Celeste Bradley - [The Liar's Club 02] by The Impostor

Author:The Impostor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The room no longer spun about her, yet Clara’s mind still whirled. What she had done should have been unthinkable. To take a veritable stranger for a lover?

Why did she feel no shame at all?

In fact, she felt the opposite. Bliss, perhaps. Or possibly even… hope. As if her weary heart had finally bloomed in the warmth—the heat—of his desire for her.

Outlandish plans swam through her mind, the kind she’d not dared believe in since her girlhood. She could go, right now with Monty. Marry him and five in some tiny room and live on nothing but love.

That was being a bit dramatic, of course. She did have some funds tucked away, and she was sure that with a bit of encouragement Monty would see the sense in a more conventional career.

Of course, he hadn’t asked her to run away with him. But he’d said that if things were different…

You’ve never even seen his face.

Clara sighed. The tiresome little voice was right. Perhaps she was being premature. She rolled over into the warmth of Monty’s body and rose onto her elbows next to him.

He was dozing in the moonlight, mask and all. His beautiful body was covered only by the merest corner of the velvet draperies. She eyed that small modesty for a moment, then flicked it from him with a snap.

“Hey, there!” His eyes opened and he grinned at her. “And here I was worried you’d be all proper again.” He gave her own velvet covering a tug. “Sauce for the goose, now.”

Clara laughed and allowed him to slide the cover to her waist. Then she put one hand over his to stop him.

“‘Tisn’t gentlemanly, me being all naked when you’re not.”

He looked down at himself in surprise. Clara tapped her own cheekbone meaningfully. “What kind of woman does that make me, when I’ve never even seen your face?”

He raised one hand to his mask. When he hesitated, Clara’s heart began to twist. Then he gave her a sheepish grin.

“Forgot I had it on.”

“Oh, so you weren’t born with it, then?” She poked at him as she teased. He retorted by wrapping one big hand around the back of her neck and pulling her down for a kiss that made her knees go weak and her legs fall open involuntarily. When she opened her eyes, the mask was gone. There was only him in the moonlight, every plane of his face as familiar as her own.

The pain was fierce and immediate as her heart broke quite cleanly in two.

Dalton waited in silence for her reaction, but except for a widening of her eyes he could see no change in her expression. He shifted slightly. Finally he had to break the silence. “You don’t like what you see?”

“You’re perfect,” she whispered. “Quite the most handsome man I’ve ever seen.”

Dalton raised his head to kiss her again. Her lips were cool for a moment, then warmed fiercely under his. He rolled her over, his erection rising instantly in response to the feel of her beneath him.

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