The Last Debutante by Julia London

Author:Julia London [London, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Historical Romance
ISBN: 9781439175484
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

NOTHING IN DARIA’S previous experience matched a man like Jamie Campbell. Nothing.

She’d never felt anything as fervently as she’d felt his kiss, had never felt such a burning, untenable desire to press her flesh to a man’s flesh—but Lord help her, she’d felt it in every bit of her skin . . . all in the space of a single kiss.

A delicious little shiver shimmied down her spine as she recalled the way he’d kissed her. Like a man who would possess a woman completely, who would lay her down and take her with a lover’s determination.

She lay on the bed in the dark cloak of night, her fingers tracing down her abdomen and back up, over and over again. She stared at the crack in the drapery, the soft glow of moonlight spilling into her room, and imagined him, big and bold above her, his hair framing his face, his body, his muscles—all of him sliding into her, filling her.

Lord. She rolled onto her side and buried her face in the pillow. What was this she was feeling? Lust for her captor? She was mad, quite mad, to think in such a way! She was not naïve. Jamie Campbell would use her ill and then happily collect his one thousand pounds. But then, had she not used him? Had she not allowed that splendid, truly spectacular kiss so that she might get what she wanted?

Daria opened her eyes. There it was. They would each use the other to gain what they wanted. That was the way things were done—in an English ballroom or an old Scottish castle.

How very cynical you’ve become, she chastised herself. Now you will invent an entirely new societal rule to excuse being moved by a brazen, unrefined Scottish laird?

She was far too reckless! What of the damage to her marriage potential? She was being held for ransom, for God’s sake—that alone would ruin her chances for a match with a good title. If rumors that she had done something inappropriate with the laird were to reach England, it would destroy any hope of gaining a husband with even the lowest of titles.

It would prevent her from ever getting married at all. Would she risk everything for physical pleasure?

She couldn’t bear to become a spinster, spending all her days in her parents’ house. Oh, she was playing with fire! She’d walked into the open flame with the ridiculous belief that she’d not be burned. But she had, and it had seeped into her blood and spread indescribable torment through her.

With a sigh, Daria rolled onto her back and stared blankly up at the canopy. She had very few options, really. She needed Jamie Campbell to protect her grandmother. Yet she needed to keep him at arm’s length for the sake of her reputation. She must tread carefully, avoiding him where she could, ignoring the way he made her skin tingle and the way her heart beat faster when he was near. Yes, Daria told herself as she closed her eyes, that’s what you must do.

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