Honor and Secrets by Sahara Kelly

Author:Sahara Kelly
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-09-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Freddie absent-mindedly watched the sun as it dipped behind a few clouds gathering in the skies above her. Her arse was sore and stiff, and she couldn’t remember the last time she’d ridden for so long. It showed too.

Peter was slightly ahead of her, relaxed in his saddle, and riding as if he’d been born to it. Well, stupid, he had.

They’d left the riverbank and headed into the morning, Peter smiling and chatting about nothing in particular, and she…what was she?

She was confused.

She wanted to rest her head on his shoulder and let her troubles vanish for a while. She wanted to find that happiness she’d known as a child, chasing around after Peter, and sometimes Mark, as they’d created all kinds of adventures for themselves. She wanted to tell him that he’d stolen something very special from her when he’d come to say goodbye on that fateful night so long ago.

When he’d left and dropped a light kiss on her lips. Not her cheek or her forehead, but her lips. She’d been so young, so angry at him for leaving, for being so stupid as to kill a man in a duel and get himself sent out of the country.

And so damned in love with him she couldn’t stand herself. And now?

One glance from his gorgeous eyes and she could feel herself tumbling headfirst off the edge of a precipice all over again.

Dammit. She wouldn’t let her heart get involved and shattered once more. She would not love him. She would not love anybody.

But she ached. She knew what lovemaking entailed now, and what pleasures it could offer.

She licked her lips. The thought of Peter, naked and aroused and leaning over her was one hell of an image. And he had yet to tell her what he’d been doing with his life. She’d bared her soul, told him every darn thing, and he’d been tight-lipped as a clam.

Well, that was going to change. As soon as she got off this damned horse and stretched out the muscles that were kinking at the base of her spine.

Freddie’s thoughts scampered around like bewildered rabbits. To have sunk so low and yet to be so free. It was an odd combination of horror and joy.

Shamed before the country society she’d grown up in, and yet freed of the restrictions she’d chafed against for so long.

Able to travel anywhere she wished on a whim, without the confining presence of groom or relative, and yet unable to go anywhere at all, since she was now pretty much “nothing” in the eyes of the world.

She chuckled to herself. Life was full of contradictions.

Peter was certainly one of them.

He turned slightly and flashed a grin back at her, keeping the pace steady and the horses comfortable. It was a good way to travel over long distancestiring neither mount nor rider, but inexorably heading for one’s goal.

His smile warmed her heart. And other places.

She licked her lips once more, almost unconsciously this time. She wanted him.

And

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