To Tame a Wild Lady by Ashlyn Macnamara

Author:Ashlyn Macnamara
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Somehow Adrian managed to keep the first contact brief—a test, like a man poking his toe into pounding surf and finding the temperature to his liking. And just like that he was ready to immerse himself.

So he took a deep breath and plunged into the boundless, warm ocean of Lady Caroline. Salt water closed over his head, and the undertow sucked at his legs.

There were at least a thousand reasons why he shouldn’t kiss her, the danger of losing himself in her topmost. But the demands of his body were fast obliterating his reason.

He needed her closer, closer than their current awkward position permitted, stretched across their respective chairs, straining toward each other. He needed her spread out on the pallet before the hearth, her hair down in a shimmering golden blanket across her bare shoulders, the shifting strands giving tantalizing hints at her naked breasts, pink nipples poking through the silken skeins. At the back of her head, his fingers began to pluck at hairpins in an instinctive bid to turn fantasy into reality.

Fantasy.

He must hold on to that ultimate impossibility. But she’d wished to create her own fantasy world here in this cottage, and Adrian did not possess the will to deny her whim. Mainly because he needed her lips, her teeth, her tongue the way a drowning man needed air—as a physical imperative.

She clutched at him, her fingers burrowing into his scalp, her mouth ravenous on his.

Not enough.

Not nearly enough, but to continue in this position was untenable. Without breaking contact, he shifted to his knees. Unforgiving wood bit into the joints, and his neck soon ached from this new angle. Worst of all, he still could not take pleasure in the full press of her lithe body against his. Not this way.

By gum, he hadn’t been this unsure of where to place his hands since the age of fourteen when he’d sneaked into the hayloft with the daughter of a Wyvern tenant. Then he’d been all bumbling limbs, and he felt every bit as clumsy now.

Lady Caroline whimpered into his kiss. Doubtless he’d forced her to stretch to her limit, but she refused to break contact. A hint of desperation—one he quite understood—colored every movement of her mouth. She did not wish to be the one to shatter the spell, and neither did he.

But he had to.

Heart racing, breath ragged, he pulled away.

Her eyelids fluttered open, and the fire burnished her hair with copper and flickered off flawless porcelain skin. She ran the pink tip of her tongue across a pouty lower lip, and he suppressed a groan.

Damn her perfection. He couldn’t get enough of it.

He set his hands on the back of her chair, framing her shoulders, caging her. He heaved himself to his feet. Then he gathered her to his chest, lifting and pivoting until she settled in his lap. Her breath rushed out in a gasp.

She raised her hand to his jaw, the pads of her fingers smooth and silky next to his skin as she traced a path down his neck.

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