Lust: The Bad Earl (Seven Deadly Sins Book 2) by Christi Caldwell

Author:Christi Caldwell [Caldwell, Christi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christi Caldwell Inc.
Published: 2024-08-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

I still marvel at the fact he, the Duke of Argyll, believed I, his wife, a good, respectable, lady would ever visit a place so scandalous.

~ The Duchess of A

Sprawled on her hostess’s pretty sofa, with her rumpled skirts rucked about her waist, and Severin prone before her, Raina made a discovery.

She wanted Severin Cadogan.

She wanted him, not just as the skillful lover, and only man, who could ease the agonized throbbing between her legs.

She wanted him, Severin Cadogan, the Earl of Killburn—blunt, honest, and unapologetic. He wasn’t the polite, proper, tender gentleman she’d imagined she wanted.

Where Raina had existed in a self-doubting state, worrying over people’s ill opinions, and fearing who she might be, she’d simply existed and not lived.

Unlike Severin. Confident and self-assured, he made no apologies for the things he’d done, and in every way, owned he was, and it was impossible not to love such an impenitent man.

It was why she had no pride around him, and even less so when he had his hands or mouth upon her.

For years, Raina had wondered, and worried over the question as to whether she was a wanton like her mother. She’d feared society’s opinion of her.

Now, however, with this bold, strong, powerful man, kneeling between her thighs, and pleasuring her so, she, at last, realized—she didn’t care what the world thought. She didn’t care about what decisions her mother made.

The duchess’s decisions hadn’t been Raina’s.

Raina’s life was her own.

Cadogan had set her free of the chains in which she’d bound herself.

Severin flicked his tongue teasingly over some over-sensitized place between her legs, bringing her back to the moment.

Raina cried out. Of their own volition, her hips shot up.

Severin paused his efforts and tipped his face up enough to flash Raina a smile.

“Where have you gone, sweet?”

The tender way he spoke and the grin he wore, was not the practiced, hard, empty one that too often grazed his lips.

She tipped her head to the side and contemplated him. This smile, so real, and teeming with benevolence and warmth, and it was as though, only during this love act that he could truly let his defenses down.

He grunted. “What?” he demanded, all harsh roughness once more.

Still off-kilter, Raina shook her head. “It’s…” This glimpse of you. Only, she couldn’t say that. Not without scaring him off completely.

An impatient growl rolled past his lips.

“Nothing,” she murmured. “It is nothing.” It was everything.

His sharp, angular features fell back into a familiar mask, and yet, he’d let it slip. He’d revealed that hidden inside, existed a man capable of warmth and tenderness.

It was like the shooting star she’d once seen flying across the Kent sky, one summer—so fleeting, but magical and magnificent—a chimerical sight too wondrous to ever be forgotten.

“Shall I stop?” he jeered.

Raina caressed her fingers along the jagged, puckered, red scar upon his cheek. “Do not stop, Severin,” she said softly.

Passion blazed to life in his eyes.

He pressed a fierce kiss against her inner thigh, and then took that flesh

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