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CHAPTERTEN
Emily had been hiding in wait.
But even she hadn’t anticipated literally falling into Ace’s arms.
Now that she was here however…
His body was lean, and hard, and so strong. His hands circled her waist in the most masculine way. Her pulse thrummed in her veins as she once again remembered her fantasy of his hand sliding up the stocking of her leg.
Need pulsed through her. “Ace,” she managed to squeak out.
“I’m sorry. I wasn’t watching where I was going.”
She shook her head. “The fault was mine. I was hoping…” Her words trailed off as his features darkened. Was he angry with her?
Fortunately, he didn’t push her away. If anything, he pulled her closer. She could feel the brush of his firm stomach against hers. She’d worn a short corset this evening and thank the heavens she had. She bent out, arching her back, to look up at him, their torsos still pressed together and his face grew darker still.
“Emily,” he said.
His voice had a rough, gravelly quality that only seemed to make her more aware of everything as her lips parted to speak.
But she couldn’t get the words out. No surprise there. Instead, she licked her lips, parched as they were, as she tried to formulate an explanation.
His eyes narrowed as he stared at her mouth. “Emily. I’m going to kiss you.”
“Oh. Yes, please,” she replied, both eager and grateful no explanation had been required.
The smallest smile ghosted across his mouth before it was gone and he was lowering his lips to hers.
The light brush against her mouth sent waves of sensation rocking through her and she gasped, breathing in the scent of him.
Sandalwood, brandy, cigar, and deep masculine scent mingled together to make a smell as intoxicating as the rest of him. She melted deeper into him as his lips passed over hers again. This time, she kissed back, her hands tightening on his biceps.
She felt him groan and a wave of power like she’d never known surged through her. This was what it was like to be confident. Wanted.
He kissed her again and she eagerly returned the gesture, her fingers sliding up his arms to twine about his neck.
By the fourth press, her body was molded to his, their breath mingled, their eyes locked.
And then he tilted her lips open and dipped his tongue between her lips to taste her.
Emily had never imagined anything so divine and yet so devilish. With a certainty, she knew that this kiss…this was a beginning.
When his tongue dipped into her mouth again, she did some tasting of her own. He was delicious.
But the swipe of her tongue caused his arm to slide about her back, locking her against his chest. “Emily,” he groaned as he pulled back just far enough to speak. “What have you done to me?”
“Bewitched you?” she asked hopefully before his mouth dropped over hers again.
Wouldn’t it be lovely to make a man this handsome, this mesmerizing, her very own husband one day? But he didn’t answer as he plundered her mouth again. And for once, she didn’t care about words at all as her lips did something far more interesting and more fun than talk.
Their tongues came together, their lips tasting and nibbling until Emily was so breathless with want, she forgot everything around her.
And when he slid one of his hands from her back, down her backside to cup her cheek and pull her hips into the cradle of his, Emily knew with absolute certainty that she’d never touch another man again.
This one was made for her.
“We have to stop before we’re found,” he whispered against her mouth in between kisses. “Emily. We can’t.”
