All About Passion by Stephanie Laurens

Author:Stephanie Laurens
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780061760211
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-10-18T07:41:11+00:00

They lay there, still joined, and let the minutes tick by, neither willing to move, to disturb the moment. To cut short the deep peace that intimacy brought them.

Gyles stroked her head, fingers tangling with the long, trailing curls spilling from her topknot.

He hadn’t bargained for this—not for any of it. Not for her passion, not for her intelligence—not for her love.

That precious something she was determined to give him, that part of him desperately wanted to claim. But . . . he was unsure he could pay her price. He knew what it was, what she wanted in return, and did not, even now, after four days of considering, know if he could give it to her.

She was a chance he wasn’t sure he could take, yet he knew he would never get a better one. Meet a woman more compelling, one more deserving of his trust.

Honesty, sincerity—an inherent integrity. The passionate wanton who set him alight and his beautiful, assured countess were one and the same. Neither role was assumed; both were different facets of her true character. That was why people responded to her so readily—there was no falseness in her.

Understanding her, learning more of her, knowing more of her, had become an obsession just as much as possessing her physically had been. Still was.

He sensed the soft huff of her breathing, continued to stroke her hair. Continued to stare out of the window.

The barbarian within him wanted to give her what she wanted, and claim in return all she was offering him. Or, at the very least, try. The careful, rational gentleman vowed even trying was too risky. What if he succeeded? How would he cope then?

Yet denying her was beyond him—he, and she, had just proved it. A wise man holding to the arguments he’d espoused would have kept his distance other than in the bedroom.

He hadn’t. He couldn’t. He would have to try a different tack. At the very least, he could search for a compromise, if such a thing was to be found. That much he owed her.

Owed himself, perhaps.

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