Tempted By His Kiss by Warren Tracy Anne

Author:Warren, Tracy Anne [Warren, Tracy Anne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

She felt him reach for the buttons on his falls, fingers quivering in his hurry to unfasten his breeches. In the distance a clock struck midnight, the chime echoing its sweet music in twelve, evenly spaced beats. Cade froze, his hand falling still.

Biting out a livid curse, he stepped away from her, his lungs working like bellows as he drew in several ragged breaths. “Cover yourself,” he ordered, his hands turning to fists at his sides as he fought a silent battle of wills.

For a long moment she couldn’t move, her body still caught up in the blissful aftermath of his touch. Forcing herself out of her daze, she pushed at her skirts—nearly stumbling as she leapt the couple inches off the back of the sofa to the floor. Cade reached out to steady her with a hand at her elbow. As soon as it was clear she wouldn’t fall, he let go, turning to make his way across the room.

She shivered, feeling his desertion with a sharpness akin to pain. Hands trembling, she brushed weakly at her skirts, then found her way to a nearby chair. Gratefully, she sank down upon it.

As for Cade, he stood staring into the burning embers, one palm set against the mantel above his bent head. Abruptly, he closed his eyes as though struggling to regain his composure. “Are you capable of returning to the ballroom?” he asked in a brusque tone. “Or do I need to find an excuse for your early departure?”

The ballroom! Dear Lord, she hadn’t even considered the festivities still going on only a few rooms away. Heat spread upward into her cheeks, making her wonder if she looked as unsettled as she felt.

“You look fine,” he said, as though she’d voiced her thoughts aloud. “Or rather, you will in a few minutes more, once some of the redness fades from your mouth.”

Instinctively, she lifted a hand to her lips, only then realizing that Cade’s rapacious kisses had left more than a residual tingling behind—her mouth swollen and almost hot.

“You can say you have a headache,” he offered. “No one will question you.”

Why does he sound so cold? she wondered. Had their passion meant nothing to him? Obviously, he’d remembered himself before matters had gone too far for recall, and put a stop to their embrace while she could still claim to be a virgin. As for herself, she’d had no such self-control, her senses completely abandoned to him.

Shoulders straightening, she drew herself upright. “Pray do not trouble yourself, my lord. I am quite well. Now, if you will excuse me.”

“Meg—”

But she couldn’t listen anymore. Jumping to her feet, she fled the room.

Cade took a few steps to follow, then forced himself to halt, cursing under his breath as he did. Hell and damnation. What was he doing? Thinking? But wasn’t that the problem? That he hadn’t been thinking?

When he trailed Meg here to the library, he’d intended to separate her from whatever blackguard she had let lead her away from the ball.

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