Virginia Henley by Dream Lover

Author:Dream Lover [Lover, Dream]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Sean enjoyed the aftermath of the storm almost as much as the tempest itself. He lay supine, while Emerald lay prone, full upon him, her head cushioned on his chest. This was how he liked to make her, soft with surfeit. His hands absently stroked her bottom, his lips brushed the top of her head. He felt bemused, beguiled, bewitched. He warned himself not to become too possessive. Their time together was not infinite. It was a means to an end. And it would end, he reminded himself.

He felt his sex stir between their bodies. His appetite for this woman was seemingly insatiable. Would he never have enough of her? “I’m taking your brother and his crew back to England tomorrow. Will you come with me? Will you trust me to smuggle you in and out of London? I’m good at it.”

Her hand came up between their bodies to squeeze his shaft as it lengthened and swelled against her belly. “In and out, yes, you are good at that,” she teased, trying to put off the decision. To Emerald, London was synonymous with Montagues, and she never wanted to see either again. Yet the alternative was undesirable. She did not want to be separated from this man, not even for a few nights. She raised her face to his. “Must you go?”

He kissed the corners of her mouth. “I’ll keep you safe. Will you come?”

She knew she would follow him to the ends of the earth. The corners of her mouth turned up in a secret smile. “Persuade me.”

Sean O’Toole’s powers of persuasion were formidable, and not only with women. Before the Half Moon docked in London, the Montague crew, to a man, was secretly in his pay.

Emerald bade her brother a tearful good-bye. “Johnny, I’m worried to death about you. How will you face Father? He will be far more livid over losing the Swallow than losing me.”

Johnny kissed her brow. “He never really expected O’Toole to give you back, and as for the ship, he simply underestimated his enemy. It will be an expensive lesson. Don’t worry about me, Emerald. I haven’t looked after the Montague finances without feathering my own nest.”

Suddenly Emerald felt better about her brother’s situation. He had come a long way from the boy who was terrorized by his father.

As it turned out, the timing of John’s return proved most fortunate for him. King George had dismissed the Earl of Sandwich from his high post of first lord of the Admiralty because of the irrefutable charges leveled against him. John Montague found his father at his wits’ end.

“Thank God you’re back. We’re ruined! Thanks to the stupidity of my brother, the lucrative doors of the Admiralty are bolted against us. He’s been thrown from office because he had too many enemies who worked for his downfall; and his downfall is ours! The entire Montague family is in disgrace.”

“That is simply not true, Father. It is your brother who is in disgrace, not you. It is your brother who has been dismissed from high office by the king, not you.

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