The Wicked Ways of a Duke by Laura Lee Guhrke

Author:Laura Lee Guhrke [Guhrke, Laura Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 0061143618
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2008-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Abernathy Heiress Engaged! But Is It Love?

—The Social Gazette, 1894

S he was his. Rhys could feel it in the parting of her lips, in the twining of her arms around his neck, in the soft yielding of her body against his. He savored the sweetness of victory along with the hot, hungry arousal coursing through his body, but even that potent combination wasn’t enough. He wanted more.

Though he knew a woman’s surrender when he felt it, he wanted her to give her consent to be his wife out loud. He broke the kiss and tilted his head, touching his lips to the side of her neck. “Was that a yes?” he asked, tasting her skin with his tongue.In reply, she made a soft, moaning sound that was definitely affirmative, but he wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to hear her say it.

He pressed kisses upward along her throat. “I didn’t quite understand that,” he murmured against her ear. He took her earlobe into his mouth and raked his teeth gently against her velvety soft skin, feeling her entire body shiver in response. “Could you say it again?”

“Mm,” she answered, arms tightening around his neck, her breath quickening. “Umm-hmm.”

That was still not enough for him. He had to have more. Suckling her earlobe, Rhys left off caressing her face and slid his hands down between them. When his palms embraced the fullness of her breasts, the pleasure was exquisite, but he didn’t linger there. Instead, he lowered his hands still farther, savoring the deep dip of her waist and the wider flare of her hips. Even through the layers of her clothing and the whalebone stiffness of her corset, he could discern the true shape of her, and it was a shape so perfect, he gave a low groan of pure masculine appreciation.

“You’re lovely,” he muttered, and immediately cursed himself for not coming up with something more original to say than that. But for the life of him, he was unable to make his mind fashion a more sophisticated compliment. He kissed her ear, her cheek, her hair. “Luscious.”

He cupped her buttocks in his hands, and the move shocked her, he could tell. Her hands slid down from his neck and her palms flattened against his chest. He was shocked as well, for he could hear his own breath harsh and quick against her ear as he shaped the contours of her lush and lovely bum, and realized with chagrin that his control was slipping.

He reminded himself that they were in the parlor of a respectable ladies’ lodging house and the respectable ladies would return at any moment. Yet even as he ordered himself to stop, he lifted her in his hands, and her arms tightened around his neck again as he brought her hips up hard against his. The pleasure was so great, it almost knocked him off his feet, but he reminded himself again that this wasn’t the time for amorous explorations. He had to let her go, but not before he had her pledge.

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