Pleasuring The Pirate by Emily Bryan

Author:Emily Bryan [Emily Bryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781428505278
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Published: 2008-11-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Gabriel woke with her scent still in his nostrils. He almost always rose with a swollen cock, but this morning his erection was more insistent than usual. He was disappointed to find himself alone in the big bed. He didn’t remember Lyn leaving him, but the rest of his memories from last night were both vivid and fantastic. The old secret passages, the brittle stars overhead on the battlements and the hot, slick romp he and Jacquelyn had shared.

She’d been wondrously wanton. And adventurous. And far more passionate than he’d ever expected from a woman who prided herself on dignity and decorum. He wondered for a moment if the wild, loving Jacquelyn in his mind was just an erotic night phantom.

The long strand of ruddy brown hair on his pillow convinced him she was no dream.

“You little minx,” he said softly, remembering the heart-stopping bliss of her mouth on him.

Such a woman could bind a man to her so tightly, he’d never wish to be freed.

He wound the hair loosely around his finger and stared at it. Had she already wound herself around his heart?

Mayhap, but it wouldn’t matter, he told himself. Jacquelyn Wren might be a veritable Aphrodite by moonlight, but she was all Hera by day. The needs of the house hold would always come first.

Gabriel swung his legs out of bed, secreting the strand of hair—a small, tangible reminder of their night of passion—in the pocket of his breeches before he tugged them on. Jacquelyn tried to insist he have a valet, but he’d been dressing himself without assistance for so long, he had no patience for anyone fluttering about in his chamber.

Now if Lyn wants to volunteer for the position, I might be persuaded, he mused. No, that wouldn’t work. Aside from being scandalous, he was much too keen on being undressed by her to submit to a daily ritual of having her put on his clothing.

He knew she’d arranged for at least one potential bride to come for tea later today. With a grimace of resignation, he decided to make the best of things. He’d sip from his cup correctly and make inane small talk till he was ready to burst out of his skin, but he refused to let reality dampen his spirits.

Somehow, he’d have Lyn again, he vowed as he clubbed his hair back into a neat queue. She was a treasure worth claiming far more than once.

After all, the secret passage was all that separated them. And nightfall was a scant day away. Even with a loveless marriage looming, he’d still have Lyn. He just had to convince her such an arrangement would work.

Whistling through his teeth, he descended the stairs to face his day.

The pandemonium in the breakfast room was his first inkling that things might not go his way. He heard her voice before he saw her, quivering with righteous indignation.

“Mr. Meriwether! What on earth are you doing?” Jacquelyn demanded stridently. “What is the meaning of this?”

Gabriel stopped under the lintel to survey the scene.

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