The Last Duke by Jess Michaels

Author:Jess Michaels [Michaels, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Passionate Pen
Published: 2018-11-12T18:30:00+00:00

Kit caught Sarah in his arms and their mouths collided. Unlike the previous night, when she’d been shocked and confused by his touch, today she was ready. Her mouth opened and she welcomed him in. He drove his tongue inside, dueling with hers as he backed her away from the separate chairs in the parlor and to the settee. He lowered her there, his fingers digging into her arms as he positioned her for better access.

He tasted like scotch, despite the early hour. Intoxicating and masculine and heady. She was drunk on him and gripped her hands against his lapels, then around his neck as he practically dragged her into his lap to get closer.

Need mushroomed in her from some deep place she’d never felt before. A tingling that seemed to bring all her limbs and nerve endings to life, a heat that burned and soothed all at once. She wanted something. She knew what it was called, but had never felt it. Had been trained to avoid it. Now she didn’t give a damn about ruination. Just him.

He dragged his mouth away in that instant with a low growl that seemed to settle in that throbbing place between her legs. He didn’t release her, but continued to stare down into her face like he didn’t fully recognize her. Or perhaps he didn’t recognize himself. Then he sighed.

“I will admit, Sarah, I don’t know what to do about this. This wanting that seems to sear my very soul. That doesn’t seem to give a damn about propriety or grace or anything but touching you.”

She shivered at the nature of his words. Things said in the dark by a lover, not in private between duke and governess, no matter where she’d started off in life.

She swallowed hard, past her worry, past her fear, past her uncertainty, and whispered in a voice that was so low and dark and husky with desire that she could hardly recognize it as her own, “Perhaps we don’t have to know, Kit.”

He brushed a hand across her cheek, smoothing away an errant curl before he released her and sat back into a position that was at least a little more proper.

He smiled. “It is not in my nature not to know. I always know my next move and all the reasons for it.” He sighed. “But then again, it is not in my nature to pin a young woman against a settee arm and revel in her taste.”

She shivered again. “So?”

“So we are in uncharted territory. And perhaps that is not the worst thing. When I touch you, it is most definitely far from that.”

He stood, and she followed him to her own feet. He caught her by the waist and dragged her closer, brushing her lips with hers. This time it was gentle. But she felt the heat throbbing behind it.

“Hmmm,” he murmured as they parted. “I should go before I can’t. But you’ve given me a great deal to consider, Sarah.”

She smiled as he backed toward the door, gave her a small salute and then departed the room.

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