Lady Scandal by Wendy LaCapra

Author:Wendy LaCapra
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Entangled Scandalous
Published: 2015-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Sophia tightened her arms as Randolph eased away. If he untangled their bodies, the magic would end.

“I will crush you, sweetness.”

“I do not care,” she replied against his shoulder. “Just stay.”

“I told you before,” he lifted his head to look into her eyes, “I am not going anywhere.”

Her sweat-dampened hair stuck to her cheeks and neck. From his aspect, she must look a disheveled, wanton fright.

“Perhaps you had better unpin me after all.”

He rolled onto his back. She propped her head on her elbow. She loosened her hair from her cheeks and swept her curls over her shoulder.

He smirked. “I liked you fine before.”

She blushed. “A lady well-pleasured?”

“My lady well-pleasured.”

He was a beautiful man. He had given her an incredible experience. She could not possibly tell him how deeply she had been moved. But was she his?

“Strange thoughts,” he said, “are playing across your face.”

“No thoughts of significance.”

“Oh I doubt that.” He smirked. “You have the look of a woman plotting.”

“Honestly, Randolph, I haven’t the energy to plot.”

“Neither do I.” He sunk into his pillow, and fixed his gaze on the ceiling. “That was…”

Her heart leapt up—

“…exhausting.”

—and plummeted.

Of course, he had not felt the same connective sense of mystery. He was a man, after all.

Her first husband had enjoyed her body—but never once had her charms inspired him to proclaim a deeper affection. His detachment had never caused her heart to twist as her heart was twisting now, because he had not enthralled her the same way as Randolph.

Oh damn.

She was more than enthralled with Randolph, wasn’t she?

Bad. Bad. Very, very bad.

“Soon,” she stated the obvious, “we will have to return to London.”

“Eventually.”

“Aren’t you worried about Kasai?”

He turned, his shadowed gaze hollow. “He never leaves my thoughts.”

She never thought she could be jealous of a killer, but there jealousy was—hot and oozy beneath her ribs.

He leaned over and kissed her forehead. “Nor do you.”

She sent him a dubious glance. “You say what you think I want to hear.”

He searched her eyes for a long, silent moment, then sighed. “Perhaps your untrusting nature will one day work to our advantage.”

Oh, this was worse than very bad. She wanted him to talk. Then, she wanted him to stop talking. She wanted him to keep his promise to stay by her side. Then, she wanted to be as far away from him as possible.

What the devil? She could not parse her conflicting feelings alone. She needed the Furies—if Lavinia could not help, Thea would have thoughts on the subject.

…Thea had thoughts on every subject. She smiled, somehow comforted by the thought of her female friends. “I miss my Furies.”

“You are thinking of the Furies.” His voice was wry with self-depreciation. “And here I believed you dazzled by my erotic skill or, at least, my sartorial ingenuity.”

The dancing flame on the cruise lamp cast Randolph’s features in a softening glow. Sophia let her gaze run along the faint laugh-lines at the corners of his eyes. She had no idea when he was teasing and when he was speaking the truth.

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