Wedded in Winter (The Wicked Winters Book 2) by Scott Scarlett

Author:Scott, Scarlett [Scott, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Romance, Historical, Fiction
Publisher: Happily Ever After Books, LLC
Published: 2020-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

Merrick shrugged away from her touch. In the next moment, he was going to leave the bed, and she could not bear to let him go. He wanted her, and the knowledge lit a fire which refused to dim.

“Wait,” she called out, desperate to stop him. “Do not go, Merrick. What if…what if I want you too?”

He stilled, his back to her. The silence stretched between them, interrupted only by the wind battering the inn and the sounds of their fellow travelers slowly coming to life around them. Part of her was afraid he would reject her. The other part of her was afraid of what would happen if he did not.

He raked a hand through his golden mane of hair, leaving the too-long, wavy locks disheveled as a breath hissed from him. “You do not know what you are saying, Bea. You are young and reckless, and you cannot—”

“Stop,” she interrupted him, rising on her knees and crawling toward him, closing the distance separating them. On impulse, she threw her arms around him from behind, bringing her breasts into contact with the fine lawn of his shirt and the hewn planes of his back. “Stop saying I am young as if I am a child who cannot think for herself. I am a woman grown, and I know that regardless of what is to happen, you are what I want here and now.”

He shook his head. “You are not thinking about the consequences.”

How wrong he was, for she could think of nothing but them. She knew how unlikely it was that Dev would permit her to work as a midwife, and it was why she had resorted to sneaking out of Dudley House without his knowledge. The fortune she stood to gain from her father was in her brother’s control thanks to the stipulations from their father’s will. He had not trusted his daughters to make decisions, and he had left Dev ultimately in charge of their respective inheritances. Her life was not her own, but that did not mean she was going to give up fighting for what she wanted.

“I am thinking about the consequences,” she told him fervently. “If I must marry someone of my brother’s choosing rather than pursue my dreams, at least I will have known I did my utmost. Surrendering is not the answer.”

He turned back to her, and the smolder in his gaze stole her breath. For once, he was bereft of the rigid control he so oft exhibited. He looked like a man at war with himself. “I cannot dishonor you, Bea. No matter how much I want you, and regardless of what you think you feel for me.”

There he went again, implying she was too young to know what she wanted. She grew weary of his condescension. There was one sure way to win this battle.

“I know what I feel,” she told him, and then she leaned forward, ending the space between them once and for all, and pressed her lips to his.

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