True Love's Deception by Marie Higgins

Author:Marie Higgins [Higgins, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marie Higgins
Published: 2013-12-24T06:00:00+00:00

JULIANA STOPPED ACCEPTING flutes of champagne after the room started spinning. Why she had consumed so much, she didn’t know. Unless it was to help her forget about her husband—um—about Andrew, she corrected.

The more she saw Andrew move from one woman to another, the more she flirted with men who asked her to dance. Strange it didn’t make her feel any better knowing she played Andrew’s game. It made her feel worse. Her stomach literally rolled.

Or perhaps the champagne was the cause.

Nonetheless, she couldn’t get Andrew off her mind or make her heart stop aching. She couldn’t stop the need to rush across the room and take him in her arms and kiss him passionately. Even now she fought the urge. More handsome than she ever thought possible, he literally made her heart stop. None of the other men of noble birth could make her feel the same warming sensations.

They never could.

“Miss Juliana...um, I mean Mrs. Lawrence?”

She turned to the man next to her. Lord Edward. She’d forgotten he’d come to her party. “Good evening, my lord.”

“May I escort you out to the dance floor for the next song?”

Inwardly, she grimaced. She really didn’t want to, but it was too rude to turn him down without a proper excuse. Right now she couldn’t think of one.

“Well, I suppose...”

“Excuse me, but this dance is taken.”

The deep voice of Andrew startled her, and she whipped around to look at the man behind her. The quick movement caused her to tilt, but Andrew’s arms shot out and wrapped around her waist, keeping her from toppling to the ground.

Andrew smiled. “I am relieved I can still make you swoon, my dove.”

Bracing her hands on his shoulders, she righted herself. “Thank you. You are my hero, dear husband.”

“As it should be.” He winked.

She glanced over her shoulder at Lord Edward. “I hope you don’t mind, but I would like to dance with my husband.”

Lord Edward swept his hand toward the dance floor. “As you wish.”

When Andrew pulled her to the middle of the room, he took her hand and brought it to his mouth, brushing his lips across her knuckles. Tingles shot up her arm and warmed her skin.

“I have missed you immensely,” he said.

She arched a brow. “Indeed? It certainly didn’t look like it. You have been kept busy this evening. Many women have had the privilege to entertain you in my absence.”

He brought her into his arms and moved to the rhythm of the tune. “We can remedy that, you know. I assure you, I prefer your company over all the others.”

Her heart skipped with excitement. He always knew the right things to say. Then again, perhaps the champagne affected her more than she wanted.

“You have a strange way of showing it, dear husband.”

His grin disappeared and his eyes darkened with desire. “Say the word, my dove, and I’ll happily take you away from here. Paradise awaits us, and I want to show you the way—only the way a husband can show his wife.

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