Enticed by Ecstasy (Wicked Treasures) by Donna Grant Read Free Book Online Page B

answer as he entered her from behind.   His hands gripped her hips as he plunged into her hard and fast.   Breathing became difficult as her body swam with pleasure, and when he reached around and gently tugged on her clit, her climax washed over her instantly.
    While her body pulsed with the orgasm, Channing continued to thrust until he gave a shout and one final push before his seed spilled inside her.
    They collapsed as one on their sides.   She was just drifting off to sleep when she felt his arm tighten around her to draw her snugly against him.
    “You’re not going to like my story.”
    Sleep forgotten, she turned her head to look over her shoulder at him.   “I want to know what he’s done.”
    Channing sighed.   Only one other person knew his living nightmare, and Rye had taken it to the grave.   Channing had never thought he would repeat the tale again.
    “I was in love once,” he began softly.   “I knew as soon as I saw Rebecca I wanted her for my wife.   My family had made a decent living, and though I wasn’t wealthy, neither was I poor.   I thought I gave her everything she wanted. Until one day she went shopping for her trousseau for our wedding.   When she returned, she wasn’t the same woman.”
    “What happened?”
    “She met Huntington.   She said he was charming and handsome and could give her jewels and silk.   Everything I couldn’t.”
    “Channing, I’m so sorry.”   Her fingers entwined with his, and she gave him a little squeeze.
    He took a deep breath before continuing.   “As expected, I was jealous, but I foolishly thought Huntington was merely trifling with her.   It wasn’t until he set her up with her own townhome that I realized what he’d done.”
    “He made her his mistress.”
    “She would rather have lived as his mistress than as my wife.   I was devastated, but if that’s what Rebecca truly wanted, I wasn’t going to stand in her way.”
    Abby turned then and until they were face to face.   “She didn’t deserve you.   All she cared about was the money.”
    “I know that now.   At the time I didn’t.”
    “There’s something else, isn’t there?”
    “I kept in contact with Rebecca in the hopes that Huntington would grow tired of her.   I’d done some investigating, and I knew he had three other mistresses.   She didn’t believe me when I told her.   She thought she could get him to marry her.   She had no idea he was already married.”
    Abby eyes widened.   “Oh.   Channing.”
    “Rebecca confronted Huntington thinking to prove me wrong, to prove me the jealous ex-fiancé that I was.   Only, she discovered truths she couldn’t grasp.   With her eyes opened to reality, she demanded that he divorce his wife, remove his mistresses and marry her since he had ruined her.   Huntington laughed then gave her two days to vacate the townhome.”
    “As callous as usual,” she said softly.   “Did Rebecca’s parents allow her to return?”
    “She sent me a message after Huntington left.   I immediately went to her.   That’s how I learned everything.   I told her none of it mattered, and I’d still marry her.   She agreed, and asked me to return for her in the morning.”
    Channing stopped, unable to go on as all the old wounds and hurts threatened to swallow him.   Then Abigail’s hand touched his face.
    “Tell me,” she urged.
    He swallowed painfully and met her gaze. “When I arrived the next morning it was to find that she’d hung herself. She left a note telling me that none of it was my fault, that she couldn’t allow me to live out my life with someone like her. She had shamed me and her family, and she needed to be punished for it.”
    Abigail silently wrapped her arms around him.   Channing closed his eyes and reveled in her embrace.   There was nothing she could have said that would ease the ache inside of him, but holding him had been just what he needed.
    After a moment, he lifted his head.   “That’s