Wagers and Wallflowers 06 - Tempt Me, If You Dare by Clarke Alyssa

Author:Clarke, Alyssa [Clarke, Alyssa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance - Historical
Amazon: B08V4B4MW6
Publisher: Darkan Press Inc.
Published: 2022-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Phineas clasped a suddenly singing Felicity close to his chest and made his way down the hallway. Thankfully it was late, and the household and his guests should be abed.

“Where are you taking me, my lord?” she asked drowsily. “Remember,” she said in a faux whisper, for her damn voice rang down the hallway. “No matter how lovely you are, I am not yet ready for your ravishing cock.” She hiccupped. “I meant ravishment cock.”

He faltered as the most aghast gasp reached his ears. It shocked him to feel the tip of his ears burning when his nanna suddenly emerged in the hallway, clutching her cane in her hand, and followed by his mother. For a moment, he thought her eyes glittered with humor before her lashes lowered.

His mother cleared her throat. “Your grandmother was unable to sleep, so…” His mother simply stopped talking and stared at him, a slight blush dusting her cheeks.

His grandmother thumped the cane on the floor. “Well, my boy, is this the sort of lady you mean to make your countess?”

Felicity jolted in his arms, sat up and peered down at his grandmother, who moved closer, arching her brow at their intimacy.

“Oh, it’s nanna,” Felicity said with a soft moue of disappointment.

“Yes,” his grandmother said ominously. “Have you anticipated your marriage? Is that why you are speaking in this…unsupportable manner?”

His fake fiancée brightened. “Please do not worry, your ladyship; it was Phineas who only just taught me about cock, and in a few days—”

He kissed her, swallowing the scandalously damning words.

“Phineas!” his mother cried.

Ignoring that shocked cry, he lifted his head. Felicity was peering up at him with glassy eyes and parted lips. “Why did you stop me from telling nanna that we plan to—”

Bloody hell. He kissed her again. Almost afraid to allow her to speak, he kept his mouth on hers and walked past his shocked relatives. He released her mouth and started to laugh before he had even taken the first step up the stairs.

“You have a beautiful laugh, Phineas,” she gasped.

“You will never drink whisky again,” he vowed, moving as fast as possible to take them out of earshot of his mother and grandmother.

“Oh, I most certainly shall,” she said with a wide, indelicate yawn. “Are you afraid nanna will scold you if you inform her we are to gloriously tup? Are you worried about being terrible, my lord?”

Sweet mercy.

She patted his arm almost sympathetically and violently hiccupped. “Do not worry; Lucinda said, even if it is terrible, one must flatter their lover’s vanity. I will take care of you.”

She wouldn’t bloody dare. Felicity then snuggled into his embrace, and before he reached the landing, soft sounds puffed from her. “Truly remarkable,” he said, smiling.

Phin took her to her room and gently laid her down on the bed. The bottoms of her feet were stained with grass and seemed dirty. He collected the washbasin and tenderly cleaned the bottom of her feet and between her toes. That in itself was

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