The Secret Heiress by Bethany Campbell

Author:Bethany Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

She’d known this was going to happen. They both had known. It had shivered in the air like electricity building itself into a blaze of lightning. She could have stopped it from happening. But she hadn’t wanted to stop it.

For the first time in her life, she felt almost helpless with desire, filled with the need to have his mouth upon hers, to be close to his body, as close as possible. This was the forbidden delight that she’d never wanted to experience, never wanted to admit was real.

His mouth moved expertly against hers. Too expertly? His hands cradled her face firmly yet tenderly. But was that touch too practiced? Part of her wanted to analyze what he was doing and how he was doing it and why.

Another, newly discovered part of her wanted not to think at all, only to feel and desire and to desire more still. His body was strong and hard against hers. He smelled of spicy aftershave.

His lips were warm, strong and supple. They opened slightly, inviting her to follow suit. She did. He tasted like lemonade and richness.

His hands moved from her face to her shoulders, drawing her nearer, so that her breasts grazed the solidity of his chest. Her hands rose shyly and rested on his shoulders, and she felt the subtle movement of his muscles beneath her fingertips.

His arms folded around her, pulling her so close that her upper body pressed against his, and his kiss grew deeper, and she raised her face and strained to make it deeper still.

The tip of his tongue traced her upper lip, then her lower, then thrust gently into her mouth, and she found hers ready to greet him. She felt herself wanting to open like a flower to him, open slowly but completely.

When his hand settled over one tingling breast, it felt wonderful, but too wonderful.

Alas, how easily things go wrong!

A sigh too much, or a kiss too long…

She jolted back to reality, struggling to find her usual self-control. She tried to jerk away from him, although his arms still held her fast.

“No,” she said breathlessly. “No. This is going no farther. It shouldn’t have gone this far.”

She put her hands against his chest and pushed until he reluctantly let her go. She didn’t want to meet his eyes.

But he challenged her. “Look at me. Marie? Come on. Look at me.”

Around them, the dry leaves rattled like a whisper of percussion, a light but irresistible rhythm. Defiantly she lifted her head and met his dark gaze. A brown-black lock of hair had fallen over his forehead, and his expression was intense.

He caressed her face. “You’re complicated.”

“I don’t know what you want from me,” she said. “And I can’t let myself get tangled up in something like this. I—I don’t want to be like my mother. She had an illegitimate baby—me—and she was born to an unwed mother herself. I promised myself long ago I’d never join that club. Women who—who—”

He felt a wrenching, gut-deep sympathy for her.

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