The Sandalwood Princess by Loretta Chase

Author:Loretta Chase
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780380714551
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1990-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Philip watched her slip away into the shadows, and willed himself not to pursue her. He couldn't bring her back. Even the Falcon could not swoop down and make off with this prize. He smiled ruefully. Make off where? He hadn't any place to take her. What had he thought—that he might ravish her here, on the deck, in some dark corner amid the casks and ropes? Idiot.

He returned to his eternal position at the rail and stared down at the water.

Any lingering doubts he'd entertained had vanished the instant he'd kissed her. She was innocent. Her mouth had told him so. Hers was not the response of a practised se ductress—he'd had enough of that kind to know—but of the child she partly was, utterly untutored in lovemalring.

Shocked, he'd very nearly stopped it as soon as it had begun. Another moment's struggle, surely, and he'd have released her, for unwilling women were not to his taste. He would have stopped it, certainly, were it not for those confiding hands, creeping up to his neck, and were it not for her ripe, trusting mouth's willingness to follow his lead. That had quite undone him.

She'd succumbed too quickly, and so sweetly. Her slim, beautiful body had curved so naturally and so warmly to his. He'd wanted to wrap her around him, to lose himself in her erotic innocence, even as he taught her.

Oh, he'd lost himself all right, in needless torment. He knew perfectly well he couldn't seduce a naive gentlewoman, yet that was exactly what he'd commenced to do. The temptation had been, quite simply, quite completely, irresistible.

Even now, his heartbeats refused to steady. Even now, thee taste of her mouth, of her skin, lingered, along with the scent of patchouli and the sweet heat of her slim body. He glanced down at his fingers, white-knuckled, clutching the rail.

He told himself it was but a kiss. A prolonged one, admittedly, but at most no more than a passionate embrace. He'd embraced countless women, Asian as well as European, and bedded scores of them. This painful arousal was simply the result of seven months' enforced abstinence.

Tomorrow he'd be free of this accursed ship, and of her, and there would be other women. He could buy half a dozen tomorrow, in Portsmouth. He need simply endure his one night, a few hours, and it would be over at last.

Accordingly, since only a few hours remained, the in-trepid Falcon headed for the forecastle, with the very sensible intention of drinking them away.

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