[Scandalous 02] - Highland Scandal by Julia London

Author:Julia London [London, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2012-02-05T18:04:19+00:00

Later that night, when she finally reached her bed, Lizzie tried to think of Mr. Gordon. But every conscious thought was obliterated by the memory of Jack's hands on her body, the smoldering look in his eye. She could not stop imagining those hands on her bare skin, those eyes raking over her naked body…

The room was stifling. Lizzie threw back the heavy covers and climbed out of bed. She looked at the dressing room door. Through that door, Jack lay sleeping. Lizzie padded across the rug to the door of the dressing room and pressed her palm against it, just as he had pressed his palm against her back. She leaned forward, rested her cheek against it.

Lizzie didn't know what she expected, but she didn't hear anything. Yet she stood there nonetheless, her eyes closed, her cheek against the door, reliving the waltz step by step. She toyed with the idea of stepping through, to him. But she lacked the courage and the desire to ruin herself completely.

She returned to her bed restive and out of sorts. She sought sleep by whispering Mr. Gordon's name over and over. He was her only hope, the only salve to the laceration Jack had lashed across her life. Before Jack had come into her life, she'd been happy—at least as happy as one could be, facing the poorhouse and the constant worry of how to care for Charlotte—she'd been free, and she'd been happy. But she'd felt an oddly enticing unrest since she'd been put upon that dais beside Jack.

Mr. Gordon. Mr. Gordon needed to come soon, before Lizzie fell from grace and did something so wildly reckless that she would live to regret it all her days.

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