Raven (Gentlemen of the Order Book 2) by Adele Clee

Author:Adele Clee [Clee, Adele]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Three years was a respectable time to mourn one’s wife. That’s what Finlay told himself as he sat in the dimly lit confines of Sloane’s carriage. It was possible to love two women but in different ways. Hannah had married him with no expectations. His inability to make her happy had nothing to do with the fact he loved Sophia. He knew that now. Nothing could have cured her of the mental malaise. Nothing could have saved her from the fever that eventually claimed her life.

He must have sighed aloud, his apparent anxiety causing Sophia to say, “You’re quiet. You’ve hardly spoken since we left the theatre. Are you thinking about Fitzroy’s revelation?” She shuffled uncomfortably in the opposite seat. “Or are you plagued with guilt over our interlude in the broom cupboard?”

“Storeroom,” he corrected.

She laughed. “Does it matter? This isn’t the time to be pedantic.”

“I wished we’d had the luxury of a bed.” During sleepless nights, during those times when a man needed to take himself in hand, he had conjured a seduction scene in his mind. But while the storeroom proved unsatisfactory for a romantic liaison, their lovemaking had not.

He could still smell the potent scent of her arousal, could easily recall the way her muscles pulsed around his fingers. His cock hardened at the mere thought of driving deep into her body again. Indeed, he found himself more than infatuated with the woman who’d let him make love to her in a damn cupboard. More than obsessed.

“I like it when you’re impulsive,” she said. “You’ve been so guarded of late.”

“The mind makes fools of the most logical men. I shall strive to do better.”

“Better in following your impulses? Or better when choosing the next place to make love?”

Finlay cleared his throat. With this new devil-may-care attitude, he considered pulling her into his lap, letting her feel the thickness of his throbbing erection. He had thought about little else since he’d tucked his cock back into his breeches. D’Angelo would be proud.

“Both.”

She lowered her lids in the way he found so beguiling. “So, you wish to be intimate again?”

His heart softened. Sophia radiated confidence now they were back in London. She wasn’t plagued with fears and doubts as she had been at Blackborne. Still, he could hear the apprehension in her voice and felt the need to offer reassurance.

“Sophia, I thought being close to you would push me to the brink of madness, but I find the opposite is true. When I’m with you, everything feels right. Once we’ve dealt with our mounting problems, we might take time to examine what that means.”

In the stillness that followed, he pictured a vision of the future—bright, not bleak.

“Did you have to mention problems?” she teased. “We were so engrossed in pleasing each other I didn’t ask if you believed Fitzroy’s tale.”

While briefly considering all they had learned this evening, Finlay glanced out of the window. They had left the bustling streets of the metropolis and entered the rural province of Chelsea.

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