Sutton’s Secrets by Scott Scarlett

Author:Scott, Scarlett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Happily Ever After Books, LLC
Published: 2023-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

After a seemingly endless day fraught with upheaval, violence, and emotion, Logan was precisely where he wanted to be: in his bed, with his woman in his arms. They’d bathed together in his cramped tub, taking turns tending to each other in an intimate act he’d never performed with another woman. But how important it had been, to feel that connection. He’d washed her hair and she had scrubbed his back. He had soaped her breasts, and she had tenderly threaded her fingers over his scalp, rinsing the suds.

Now, he was content to hold her, her head resting on his chest, their hearts thumping in a reassuring rhythm that was somehow in unison. He stroked up and down her back, the coverlets keeping him from the luxury of her sweetly scented skin. But the night possessed a chill, and he had no wish for her to be cold. Beyond his bed, the flames on a candelabra flickered against the darkness of the night, the fire in the grate burned down low.

“Logan?” she murmured softly into the stillness.

“Hmm?” he asked, playing with the damp tendrils of her midnight curls now.

“Are you awake?”

“Aye, love.” He didn’t think he could sleep this night. Not after the scenes he had witnessed earlier in the day, and not until he came to a firm decision on what he was going to do next.

“Tell me something that only you know,” she said, echoing the words he’d said to her on that first night. “Something you’ve never told another.”

He smiled, still toying with her hair. “I bought the Winters soap we used in the bath tonight because I hoped it would smell like your scent.”

And yes, touched in the head as he was, he’d intended to lather himself in the concoction. One way he could be nearer to her even when they were apart. He wouldn’t lie, although the scent of the soap had been floral and pleasant, it wasn’t as divine as her violet perfume. Having her here with him while he bathed had been its own reward, however.

He felt her lips move against his bare chest and knew she was smiling, too. “You did?”

“I did,” he admitted. “After that first night.”

Which proved just how bleeding much of an effect she had on him.

Arianna was quiet for a moment, using the tip of her finger to draw a circle around one of his nipples. It was a place on his body that had never seemed particularly sensitive before. But everywhere she touched him came roaring to life, and the light stroke sent heat directly to his groin.

“It is a lovely soap,” she murmured, “but it doesn’t smell quite the same, does it?”

“No,” he agreed, nuzzling her crown with his cheek in a tender show of affection he’d never given to another. There was something about Arianna that made him want to cherish her, to worship her. To take care of her. To hold her and never let go. “Nothing could smell as bleeding good as you do.

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