The Matter of a Marquess by Jess Michaels

Author:Jess Michaels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-08-17T21:00:00+00:00

That question echoed through Nicholas’s mind, and he sucked in a deep breath as he pondered it. A few hours ago he would have called this a surrender. Only to happen once. Not to make him forget what he wanted for his future and what had been done in the past.

But now, after hearing her story, he questioned everything he’d always believed and been told. There was no denying Aurora’s bravery. He’d been to a few bawdy houses in his day. The kind she’d ended up in wasn’t a good place. Frightening was an understatement, he thought meant to minimize how terrified she’d been.

There was also no arguing against her loyalty. She had been friends with this woman, Imogen, for a long time, it seemed, but not many would go as far as she had. Most would only cluck their tongues and shake their heads sadly and faintly wonder whatever had happened to a friend in such a situation. He could count on his hand the number who might swing into action and try to save a friend. Even fewer were those who would risk their own life and reputation in the process.

When Aurora spoke to him, it had made his mind turn back to all those years ago. To the night he’d been told she threw him over. He’d been so young then. So uncertain of himself and if he was worthy of a woman so high above his station. It had been easy to believe her father that he’d been wrong about her intentions and walk away to mitigate any further hurt.

Now years had given him far more confidence and experience in reading people. And he questioned everything he’d been told that long-ago night.

“Nicholas?” Her voice broke, and he shook away the thoughts and focused on her. Those brown eyes shimmered with tears and her fingers trembled against his jaw. “What do you want?”

She repeated the question and his gut clenched because the answer was so perfectly clear. Just as it always had been. The question and the answer always the same.

And yet he didn’t fully trust that answer with her. Not yet. So he met her gaze. “What do you want, Aurora?”

She lifted up on her knees and leaned in, then her mouth found his. “This,” she whispered as he sprawled back on the bed and she moved across him, her soft body molding to his and bringing him back to attention with just the slightest of touch. “For as long as we can.”

He slid his fingers into her hair and held her closer as he kissed her. Deeper. Deeper, until she moaned and wiggled against him. When at last they broke apart, her breath was short as she added, “Is that unfair?”

He nodded. “But it’s unfair that it’s what I want too. For as long as we can.”

He pulled her back to him and kissed her again as she straddled his lap and aligned their bodies. And as she took him deep inside once more, starting

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