Voyage with a Viscount by Emily Murdoch

Author:Emily Murdoch
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: 0
Published: 2019-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

V ision hazy, body tingling, James lay back with the most beautiful woman that he had ever known enwrapped in his arms. This, then, was what belonging felt like. This was what it was to connect beyond the physical. Exuberance and exultation poured through his veins as his heart pounded, trying to keep up with his exhausted mind.

How could he not glorify in the feeling of Rowena Kerr in his arms?

A chuckle – but not his.

“What are you laughing about?” He murmured as he tightened his arm slightly around the giggling woman making his whole body shake with her mirth.

Those large dark eyes turned up to look at him, and a bolt of love, pure love, there was no point denying it, shot through James.

“It looks like I was ruined after all,” breathed Rowena with a beaming smile.

James laughed in his turn. “Ah, but you have nothing to fear. You have my word that none shall hear of it, your secret is safe with me.”

And what was more, he meant it. How could he ever betray such a woman: fierce and strong, yet willing to be vulnerable? He would have no hand in her ruin, he…he cared for her too much.

He watched the long golden lashes flutter over her eyes as Rowena attempted to fight off sleep, and instinctively, James opened his mouth to speak, to keep her awake. One glance at her lithe form told him that he was more than capable of ravishing her again…

And then he stopped, when the realisation that he was in truth far more interested in continuing to talk to her than reclaiming his position over her body.

Well, they said it would happen eventually, thought James, heart swelling. Perhaps you did not consider that you would meet the love of your life on the road to Aylesbury, but here she is: the only woman you could ever consider as your equal in wit, merit, and far more beautiful than you would ever be described handsome.

He watched her start to drift, willingly, into sleep, and a frown rose across his forehead. It was almost painful to remind himself that they would be departing from each other in just a few short hours. The county crossroads were but ten miles off, taking Rowena Kerr in one direction, and James, Viscount of Paendly in another.

She would continue alone, and so would he.

As sleep threatened to overtake him as well, James wondered how their next meeting was ever to be arranged. Marriage was never something on the cards for him, it had just never appealed. But the thought of going the rest of his life without Rowena in it? It was unthinkable.

Unable to stave off approaching slumber any longer, the last thought before he fell asleep was whether he could install her anywhere convenient as his last, and most beloved, mistress.

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