Page 41 of Sweet Siren
She looked forlorn, confused. "I do. Butoh..."
"Liv, if I stay, we will go to that bed and enjoyourselves."
She blinked, then laughed, coming back to her wits. "You'd get no joy of it. I can't lift a finger let alone make proper love to that blackguard KillianHanniford."
She would welcome the passion that sparked between them. How could he be so fortunate? What had happened to her earlier denial of her interest in him? He'd have to ask, insist she tell him.But not now.He smiled at her, willing himself not to grab her and put her to the bed. "You're tired. I am too. We'll discuss thislater."
She caught him by the ends of his cravat and it unraveled in her hand. "Oh dear, I cannot even detain youproperly."
He chuckled. This ploy of hers was so sweet. But the time, the place was not right to claim all of her. "Youcould."
She tipped her head, a teasing smile upon her luscious lips. "How?"
"Call me darlingagain."
"Did I do that?" Her voice helduncertainty.
He said not a word, but arched one browhigh.
She blushed, her cheeks pink. "I must've beendreaming."
"Do dreamagain."
And then she shocked him to hiscore.
She flowed against him, the suppleness of her breasts and belly the spontaneous invitation to passion he'd craved from her. Her hands flowed up his chest to frame his jaw, then to sink into his hair. Rising on her toes, against his lips she whispered, "I prefer thereality."
She skimmed her mouth along his, the brush of her flesh molten and angelic. She put the full of her lips to his and he was lost, gone to a bliss he'd forgotten existed, filled with the new rapture that was kissing LivBereston.
He set her fromhim.
She looked bereft, her mouth turneddown.
He slanted two fingers across her swollen lips. "There will be more. Not here. Not now Butsoon."
She was so tired, shewavered.
He caught her up in his arms and seizing the will power that had forged him into a wealthy man, he set her to the bed. He yanked the coverlet over her. "Go to sleep.Rest."
She cupped hischeek.
Unable to deny her, he bent low, caught her hand and pressed it to his heart. With a tenderness he summoned from the fathomless well she'd shown him existed in her own soul, he kissed her magnificent mouth. "We need you. All ofus."
