The Tempting of Thomas Carrick
“Until Lucilla had got him into her bedroom, the previous evening had been a subtle seduction; in many ways, the day had been, too. Once she’d shut her bedroom door behind them, the seduction had turned blatant, yet…while on one level he wasn’t entirely at ease with how far into uncharted territory they’d ventured, most of him was still reveling in the aftermath—a curious sense of freedom.
She was the only bed partner—the only female of any sort—with whom he’d openly been simply himself. He’d adopted the façade of a gentleman of society so long ago, he’d forgotten what it was like to set it aside and simply be him.
He’d forgotten a lot about being simply him. About what he truly liked, about what appealed to the real him.
So many of the previous day’s interludes had reminded him of what he had, in his early years, liked about living in the country; those moments had reawoken a forgotten appreciation for the minor mundane occurrences that made up the heartbeat of country life.
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