Forgotten Fiancee by Jillian Eaton

Author:Jillian Eaton [Eaton, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bay Horse
Published: 2014-11-03T06:00:00+00:00

“What does a kiss feel like?” Her cornflower blue eyes as wide as he’d ever seen them, Dianna fidgeted anxiously from foot to foot, twisting the bonnet she held in her hands until it was little more than a crumpled scrap of muslin and bent feathers.

“A kiss?” Miles scoffed even as his heartbeat accelerated inside of his chest. Thump thump. Thump thump. Lifting a long, lanky arm over his head he grabbed hold of a tree branch, calloused fingertips digging into the smooth bark. “Everyone knows what a kiss feels like. I’ve kissed you before, remember?”

All around them people talked and laughed quietly in groups of twos and threes, enjoying the picnic held on the sprawling back lawn of his family’s country estate. For most of the afternoon he’d managed to avoid his pesky fiancée, but after dessert she’d finally cornered him under the long rustling bows of a willow tree.

Dianna bit her lip. “I don’t,” she admitted shyly, peering up at him beneath a dusky fringe of golden lashes. “And you kissed me on the cheek. It didn’t count.”

Miles felt his stomach slowly tighten into one hard knot. Another part of his anatomy was growing hard as well, and he hoped his trousers were loose enough to disguise it. “It feels… good,” he said after a pause, for the truth of the matter was that he’d only experienced four kisses of his own, and none of them had been particularly memorable except for the one he stolen from one of the tavern wenches in town and then only because he’d earned a ringing slap for his trouble. “Do you want to see if there is any chocolate cake left?” he asked in a not-so-subtle attempt to change the subject.

Kisses were just one of those things a young man did not feel comfortable discussing with a lady, and certainly not a lady like Dianna. She was too… nice. Yes, that was it, Miles decided as he studied her rapidly flushing countenance. And he’d known her too long. Since they were infants, practically. Which made her more of a sister than a fiancee, and any discussions on kissing taboo, even if one day they would be expected to kiss quite a great deal.

Unfortunately, Dianna did not seem to share his opinion and even though her round cheeks had turned red as tomatoes and her bonnet was irreparably ruined, she persisted with her chosen topic. “How good did it feel?”

“How good did what feel?” Miles said evasively.

“The kiss, silly! How good did the kiss feel?”

“Keep your voice down,” he hissed, his own face taking on a warmer hue as he imagined one of his friends overhearing their discussion. How they would laugh! As if they didn’t laugh enough as it was. As the only fifteen-year-old boy in all of England to already be engaged (at least, that is what it felt like) Miles had endured his fair share of jokes and jests. He certainly didn’t think it was amusing, but if he

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