Portrait of a Scandal by Annie Burrows

Author:Annie Burrows [Annie Burrows]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780263239690
Google: VasiAQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00EFPO2S2
Barnesnoble: B00EFPO2S2
Goodreads: 18792775
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

They hurried back to his rooms as fast as they could.

‘I’m not going to have any breath left for lovemaking by the time we’ve climbed up all these stairs,’ Amethyst grumbled as they reached the first landing.

‘You won’t need to do a thing,’ he promised her. ‘Just lie back on the bed and let me do all the work.’

And he did.

Amy had never had so much attention devoted to her. So much care lavished on her body. Even before he entered her and took her to the heights, it felt really meaningful. What they were doing together was so incredible, so wonderful, so much more than anything she’d ever known she could experience that, yes, if she was a naïve, young, uneducated female, she might have mistaken it for love.

Especially since he gave himself to it with such...enthusiasm.

‘Amy, Amy, oh God, Amy!’

Nathan’s whole body shuddered as he groaned his release. He slumped to one side of her, gathered her in his arms and buried his face in her hair.

No wonder, she sighed, turning and wrapping her arms round his neck, women so very often mistook the attentions of a passionate lover for something deeper. He had made her feel loved.

And for the first time in her life, she hadn’t had to do anything to earn it, either.

‘Why so solemn?’

He’d opened his eyes and was watching her, she discovered. When she didn’t know what to answer, he smiled and gently traced the fullness of her lower lip with one finger.

‘You are full of contrasts, are you not? Nobody, seeing you so solemn after giving yourself to me, would believe you are the same woman who was so playful earlier tonight, when most people would have been trying to impress.’

‘What are you trying to say?’

He shrugged. ‘Just that there are so many sides to you I never knew existed when...when I knew you before.’

‘I am not the same person I was back then.’ In fact, she could scarcely recognise herself any more. She’d certainly never suspected she had it in her to mimic a French accent and play-act at being a lightskirt, for the sheer fun of it. She’d always been sober and serious, even as a girl. Getting her heart broken, having her family roundly rebuke her, then spending years living with her embittered, man-hating aunt had only made her more inclined to look on life as a dull, dreary grind that had to be endured. Her only fun, thus far, had come from pulling the rug out from under self-important people like Mrs Podmore, or giving people private nicknames, as she’d done to Monsieur le Prune. It was as if a new Amy was emerging, day by day, the further she got from Stanton Basset and all its petty restrictions.

What else might she discover about herself as she broke free from the habits she’d acquired without even knowing they were stifling her?

‘I know,’ he sighed. ‘And I’m sorry.’

‘Sorry? You don’t like me as I am now?’ She’d

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