Candice Hern by Once a Dreamer

Author:Once a Dreamer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-06-08T12:34:46+00:00

A message from Hackett had arrived during the night reporting that the runaways had been seen in Manchester. Simon and Eleanor got an early start, before any of the sporting set had risen, so there was nothing to slow them in leaving Buxton.

Simon had not slept well due to the raucous reveling into the wee hours of dawn. He suspected Eleanor was equally exhausted. She barely spoke, and her jaw was set in a tense angle, the full lips thinned in a tight line.

Simon had spent his waking hours reliving those brief moments when he’d held her in his arms and kissed her. Lord, what a kiss it had been. The need of the moment had stripped away all his control. It had been a ruthless plundering of her mouth, a blistering moment of pure animal lust. But it was the kiss that had almost happened he regretted the most. By then, he had regained his wits and was ready to do a proper job of it, with tenderness and finesse. The look in her eyes told him she knew this time would be different.

Even after that pregnant moment had been interrupted by Malcolm, Simon had felt a change in her. Before, when he had sensed her admiration after pulling the carriage from the mud, she had regained her composure, her damnable control, rather quickly. She had not allowed admiration or attraction to discomfit her. This time, she had not been so quick to throw out her hedgehog spines. She had sent him admiring glances all evening. He had even sensed something more. Interest? Desire?

His poet’s heart soared at the very idea. Or was he simply so smitten that he only imagined it?

In frustration, and despite the memory of his brother’s teasing voice, Simon had worked during the night on his ode to Eleanor’s upper lip.

Like a ruby set in the ivory face

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