arms. But that act had evoked revulsion, anger, fear . . . not the dreamy longing that lingered over her now, that languor of limb and mind. Marcus’s had been an act one wished to forget. Nathaniel’s a moment to savor and relive. She told herself she was being foolish. For he had not known what he was doing. If he had known it was her, really her, he would never have kissed her, held her with such urgency. But he had been dreaming of kissing her, so did that not mean something . . . something wonderful? She thought she had killed any feelings he’d had for her. But perhaps she had been mistaken.

How different she would feel if she believed Nathaniel Upchurch had tried to kiss Nora, a defenseless housemaid. She thought of Lewis’s flirtatious past and Marcus’s outright seduction of girls who felt they had little choice. Margaret thought she understood for the first time why Nathaniel Upchurch never really looked at, and certainly never ogled, his servants. It was to her advantage, for he had not looked at her directly enough to recognize her.

She wondered what it would be like to kiss Nathaniel when he was fully awake. She doubted she would ever know. For awake and in his right mind, a gentleman like Nathaniel Upchurch would only kiss his wife with that measure of unguarded passion. She’d had her chance to be his wife and had spurned it, spurned him. A choice she was beginning to truly regret.

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