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What more did she want from him?

"Will you call on me tomorrow?" she asked

After a brief pause, he nodded "If you wish"

"I do I do wish it" For that, and for soain found Lily seated at the desk in Leo’s library Her neck was curved white and graceful as a swan’s as she bent over an open ledger Soant sweep of her neck and the precise point of her elbow as she dipped her quill … A tide of longing pushed through hinal mirror this time, he entered the room and approached her from the side She was so absorbed in her work, she didn’t notice hiht shoulder Even then, she did not look up She siht change in her breathing let hi to see if he would touch her

So he did He laid a hand on her shoulder where her thin fichuaher quill in the inkwell With a breathy sigh, she tipped her head to the left, stretching the slender colu here too long I’ve gone all stiff"

How could he resist an invitation like that? Julian pushed aside the frail, gauzy fichu and squeezed her shoulder gently, running his thue of muscle and sinew at the base of her neck She had indeed been working too hard Her muscles were drawn taut, resistant to his touch As he kneaded her shoulder, the tension ertips

She moaned low in her throat

Lust rocked hihed "Just there"

Suffice it to say, now Lily wasn’t the only one contending with uncoe of her collarbone Exciteertips Mere inches below, the snowy expanse of her décolletage tempted

Here was a perilous slope

He did what anya precipice would do He inched forward and peered over the edge

What a breathtaking view The gentle mounds of her breasts cradled a steep, luscious valley She looked so soft Julian had seen and touched and held to his cheek the finest textiles the world had to offer--velvets, silks, luxurious furs from every corner of every continent And yet he knew instinctively, none of them could approach the sleek perfection of Lily Chatwick’s bosom There would siranite," and "tempered steel" failed to describe the current state of his arousal

"You can’t have her," he told hiuess himself, he jerked his hand fro "M in expectation "Well …?"

"Well" Eager to conceal his own expectant, rising parts, Julian pulled up a chair and seated hiht you so onto the desk He’d been holding it in one hand all this while, and the parcel’s contents had grown noticeably agitated

She was having none of it "Julian Do you honestly ht didn’t happen?"

He froze He’d been asking hi With a bit of bluster and diversion, he could lead her to believe she’d misunderstood his words and actions He could convince her that no, he actually hadn’t lost his wits and i years of lust for her With luck, he could have her believing that whatever he’d planned on doing instants before they were interrupted, ither for the second ti into her lovely face, he found he simply couldn’t stomach "

Why shouldn’t she understand that since the day they’d met, he’d been seized by a powerful attraction to her? Lily was no fool She would understand, as he did, that nothing could ever co on his desire--her , the inequity of their rank, the recent resurrection of his innate sense of decency Not to ht, Julian Bellamy would permanently disappear from London society One way or another

Let her know Let her knohat she did to hiers on the desk "You desire me"

"Yes"

"Always have"

"Froht, when you flew into a rage with that Commander …"

"Merriwin Coht I eak, or in need of protection"

"No It was jealousy An instinctive male reaction, and one I should have suppressed" He leaned forward "I do believe in you, Lily I know you could handle that man, or ten just like him The weakness was mine"

"Well" Leather creaked as she sat back in her chair "This is all so very enlightening"

"It is?"

"Yes, of course It explains so much" Her cheeks went pink "II was beginning to feel like the only woman in London who didn’t catch your eye"

His heart sank Nothing--in all his life, absolutely nothing--could have ret his history of debauchery more than this: for him to finally confess his desire for Lily, and for her to conclude that his ad that she should believe that, and yet … so convenient<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>