The Rake

The Rake by Georgeanne Hayes Read Free Book Online

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Authors: Georgeanne Hayes
Tags: Romance, Historical, Erotic, spicy, Georgian
hand and she curled her fingers
inward. She knew she shouldn’t pursue it further, shouldn’t have
pursued it as far as she had, but she discovered a burning need to
know if it was in any way significant for him as it had been for
her.
    She was not in the habit of allowing men to
kiss her, although she knew Phoebe had experimented with kissing
more than once. She had not, in point of fact, had either the
opportunity or the desire to do so before. “Does it … does that
always happen?”
    He sent her a sharp glance. “You should
never ask a man a question like that, my dear, if you expect him to
treat you like a lady.”
    The rebuke was certainly warranted. It stung
nevertheless. She nodded. “I expect I shall discover it for myself
soon enough,” she muttered to herself, revolted at the idea of
discovering something like that in Jonathan Flemming’s breeches
when he kissed her. Would it be that big, she wondered? Or would it
be bigger still, since he was a bigger man than Lord Wyndham? The
thought sent a wave of panic through her. She knew it was supposed
to fit inside of her, she had just never quite figured out
where.
    Beside her, Lord Wyndham stiffened, and she
realized, belatedly, that she must have muttered her thoughts
aloud. “I should go in now,” she said quickly, pulling his coat
from her shoulders and handing it back to him. “Thank you.”
    He took it, and stood up, pulling her to her
feet. Peering up at him, she saw that he was still angry, far more
angry than she’d realized. She was sorry for it, but would it be
better to apologize for her brazen manners, she wondered? Or would
it be best to try to pretend that it had never happened?
    She stared down at her hands a moment. “You
are so … comfortable to talk to. I apologize if I made you
uncomfortable after your kindness to me.”
    He caught her shoulders when she would have
turned away. She looked up at him in surprise. “You should not get
too comfortable with me, Demi. It would be all too easy for me to
forget that I am a gentleman and you are lady, particularly when
you kiss me like that.”
    She grimaced. “I shouldn’t have kissed you
back?”
    He shook his head slowly, moving closer.
Catching her arms, he placed them around his neck, pulling her
tightly against him. “No,” he murmured, leaning close and brushing
his lips against hers lightly once more. “Nor allowed me to kiss
you the way I did.”
    “ Why?” Demi asked
breathlessly when his lips parted from hers briefly.
    “ Because now I know what
you do to me … and what I do to you … instead of merely imagining
what it would feel like to kiss you,” he said between short,
nibbling kisses. “And now I have a burning need to discover what it
would be like to make love to you.”
    He kissed her deeply then, as he had before,
but with far less restraint. Her belly clenched as excitement
washed through her. Heat burgeoned instantly inside of her, where
before it had grown slowly from warmth to fire. Dizzy, breathless,
she rose up on her toes and tightened her arms around his neck,
caressing his tongue with her own and finally sucking on it as he
had hers before. He groaned, slipping a hand down along her back
and cupping her buttocks through her gown, pressing her lower body
tightly against his own. The swollen ridge of flesh was bruisingly
hard, but she imitated his movements, rocking her hips against
his.
    He squeezed her buttocks tightly, holding
her still as he tore his lips from hers and buried his face along
the crook of her neck, breathing raggedly. Finally, he set her away
from him. She looked at him doubtfully, confused that he’d pushed
her away.
    “ Go inside, Demi,” he said
harshly. “Now!”
    She took a step back at the growled order
and finally turned and fled.

Chapter Four
    Luck was not something Demi had more than a
passing familiarity with, but for once it came to her rescue. She
managed to make it into the house and up the servant’s stairs
without

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