The Best Love Stories of 2011--5 Book Box Set by Lindsay Armstrong

Author:Lindsay Armstrong [Milburne, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-74278-960-6
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release
Published: 2009-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

When they reached the kitchen, Liam snagged Sapphie’s hand and swung her around to face him. ‘Sapphie, thank you.’

Relief poured through him. Relief that he’d been able to enter the nursery and stay there. Relief that failure and misery hadn’t swamped him. Relief that he could do it after all—be a good and proper father to Harry.

Her eyes went wide. ‘For what?’

‘For not pushing. For making it all as easy for me as you could.’

‘Did you think I wouldn’t?’

It suddenly hit him that that was exactly what he’d thought. But Sapphie wasn’t Belinda. She wasn’t like any woman he’d ever met.

And he owed her so much!

Gratitude welled through him, mixing with his relief and bubbling up into a heady sense of optimism. Before he could think better of it, he leant forward and kissed her.

He hadn’t meant to let his lips linger on hers. If he’d been thinking straight he wouldn’t have kissed her in the first place. The kiss was meant to be a thank-you—a brief touch of his lips to hers—a symbol of his gratitude.

The moment his lips met hers, though, all those intentions flew out of his head. Their lips met and some frozen thing inside him started to melt. Warmth flooded his whole body.

It happened in an eye-blink.

Sapphie gasped, her mouth opening in surprise, and he couldn’t resist touching his tongue to her inner lips and exploring her soft sweetness. She swayed, and he slid his arm around her waist to hold her close.

And then she froze.

He did too.

Did she want him to stop? He prayed to God she didn’t. She started to draw away … loosened his hold …

But then very tentatively, she moved her lips against his—so slowly that the frozen thing inside him thawed completely, sending tenderness spiralling through him. With a tiny sigh she moved in close again. Her head fell back and her hands bunched in the material of his shirt. He tasted her slowly, thoroughly, wanting—needing—to draw a response from her. His fingers curved around her jaw, stroking the soft firm line of her throat, savouring every taste and breath and feel of her. When she touched her tongue to his he was lost.

His hands followed the dip and swell of her back and hips—skimming, teasing and tempting, savouring every discovery. Sapphie’s hands curled into his hair and she arched against him, opening herself up more fully for his kisses, his caresses, her gasps driving him on.

He’d never wanted a woman with this intensity before.

He wanted to imprint himself on her, body and soul. He wanted her branded on him, body and soul. Now! The physicality of it took him off-guard. Need, desire, heat pounded through him with elemental force. He hadn’t experienced anything as primitive or desperate in his life, not even with Belinda, and—

Belinda?

The word pounded in his brain.

Belinda!

With a curse he dragged his mouth from Sapphie’s. He kept hold of her upper arms until she regained her balance, and then he dragged his hands away too. The blood pounded in his ears in time with his breathing—ragged and rapid.

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