Under a Christmas Sky by Sharon Sobel

Author:Sharon Sobel [Sobel, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BelleBooks Inc.
Published: 2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

JULIA AWOKE AGAINST something hard and thought she might have fallen asleep on one of the blocks of marble in Laurentia’s studio. The last thing she remembered was practicing her songs in the stillness of the night, surrounded by an audience of half-formed figures and chiseled bits of white stone.

And then the marble on which she lay moved, just slightly, and her memory was startled into recalling other things. She opened her eyes.

Her cheek was on Will’s broad chest, rising and falling with each breath he took. With each rise, she took stock of their surroundings, and decided that the absence of flowered dimity and lace suggested they were in a man’s bedchamber. Will’s bedchamber. Or, at least, the one he was assigned while at the Seabury Christmas party.

It was a fine room, but it did not matter. The passionate pleasures they shared last night had nothing to do with the furnishings or the comfort of the overstuffed mattress. They could have been anywhere—including a cramped coach—so long as they were together and did the things they did. Julia blushed just thinking about it. Leighton had been dead for only eighteen months, but she had already forgotten it could be like this.

But then, it had never been quite like this.

“Do you suppose we can manage to be snowbound for another few months?” Julia heard Will’s voice vibrate deeply in his chest.

She shifted so she could look over the rumpled bedding to the window and, not surprisingly, it was still snowing. “You may have your wish, Will, but I doubt it will go unnoticed if we do not join the others for Christmas. Laurentia will be quite put off, and instruct the servants to push us out the door. As it is, we may not have more than an hour left to us this morning.”

“Then I suggest we use it to our best advantage,” Will said, and rolled her onto her back. She looked up at him, at his hair falling over his forehead, at the light shadow of his beard, at his half-closed eyes. “And to think that I called you ‘Lady Frost’ when first we met.”

He melted any resistance that might have remained. It did not matter that she felt aching and sore, and very much loved. It also did not matter that she would be perfectly happy to be snowbound with him for years and years to come. But they were guests in the home of her sister and brother-in-law, and it was Christmas, and there was much to be done. Already, the sounds of servants and perhaps a few sleep-deprived guests could be heard in the hall.

She pushed him, gently, but he obediently rolled on his back, taking her with him. “I intend to use everything to my advantage, dear Lord Willem, and have every expectation that you will indulge me. And so, I will ask that you wait until this evening, when the house is once again quiet, and the night is dark. In the meantime, we shall behave as if there is nothing particular between us.

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