Winning the Gentleman by Kristi Ann Hunter

Author:Kristi Ann Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Fiction;FIC042110;FIC042030;FIC027070
ISBN: 9781493429950
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2021-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

First the woman scrambled his thoughts with her onslaught of words and now she was addling his brain, sending his senses rioting with the press of her lips against his.

His shoulders were hunched over, weighed down by the pull of her fists on his jacket, but he was more than strong enough to lift himself away.

At least he should have been.

Her grip slackened, but still he didn’t straighten. He stayed, head lowered, the hand on her shoulder sliding until it braced against her upper back, pulling her forward, closer.

Her mouth shifted against his, no longer smashing tightly against his teeth but leaving their lips connected in a way that made him forget everything else. Forget that she’d lied, forget they were crammed into a corner of a falling-down cottage with a horse that may or may not be stolen, forget that she’d made his already tenuous life more difficult.

Or maybe he hadn’t forgotten so much as he no longer cared.

The skim of her hands sliding against his face tossed his thoughts sideways again. She cupped his jaw, the roughness of the stubble on his cheeks keeping her movements from being too fluid, but the pull made it impossible to ignore. When was the last time someone had touched his face? He even did his own shaving.

Her fingers brushed his ear, the sensation strange and new enough to break through his trance and provide the presence of mind to lift his head. He didn’t go far, as his arms had done more traveling than he’d realized and were wrapped solidly around her, keeping them pressed together as their rough breathing joined the shuffling noises of the horse beside them.

Her eyes were wide and round, as if she was as stunned as he was, even though she’d initiated the kiss.

“That isn’t how I meant to convince you,” she whispered.

“That isn’t why I believe you,” he answered, knowing it was true. Somewhere in the rant of words tripping over themselves far too quickly to be false, he’d concluded that she was telling the truth.

Despite the fact that what he wanted most at this moment was to dip his head and kiss her again, removing her lips from his had allowed a trickle of sanity to return to his mind. She may be telling the truth about the horse and accepting his job offer, but she was still attempting to hide the presence of the brother.

She shifted, drawing his attention to how she was still wrapped in his arms. She licked her lips, and his senses threatened to slide away once more. He couldn’t seem to look away, couldn’t help but analyze and measure the rest of her expression to determine what she was thinking.

He could feel her too, could feel that she wasn’t trying to pull away any more than he was. One of them needed to end this embrace, and as had been the case his entire life, Aaron could depend on no one aside from himself to do what needed to be done.

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