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“For now,” she said softly.
“For always,” Reeve corrected.
Tara raised her head off his shoulder and looked into his eyes. “I pray you are right.”
Her lovely lavender eyes sent a jolt through him, and he felt his body burst alive with desire. Feeling wicked, he turned a sinful grin on her, and whispered, “I’m always right.”
Then he did something out of sheer instinct, he kissed her quick, his lips touching hers for a mere instant, though long enough for him to get a taste, and damn if he didn’t like the flavor.
The shock of his unexpected actions left her speechless, and he hurried to his room, knowing she would probably explode with anger any moment. And he didn’t want his family hearing her.
Surprisingly, her silence continued even when he entered his bedchamber, and he sat her on the end of the bed. He stood looking down at her and noticed that her bosoms heaved, as if she was breathless.
Had his innocent kiss stirred her?
He hoped it had since it certainly had more than stirred him, and he was now thinking how delightful it would be to taste her luscious breasts, sitting high and full in her low-cut dress. The succulent mounds invited, and he was hard-pressed to ignore them.
“You’d best do as your father asked,” Tara said.
Reeve scrunched his brow, suddenly unable to recall what it was his father wanted of him.
“Meet him and the others in the solar,” Tara reminded.
Reeve nodded, his father’s words coming back to him. “You’ll be all right?” He didn’t want to leave her though he knew full well she was safe. But would she be safe if he lingered?
His thought startled him, and the fact that she had not reprimanded him for kissing her made him realize that they both could be in trouble if he remained even a moment longer. If he did, he most certainly would kiss her plump lips again. And this time, it would not be a brief innocent kiss he gave her. Strangely enough, he didn’t think she would stop him.
“Your mother will be here shortly,” she said.
She warned that they would soon not be alone, but she did not warn against him kissing her. And he realized that he would kiss her again and soon, very soon.
“I’ll come bid you good night when I finish with my father and brothers,” he said.
“No!” she said quickly. “I am tired and wish to sleep. I bid you good night now.”
“Then I bid you a fond good night and sweet dreams,” he said, and bowed gallantly before turning with a grin and leaving the room.
It was obvious she worried that he would kiss her again and that she wanted him to. His grin widened as he descended the steps two at a time to the second floor. She liked his kiss, though it was more of a peck. Wait, just wait until she tasted a full kiss, she’d be wanting more for sure.
He halted before reaching the solar, suddenly struck by an unexpected thought.
What if he wanted more? Much more than a kiss?
“Lost?” Bryce asked jokingly, with a slap to Reeve’s shoulder.
“You might say that,” Reeve said, the haunting thought continuing to nag at him.
“Interested in the widow, are you?”
Reeve swung his head around, a denial ready to spill from his lips, when he suddenly slammed his mouth shut.
Bryce laughed. “Not sure are you?”
“I just met her.” Reeve shook his head as they entered the solar, Carmag and Duncan there waiting for them.
“Where did you meet her?” Carmag asked.
“I came upon a band of inept thieves trying to rob her.”
