A Reckless Desire by Isabella Bradford

Author:Isabella Bradford
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-29T16:00:00+00:00

There, he’d said that he loved her, even if it came by way of Hamlet. And he did love her, loved her in a way that he’d never loved any other woman.

She caught her breath, drawing back. “Do not taunt me like that, Rivers. I—I cannot bear it, not from you.”

“It wasn’t intended as taunting,” he said, surprised by her reaction. “Not at all.”

Her eyes swam with unshed tears, and her slender throat convulsed with emotion. “Then don’t say it as wretched, faithless Prince Hamlet, for I’ve no intention of falling from a tree and drowning myself. Say it for yourself.”

“I love you, Lucia,” he said, the words so simple and yet meaning so much. “I love you.”

“You are certain?” she asked, her voice no more than a breathless, broken whisper. “That you love me?”

“Never more certain of anything in my life,” he said firmly, not wanting to leave any doubt. “I love you, Lucia.”

She tried to smile as a single tear escaped to slide down her cheek and along her jaw. “And I love you, Rivers. I’m daft, I’m mad, I’m a fool to speak such a thing aloud, but—”

“You’re not,” he said. “Not at all.”

Before she could speak again, he tipped her back into the crook of his arm and kissed her, a kiss blistering with all the passion he’d been keeping bottled up within himself for these last weeks. He had his answer. He loved her, yes, but better, infinitely better, to learn that she loved him. It was all that mattered to him now, and all he’d left to do was to show her how much she meant to him, and how much he wanted her.

But with that handful of words, she was his now. Her full, ripe mouth was his to kiss and taste and relish as much as he wanted. Her round, full breasts would finally fill his hands as he’d so often imagined, her lithe legs would part for him, her body would rejoice with his as they truly made the love they’d just declared.

He couldn’t mistake her hunger as she kissed him, her little tongue darting against his as she made small happy moans of excitement that he felt rather than heard, vibrating between their mouths. Her hands were everywhere, blindly sliding under his coat and waistcoat and up along his back to his shoulders and down again over his spine, as if striving to learn every bit of his body.

It excited him, knowing her desire matched his. What little restraint he still possessed was rapidly fraying as she began to open the long row of buttons on his waistcoat, her fingers brushing against his chest. Impatiently he growled, and brushed one of her hands aside and cupped her breast, her flesh warm above the scarlet silk. Deftly he pulled the already-low neckline down farther, freeing both her breasts from the stiff boning of her stays, and immediately her nipples tightened against his palms. She shuddered, arching into his caress with a

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