Christmas with a Czar by Murdoch Emily E K

Author:Murdoch, Emily E K
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Maxim tried to pull breath into his lungs, but no matter how much air he took in, it was not enough.

Dear God, that it was possible to experience something like that, a closeness, an intimacy, a pleasure like that with a woman – and all the same woman!

He glanced at her, dark hair wild and her own breathing heavy. Annika Marsh. She is everything he could have wanted, everything he could have imagined.

How was it possible that she knew not only how to please him, but also to take her own pleasure?

She was the perfect woman; all the elegance of the English with all the fire of the Russians. If he did not have a Czardom to claim, he would sneak her across London to a little Orthodox chapel he knew, and marry her immediately.

“This cannot be real.”

Her words were soft, breathed rather than spoken, and he laughed as he pulled her closer.

“I have to be honest,” he said quietly, “I was more worried that you would be in pain than in pleasure.”

“I have never,” she began, and then hesitated before continuing in a less controlled voice, “never experienced anything…anything like this.”

If he had heard words like that from anyone else – and if he were honest, he had – he would have found his ego inflating, to know he had given such sensual delight to a lady.

But not with Annika. All he felt was relief, and joy that she had experienced ecstasy. She was important – far more important than he had realised before she had stepped into his room this evening.

Not only important, but precious. He felt honoured, as though he had been given a precious gift, that it had been he to give her that first experience of intimacy between a gentleman and a lady.

She shifted slightly in his arms, and Maxim could feel himself stiffen at the very thought of a repeat experience. No, he must be controlled. Though she was not sore now, she certainly would be if he took his pleasure and plunged into her again.

“Well,” Annika whispered, tracing an invisible line across his chest with a finger, “that was a secret worth knowing.”

Maxim smiled. “Plenty more where that one came from.”

She did not respond, her eyes lowered to watch her finger move.

He continued, “You must have secrets too, Annika, even if they are only little, womanly ones.”

“Every woman is entitled to her own secrets,” she said quietly.

Maxim nodded. “Of course, but you must remember that in the bedchamber, that is the perfect time to share secrets. Why, it is only the two of us, and neither of us will ever mention this to another. Consider it a Christmas gift to me. Tell me…”

His voice trailed away. He had glanced down, and Annika’s eyelashes had fluttered shut. Her breathing was steady, and he watched her slip into slumberland in his arms.

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