The Regency Season by Ann Lethbridge

Author:Ann Lethbridge [Lethbridge, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

He wanted her so badly. Not the joys of her body, though, God help him, he wanted that, too, but the radiance of her spirit that had brought light into his increasingly dark world.

If he gave in to this, let himself hope and then lost her, it would finish him.

She cradled his cheek with her fingers. Cool skin. A searing touch. ‘Freddy, darling, you don’t deserve to be shut out in the cold.’

She understood. What barriers he had left were sundered by the realisation that she really did understand. He caught her wrist before she could draw back, pressed his lips to the centre of her cool little palm. ‘I love you. I will always love you.’

‘I love you, too.’ A small laugh stirred the air across his cheek. He shivered with pleasure. She pulled back to look at him, her eyes full of mischief. ‘I thought you were so annoying the first time we met. On that ship. You were so handsome. I wanted you to see me yet you treated me like a child. I wanted to shake you and make you look at me.’

‘I saw you,’ he croaked, his throat so dry it hurt to speak. ‘I was terrified by how much I saw you. I thought the best thing was to keep far away.’

‘I missed you.’

The words soothed him like balm on a raw wound. ‘You are sure? You really do want to marry me?’

‘With all my heart.’

‘I will get a special licence.’ Urgency filled him. ‘Tomorrow. I won’t wait any longer to make you mine.’

‘I am yours. You don’t have to wait.’ She twined her arms around his neck and kissed him with all the heat of a passionate woman.

He pulled her tight against his body, feeling her curves and hollows against him, cupping her lush bottom in one hand, a high plump breast with its hard little peak in the other, and tangled his tongue with hers.

It felt right. As if she was the part of him he’d been missing all his life. He’d been broken but hadn’t known it. With her he was whole. A new man. A better man.

Her breathing became urgent, ragged, her fingers digging into his back, her hips arching against his now painful arousal.

He broke their kiss on a groan. ‘I want you so badly.’

A small smile of satisfaction lit her face. ‘Good.’

His body jerked at the erotic note in her voice. He shrugged out of his robe. While she nimbly attacked the buttons of his shirt, he toed off his slippers and shucked off his pantaloons. It was a mess of hard breathing and groping hands and so sexy he couldn’t stop his smile. Free of all but his shirt, he gripped her shoulders and kissed her again. Her hands slipped under his shirttails and, no longer cool, stroked his back and his buttocks. He glanced around desperately for a place they could lie down in comfort. She gazed at the jutting evidence of his arousal beneath his shirt.

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