Secrets of Seduction by Nicole Jordan

Author:Nicole Jordan [Jordan, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Historical romance, Regency
ISBN: 9780345525321
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-04-28T21:00:00+00:00

She had known this moment would come. Skye studied Hawk in the silver light. His gaze was fixed intently on her face, but she couldn’t make out his expression. Fearing how he might take her revelations, she was not eager to confess, yet it was past time for honesty.

Skye drew a steadying breath. “Yes, I planned your seduction.”

His face closed and hardened. When she tried to reach up to touch Hawk’s cheek, his fingers closed around her wrist, trapping her palm against the wall of his chest.

“That first night … You feigned a nightmare to lure me to your bed?”

She shook her head. “No, not at all. My nightmares are very real. Storms tend to incite them, as does sleeping in a strange place, just as I told you. That first night when you came to my room, all I wanted was comfort. The fact that we made love … I did not plan it that way. It just happened.”

When Hawk made no reply, Skye continued on doggedly. “Don’t you remember what I said then? I have horrible dreams about my parents’ deaths when they drowned at sea. It started when I was ten, when I was sent away to boarding school and had to leave everyone I held dear but for my cousin Katharine.” She had felt so bereft and lonely that she’d cried herself to sleep for weeks. “I cannot seem to conquer my nightmares—or at least I couldn’t until I met you. I promise they are no pretense—” Skye broke off abruptly. She was babbling again, so she closed her mouth to give Hawk a chance to speak.

“You have been manipulating me from the very first,” he charged.

“No, truly I have not. That would be impossible, even if I had wished to. You are not susceptible to manipulation.”

“But not for your lack of trying.”

“No,” she agreed. “But giving you my virginity … that was never part of my plan, I swear it.”

Skye held her breath, waiting for Hawk’s response. His grim silence worried her, but not as much as when he abruptly rolled away from her side and rose from the bed.

When he lit the bedside lamp, Skye winced as sudden brightness starkly illuminated his features. His expression was cold, dispassionate, but she could sense the heat of his anger.

Feeling too vulnerable, sprawled naked on his bed, she sat up awkwardly. When Hawk tossed her nightdress at her, she put it on without protest. Her breasts tingled, feeling exquisitely sensitive, while her core was tender and throbbing—a severe contrast to the sudden ominous chill in the air.

Hawk scooped up his own nightshirt from the floor and shrugged into it, his actions brusque. Skye bit her lip in dismay. This was hardly the scene she had dreamed of—an intimate lovers’ confession where they both laid their secrets bare, whispering sweet words of desire and love.

How quickly the mood had changed. Barely five minutes ago, she’d been cradled in Hawk’s arms, feeling his heated need, his hunger, the thirst in his kisses.

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