What a Lady Demands by Ashlyn Macnamara & Ashlyn Macnamara

Author:Ashlyn Macnamara & Ashlyn Macnamara [Macnamara, Ashlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Cecelia could not believe his reaction. How in heaven had she gone from being fired to Lind’s tongue twining with hers? Thank goodness he wasn’t sending her packing. That he’d chosen to act on his attraction. That, at least for now, he was just as drawn to her as she was to him.

The intensity behind this kiss belonged to a desperate man seeking the sort of oblivion offered only by a passionate encounter in bed. Or on his desk. Or up against the wall. Bitter experience had taught her that sort of escape was merely temporary. She ought to have learned better by now. She could not give Lind what he was seeking with any kind of permanency.

Nor would he give her what she really wanted.

And what was that? She hardly knew anymore. At one time, she’d hoped for home and hearth, even if it did have to come in the form of an older man like Anstruther. He could have at least offered her a modicum of protection. But even that slim hope lay beyond her reach.

Lind might well lose himself in her body for a few stolen moments, but he, too, would come to his senses. And worse, he’d have concrete proof she’d misrepresented herself to him.

She really ought to push him away, but it was difficult to school her mind into submission with his tongue tracing such a delicious pattern against hers. Besides, ever since she’d caught her first glimpse of him naked, she’d fantasized about this moment. She’d never have this chance again.

So she wrapped her arms more tightly about him, pulled him closer, and responded to his kiss as she’d never responded to any other. She spread her hands across his back, beneath his topcoat, and reveled in the play of muscle under the wool of his waistcoat and the fine linen of his shirt. She’d seen Lind naked and glistening under the morning sun. She could have that sight again, with the added advantage of being permitted to touch, of being able to slide her bare skin against his while he filled her. While he drove them both to crisis.

Good heavens, the very thought had her hips moving against his, seeking the friction they both needed. And if she wasn’t careful, this would all be over disappointingly soon. She pulled back with both lips and hands, but he followed, setting his tongue to the base of her throat and bending her back. She let out a throaty moan. He’d have her on his desk before she knew it.

“Wait,” she breathed.

“No, don’t tell me you want to stop.”

Good Lord, that was Lind, and he was all but begging her. This proud, arrogant man, and she nearly had him on his knees. She was taking an awful risk here, because if she let him think, he might recall all the reasons he ought to send her on her way rather than continue this interlude.

“I didn’t say that.” Smiling, she let her fingers drift toward his collar to toy with his cravat.

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