Lost in Pleasure by Marguerite Kaye - Lost in Pleasure

Author:Marguerite Kaye - Lost in Pleasure [Kaye, Marguerite]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, General, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9781460307427
Google: rkyyUXjbWo0C
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Goodreads: 17324337
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

The slow descent into morbidity to which he had become accustomed didn’t materialise. It didn’t even register. Richard lay naked on the floor of his own library with a woman who wouldn’t be born for nearly two hundred years and felt as if he had been rejuvenated. ‘Wow,’ he said, using Errin’s own word and grinning at the strangeness of it. ‘Wow. Did I get that right?’

‘You got everything right,’ Errin replied with a sleepily sated smile.

‘I’m not the only one. I’ve never known a woman who could enjoy intimacy with such relish.’

Errin blushed. ‘You mean I was too...’

‘You were perfect,’ Richard said, marvelling at the way bliss engendered such easy frankness.

‘I didn’t know it could be like this.’

‘I know.’ And he believed her. He was not her first, but it felt as if he was. No one had done to her what he had done. No one had made him feel what she had made him feel. ‘I know,’ Richard repeated uneasily. Because what would happen now?

Errin seemed to sense his change of mood, for she sat up and reached for her underwear, pulling it on hastily, followed too quickly by the rest of her clothing.

Richard too sat up and began to dress, his elation settling into something more sombre as reality reasserted itself. ‘We’ve been pretending that this situation is normal, but it’s not. We can’t keep ignoring...’

‘The elephant in the room.’

‘I’m not even going to ask,’ Richard said, his expression one of sheer bafflement. ‘You claim you got here by sitting in my armchair, but that’s preposterous.’

‘I know, but it’s also true.’

‘And completely illogical, not to say scientifically impossible.’

‘I know that too.’ Errin pulled on her boots and fastened her jacket. ‘But it’s what happened all the same. You said you believed me.’

‘I know, but I realise now I was carried away by the strangeness of the situation. As a man of science, I should have known it was not sufficient simply to eliminate other possibilities. Without evidence, such an explanation can only be surmise, not proof.’

‘Fine. Then I’ll prove it to you.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘I’ll repeat the experiment, of course.’ Without giving herself time to think about it, Errin flung herself into the wingback chair. Nothing happened for a few seconds, long enough for her to begin to panic. What if she couldn’t get back? And if she did—she didn’t want it to end like this, on a sour note without time for goodbyes. ‘Richard,’ she said, ‘can’t we just...?’

But it was too late. The chair enveloped her. She couldn’t get up. Her eyes were forced closed. When she finally got them open again he was gone, and she was back in Pandora’s Box, and her watch showed her that only about a minute had elapsed.

Maybe it had been a dream after all? And maybe, Errin thought sadly, that was for the best, for where did the alternative leave her? Bemused and confused, she left the shop and headed back to her hotel, where, after a long soak in a piping-hot bath, jet lag caught up with her.

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