Undone by His Kiss by Anabelle Bryant

Author:Anabelle Bryant [Bryant, Anabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781474035927
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The first rays of morning warmed the windows, dancing through the lace drapery to bring with them a rush of reality. Refusing to pay heed, Emily sank deeper into the mattress, and pulled the counterpane to her chin. She closed her eyes and laid her palm against her heart, recalling the evening before. A little sigh escaped. She’d never been so close to a man, the experience beyond description. If only she could share her feelings, but she knew all too well some things were best kept secret.

With reluctance, she slid from the sheets, donned her wrapper and slippers to protect from the chill, and tugged the bell pull to summon Mary. She had every intention to visit the Foundling Hospital and an early start presented the exact invigoration needed. One could always cleanse wayward sins with sincere charity work. The remembered lesson from her childhood proved beneficial now.

She dallied near the vanity mirror, wondering what Jasper could ever see in her appearance, then startled when Mary entered with a cheerful greeting and breakfast tray. She’d invite Portia and Thomasina to accompany her on this morning errand. Her friends had frequented the hospital on other occasions and the children enjoyed visitors, especially guests who arrived with baskets full of toys and treats. Remembering the young boy who’d been delivered to the hospital the last time she’d visited, Emily rummaged through her jewel box while Mary left and Agnes entered.

“Would you like to wear your persimmon walking gown this morning, Miss? Perhaps with your brown kidskin boots?”

Preoccupied with her search for the charm bracelet as she’d been anxious to climb into bed and silence her confusion last night, she hardly heard the question. An unwelcome flush stole up her neck. What if she was like her mother, blinded by emotion and weakened by love rather than the independent thinker she prided herself to be? Wasn’t that the reason she’d established the league? To assist females in having the same opportunities as men? A vision for the future that included choices beyond marriage and breeding? She couldn’t forget her purpose. She wouldn’t forget. She should remember her goal as conspicuously as she recalled every nuance of her hand upon Jasper’s hard chest.

“Miss?”

She nodded in agreement, more to quiet Agnes than in preference to her wardrobe, and settled on the stool to finish her morning toilette, the charm bracelet linked around her wrist. Still her thoughts and fears wouldn’t calm and as her maid arranged her hair, doubt and suspicion poked holes in her resolve.

The evening spent with Jasper had intrigued her, inspired and affected her with newborn emotion, so impactful and profound something in her shifted, the new sentiment fearless and determined to wind its way into her innermost depths leaving her soul forever altered. What they’d shared equated more than conversation and a kiss. A mind-spinning, devastatingly wonderful kiss. When she’d seen his apartments and the unique, intelligent manner in which he approached life as if it was a puzzle to solve or discovery to document, affection unfurled with intense yearning.

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