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Such a serviceable bone.
Protecting her heart.
It made her think about how easily a heart could be pierced.
By a dagger.
A sliver of bone.
By silver eyes filled with longing and buried pain.
She shouldn’t allow herself to think such thoughts, but recklessness was building inside her.
One more hard tug from Nick and her bodice slipped down, exposing her to his gaze.
“Touch yourself there,” he commanded.
She knew what he meant. He wanted her to touch her breasts. As she had this morning while she watched him working in the garden.
She couldn’t bring herself to obey. It was too much. She wasn’t bold enough.
He lowered his head and blew cool air on her naked flesh.
The tips of her breasts tightened and throbbed.
“Alice.” He caught her gaze. “Touch yourself for me. Make me an offering.”
Slowly, with trembling fingers, she slid her hand from her breastbone to cover one of her breasts.
“The other one, as well.”
She cupped both her breasts with her hands and closed her eyes.
“Good girl.”
He rewarded her for obeying him with a long, lingering kiss, his tongue stroking inside her mouth while his hands held her captive against his arousal.
Every time he shifted beneath her, he rubbed against the center of her body through her linens, sending waves of pleasure along her inner thighs.
Only leaving her lips to kiss his way along her neck, he murmured encouragement as she arched into the embrace.
“I want to be bad,” she heard herself whisper.
“With all the mad dukes watching?”
“Let them watch.”
Who knew good, sensible girls would burn the hottest?
The heat emanating from her was enough to burn all the canvases to ash and rid him of his cursed legacy forever.
He filled his hands with her breasts, shaping the peaks, tugging and teasing.
The lantern had long since burned out and the room was lit only by moonlight. He couldn’t see her eyes in the darkness, but he knew their color. The clarity and depth of the turquoise, like the heart of a candle flame. Like a rare orchid blooming in the night.
He lifted his hands and she exhaled through her nose, a disappointed little sound that made him smile.
“I’m only finding the wine,” he reassured her.
