The Queen's Baby Scandal by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-09-06T11:52:33+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

MAURO STRIPPED HIMSELF NAKED. He needed a cold shower. Something. Anything to deal with the desire that was still riding through his body. He had intended to make her feel out of control. To give her a taste of what she had done to him that night at the club.

When she had pushed him past the point of thinking clearly. Past the point of being sensible at all. And he had. He had, but in the end, she had somehow still done something to him. Overridden anything sensible. Destroyed every barrier that he had placed between the two of them.

The fact that he had been able to walk away had been a damned miracle. And now...

He was shaking. He was. He had wanted to make her tremble, had wanted to make her boneless, mindless, and he had done it. But at what cost?

What cost to himself?

He did not know the man he was when he touched her.

He went up in flames.

The connecting door between their bedrooms suddenly opened, and he turned.

It was his wife.

And he was completely naked, so there was no hiding the fact that he was aroused, that his cock was hard, and ready for her. That he was in no way in control of his needs or desires.

“What are you doing here?”

She was still naked, her entire body bare and exposed to him, her pale curves temptation he was not sure he could fight. Was not certain he could overcome.

“I came because I owe you an apology.”

She began to walk toward him, her hips swaying gently, her lush curves and wild, glorious hair, tumbled around her shoulders, making him think of an ancient goddess.

“You owe me an apology?” he asked, the words sounding stilted.

“Yes. I owe you a great many things. And one evening will not be sufficient in making amends. But I would like to try.”

“What are you doing?”

She moved nearer to him, pressing her palm against his chest, her touch soft, bewitching. “If you have to ask, then I’m not doing a very good job.”

She walked a circle around him, slowly, appraising his body, her fingertips grazing lightly over his skin as she did. She stopped in front of him, those green eyes intent on his, blazing.

“I am a queen,” she said. “I have been, my entire life, even before I bore the title. That’s how it works. When you are the heir, you must behave as if you are from the beginning. There is no other option. There will be no quarter given. And I have... I have lived my life that way. Above reproach in many ways, as we discussed. But also without nuance. Without subtlety. There is no humility in me. I didn’t learn it. I like to think there’s compassion. Caring. And that mostly in my life I have acted in a way that would not do harm to others. But I have always been set apart, and I have always lived that way. My connections with those around me... I’m incapable of separating them from my status.

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