Mysterious Miss Channing by Nadine Millard

Author:Nadine Millard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

CHARLES WONDERED IF SHE could feel his heart pound as he pulled her closer and pressed his mouth to hers.

The feelings of rightness when he held her like this was like nothing he’d ever experienced.

He could not quite believe that he had been so open with her, that he had told her of his past.

But he was coming to realise that where Julia was concerned, he had no defences. She got under his skin and made him want to be open and honest. Made him want to be a better man. A man worthy of her affections.

Julia’s mouth opened on a sigh, and Charles took the opportunity to deepen the kiss. He felt her arms lift to wind round his neck and growled his pleasure. Her answering moan was his undoing.

The damned piano bench, he now realised, was not built for seduction. The angle was awkward, and Charles desperately needed to feel her warm, inviting body pressed against his.

Without breaking the kiss, Charles reached round and lifted Julia from the bench and deposited her on his lap.

He felt her gasp of surprise against his lips, but she did not pull away.

God, he could drown in her.

His mouth moved from hers to kiss a blazing trail down her neck. His hands roamed over her, learning her curves, desperate to feel her flesh without the barrier of clothes.

Somewhere in the back of his mind, a voice was telling him to slow down. That she was an innocent. But the voice was being drowned in the flood of desire fuelling his touch, his kiss.

His lips found her ear, and when his tongue darted out to lick the sensitive spot behind the lobe, she cried out and pushed herself closer still.

Charles groaned in response.

If she moved again, he would lose all control and ruin her. He did not want that for her.

God, what the hell was he thinking? Was he really going to take her on a too small piano bench in the damned music room?

She deserved more. Deserved better.

Just as he was preparing himself to distance their bodies, he heard his name on her lips, whispering, pleading.

Well, hell. A man was only so strong.

His mouth found hers again, and this time, she met his passion with her own, equally strong. Her small hands began their own exploration, driving him mad as they smoothed over his shoulders, down his torso as Charles’s moved to untie her dressing gown.

He was past rational thought. A piano bench suddenly seemed like the most logical thing in the world to make love on.

“Ouch.” The sound of a disgruntled voice on the stairs followed by an audible thump and then a few choice swear words brought Charles crashing back down to earth.

He almost fell over between setting Julia away from him and jumping up from the bench.

They didn’t speak a word, though their eyes remained on each other.

Charles struggled to get his breathing and his body back under some sort of control.

Hell and damnation! What had he been thinking?

If someone had come in here, he would have completely destroyed Julia’s reputation.

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