You Only Love Once by Caroline Linden

Author:Caroline Linden
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

In the bedroom she closed the door behind him, then turned to him, studying him. Nate’s very skin seemed to stretch and prickle under her gaze, and the throbbing in his groin grew harder. “What would you have me do?” he asked, because he didn’t think he could stand there much longer doing nothing.

“I find it so interesting where a man keeps his weapons,” she murmured instead. Running one hand along his shoulder, she sauntered around him, her hips rolling. As they had been last night, two lamps were left burning in her room but turned down low, and a good fire crackled in the hearth. With a soft hiss, she pulled the knife from the sheath strapped at the back of his waist. “A good blade,” she said. He cast his eyes over his shoulder to see the gleam of his hunting knife in her hand as she turned it from side to side.

“A knife is no good without a sharp blade,” he said.

She smiled darkly. “No.” She laid the knife on the dressing table behind her. “What else? Apparently you have weapons I know nothing about.”

She meant the ether, which had been in his coat pocket along with a pistol. He didn’t have any more weapons on his person now. Nate gave her a slow, predatory smile. “Find them yourself.”

Somehow he stood motionless as she continued to circle him, first pulling away the dark kerchief around his neck with a sensual swish of silk, then unfastening his shirt. She gathered it up and slid her hands beneath it, up his back until she could push it over his head, and Nate had to grit his teeth to keep from coming in his trousers as her body pressed against his, from her breasts to her belly, even though she was still clothed. His breath was rasping in his throat by the time she let him remove his boots, and then his trousers.

Angelique knew she was playing with fire as she made him stand naked in front of her, his erection stiff and ready. His face was drawn taut, and his eyes never wavered from her as she moved about the room. She liked this. She liked having him await her pleasure. She liked having him, and by now her own body was hot and pulsing in anticipation. “Sit down,” she said.

Slowly he lowered himself onto the chair she indicated. The muscles of his shoulder tensed in hard lines as he laid his palms flat on his thighs, but still he waited for her instruction. She whisked the thin black cord from around her waist. “You held me down last night,” she murmured. “Give me your hand.” His jaw tightened as if he knew what she would do, but he put out his hand.

She knotted the rope around one wrist, then took both his arms behind the straight-backed chair and bound the wrists together, looping the rope through the slats of the chair. His chest filled with air, and his exhalations were harsh and loud in the dim, quiet room.

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