Page 8 of The Lord who Seduced Me
He knew she was right, and he hated it. After she said her piece, she looked down at her dress. Refusing to meet his eyes any longer.
She didn’t look up at him, “Please move aside Lord James. I need to get back to the ballroom. I have another gentleman awaiting a dance.”
Cabe stepped forward. “I warn you now Rose, I will not tolerate you dancing with other men much longer.”
Rose’s eyebrows raised as she looked up at him, anger written all over her face, “You won’t tolerate it? Oh really? You have said nothing to me but empty words Lord James. Ones that mean nothing to me. I am allowed to dance with whomever I wish. Again, you say these things, but you are not anything to me. You have shown that to me. I will never be yours.”
Cabe pulled her into his arms, “That’s a lie and you know it. I apologize if I made you feel that way Rose.”
Then he kissed her. Dragging his tongue along her bottom lip, she gasped, and he plunged his tongue into her mouth and she let out a moan.
Her moans drove him on, and he pulled her up against his body harder. He kissed his way down her neck, and he licked his way down to her cleavage.
He nuzzled into her breasts, and when she brought her hands to his hair, he pulled away.
He took a few steps back from her and watched her come back to herself. She wiped her mouth with the back of her gloved hand and pushed past him.
He caught her arm again and whispered in her ear. “Try finding another who will make you moan like I do.”
Kissing her palm and the back of her hand, Cabe unlocked the door, and Rose ran from it.
He watched her go, and then went back to his corner, keeping an eye on her. When they called for dinner to be served, Cabe made certain he was seated across from Rose.
She refused to look at him, and Cabe wanted to laugh. Rose spoke to the man she was seated next to, and Cabe clenched his jaw hard.
The woman seated to his right touched his arm and he looked down at her, his face a mask of shock. “Lord James, you haven’t eaten much this night.”
Rose looked over at the mention of his name and seeing the beautiful woman’s hand on his arm, her eyes narrowed dangerously.
Cabe shook the woman’s hand off his arm, “What I do or not is none of your concern. Do not touch me.”
The woman gasped in shock and outrage. “Well I never,” she huffed and Cabe shrugged. He knew she was a harpy and was not afraid to seduce men to get her way. He would not be one of them.
In fact, he tried his best to move his chair further away from hers, and anytime she tried to speak to him from then on, he pointedly ignored her.
He did not need Rose to feel as if she had competition when there was none. The woman next to him finally gave up and she sniffed and turned away from him.
He cared not, and watched Rose’s face carefully, her lips twitched when she heard his words. And when the woman turned away, Rose smiled.
She turned her face down and Cabe missed it. She halfheartedly listened to her dinner companion, not really paying attention to him in the least and that fact made Cabe want to smile.
But after they finished eating, and just as they were walking back into the ballroom for the next dance to begin, all hell broke loose.
The man Lily was dancing with was trying to touch her. He made some very inappropriate passes her way and spoke to her with so much vulgarity Cabe did not even know what to say, and he made his way to Rose’s side.
He wanted to kill the man speaking so foully to Lily and her family. When Burk burst on the scene and punched the man in the face, after Aidan had, Cabe pulled Rose back out of the way.
When the Duchess came up to their party and ripped into the Lord, Cabe wanted to clap that someone was actually standing up for Aidan, instead of watching him get treated with such dishonor.
Being spoken to the way and being treated like that was a huge dishonor to Aidan, and their family. Aidan was a Duke. One of the highest ranked Lords in the realm and here he was constantly being disrespected. Cabe hated it.
There were only a few people who treated Aidan and his wife the way that they should be treated. He was grateful to the Duchess for not letting Lord Colbert continue his tirade.
He was glad when it was over. And the entire family left, not wishing to hear the gossip and titters of the women and men of the ton.
Cabe helped them leave the ball and kissed Rose soundly. She did not even try to push him away.
Then he put her in the carriage, got into his and went home.
