Total Surrender by Cheryl Holt

Author:Cheryl Holt
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Published: 2005-06-20T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Michael Stevens stopped in the doorway to the bedchamber as the crazed woman before him smashed a decanter against the fireplace. Glass shards flew everywhere.

“I mean it!” she repeated in threat. “Go!”

He wasn’t certain what had just occurred between them in her dressing room but, considering the aftermath he was now viewing, he had to sincerely wonder whether she was prone to lunacy.

What type of female invited a man to her boudoir, enticed him beyond reason, then panicked like a silly virgin? She was fortunate he still had control of his wits, that he wasn’t the sort who would rush across the room and take what she’d initially offered but had obviously decided she didn’t want to supply.

The woman was a menace, and he couldn’t help but wonder what Pamela Blair, Lady Carrington, was thinking, welcoming such an unstable person to her fete. Pamela regularly opened her home to her decadent friends and acquaintances, providing them with a private and confidential environment where they could frolic at their leisure. They came in droves, to fornicate and debauch, both the men and women ready to wallow in every sick, ribald, immoral fantasy imaginable, and there were plenty of men currently visiting who wouldn’t desist, despite these loud, fervent protests.

Pamela was risking disaster by bringing such a volatile guest onto the premises, and Michael couldn’t wait to tell her so. In the meantime, he had to figure out a method of soothing this beautiful-but-deranged shrew before she shouted the house down.

To think that he’d let himself be lured away from a placid, civilized game of cards for this! If he’d utilized superior judgment, he could be downstairs—winning—while safely sequestered in the company of rational men or, better yet, he could have gone to cavort with any of the other female guests who’d asked, and he could at this very moment be copulating in peace, without being banged on the head for his troubles.

Considering the numbers of gorgeous, lustful women who were flowing in and out of the property, he’d had numerous other acceptable choices. As he was the most disreputable male in their midst, the wanton ladies of the ton were positively dying to couple with him, and for the past few weeks, he’d impulsively obliged their despicable caprices.

The party was every man’s greatest dream come true. The level of decadence guaranteed that anything and everything was permitted, the women pleasing and amenable, and rules and inhibitions abolished. Raw interaction and meaningless sex, copious, insignificant, unrefined intercourse, was not only tolerated under Pamela’s roof, but absolutely encouraged, with the prerequisite being that the people partaking of her hospitality were completely predisposed to misbehavior.

So what was this woman doing in Pamela’s house? What did she hope to accomplish by this maidenly display of offense?

Belowstairs, he’d stepped from the card room in order to stroll outside in the fresh air, when he’d been accosted by a buxom blonde who’d pulled him aside and whispered insistently that the auburn-haired virago standing in front of

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