The Dark One
The Dark One
“That it was some heroic duty of his to make certain the lady was not being abused. He had lied to himself. What he really wanted was to touch her again. To kiss her. To feel the heat spring up between them the way it had the night of the Greenleys’ ball. She drew emotions from him that he thought he’d long ago gained control over. She made him feel. She made him want. She made him behave foolishly.
“I have misled you,” she said, and tried to scoot farther away from him. “Regardless of my behavi...or at the Greenleys’ ball, I am not the sort of woman who would allow a man who came into my room uninvited to also easily slip into my bed. This matter must be set straight between us once and for all.”
He knew what sort of woman she was. Her kisses, although they had affected him far more than those of any experienced woman he’d spent private time with, had been innocent the night of the ball. Her responses to him had been too honest not to be new to her. She had been an innocent playing the part of brazen.MoreLess
“I have misled you,” she said, and tried to scoot farther away from him. “Regardless of my behavi...or at the Greenleys’ ball, I am not the sort of woman who would allow a man who came into my room uninvited to also easily slip into my bed. This matter must be set straight between us once and for all.”
He knew what sort of woman she was. Her kisses, although they had affected him far more than those of any experienced woman he’d spent private time with, had been innocent the night of the ball. Her responses to him had been too honest not to be new to her. She had been an innocent playing the part of brazen.MoreLess
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