The Double Duchess by Anna Harrington

Author:Anna Harrington [Harrington, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYLA

“Give me a second chance,” he whispered entreatingly against her lips.

A second chance? Belinda pulled away and stared at him. His quiet declaration simply stunned her.

Taking her surprised reaction as an invitation, he reached up to trace his thumb over her chin and back along her jaw. That small touch of affection sped through her, blazing a trail of warmth and need in its wake.

“Seeing you again and holding you in my arms makes me realize how much I still want a life with you. The one we’d planned.” His deep murmur seeped into her, filling her with the happiness she remembered. “Say that you’ll forgive me and give me that chance.”

She pressed her fist to her chest to physically calm her racing heart. A second chance with Maxwell… All of her yearned to have just that—the life with him that they’d been denied. She was still drawn to him as strongly as ever. Perhaps even more now that she knew the truth about why he’d broken off with her, now that she knew how much he’d loved her. At that moment, with Maxwell holding her in his arms, she could almost believe the past ten years and all the grief had never happened. As if anything could be possible again.

And yet…

“If you’re saying all this only to gain my support for the academy, it won’t work,” she warned, putting voice to her worst fears that all this was only a lie. That the second chance he wanted was simply another opportunity to break her heart.

“Then how about to gain your love?”

Did he really mean… love? She was too stunned to answer as he brought his lips to hers again and kissed away her surprise.

Despite her reservations, she sighed as his mouth moved gently against hers. At first, the kiss was tender and hesitant, then growing more bold with each passing heartbeat in which she didn’t stop him from claiming more. How could she, when this was exactly what she’d always wanted, what she’d longed for years to experience just once more? His lips on hers, the masculine taste of his kiss, his strong arms slipping around her to draw her against him…

She surrendered with a whisper. “Maxwell.”

All those kisses he’d given her in the past had been nothing like this. For heaven’s sake, she could taste the difference in him. The maturity that the years had brought to him, the tempering of experience, even an underlying patience that certainly hadn’t been there before—it all worked together to sweep her away, until there was only the strength of him beneath her fingertips as she splayed her hands over his shoulders, only his presence filling her senses until she shivered.

When she melted against him, boneless in his arms, a groan sounded from the back of his throat, and his tongue plunged between her lips to capture all of her kiss. She reveled in his need for her and enjoyed her own answering passion. A passion that now had her stroking her tongue over the length of his and encouraging him to claim even more.

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