Lady Varney's Risqué Business (12 page)

With a groan, he put one hand to her jaw and kissed her with lips and tongue and teeth. A ravenous mating of mouths, their kiss had her gasping for air.

Suddenly, he broke away. His gaze deep green with need, he pulled her to the hall and out the garden doors. She struggled to keep up with him. But he was relentless, tugging her along toward the cottage.

As they approached, she caught the aroma of roses. Young, small roses. Tears sprang to her eyes. As she passed the cuttings, now rooted and green as they had not been when last she was here, she saw they needed a dedicated gardener. She was that, she would be that. Here.

He thrust open the little blue cottage door and turned to pull her over the threshold and into the space. In her peripheral vision, she could tell not much had changed since she’d been here.

“Tell me you want me here to tend the roses,” she beseeched him, her arms wrapping around his shoulders, her mouth seeking his. “Tell me I may stay to tend to
us
.”

He caught her up in his arms and strode with her to the bed. There, he laid her down and began to divest her of her buttons and bows, opening her bodice to his gaze and his hands and his lips.

The power of his kisses on her breasts, the way he sucked her into his mouth had her arching into him, yearning for more. His hands pushed up her skirt, and when he caressed the bare skin of her thighs, he growled in delight. “Promise me you will never change.”

“Never grow old? No. Never stop loving you? Never.”

His fingers found her mound, invaded her core and stroked her deeply. “Promise me you will never go anywhere without me.”

“Never again.”

He leaned up to smile slowly, though tears stood in his eyes. “Never stop seeing your Turk.”

She laughed, tracing a fingertip over his bottom lip. “Come with me. Watch what he does.”

“I fear, my darling, if I did,” he whispered as lowered himself to put his mouth to her very wet cunny lips, “I would kill him.”

“Not you,” she chuckled but cried out as Justin spread her swollen lips open and darted his tongue to her clitoris and flicked it to madness. “Promise me you will dismiss your mistress.”

“I never had one.”

“No!” She pushed at him as he laughed. “You spread that word around London to make me jealous?”

“To torment you, yes.”

“You devil. Well,” she said as she undulated to his touch, “you will never take one now.”

“What time would I have for one,” he countered as he undid his flies and in one swift drive, possessed her to the hilt, “if I am forever making love to you?”

Her nails dug in his flesh. She bared her teeth as he began to stroke her with his thick and ready cock. “I shall make it a requirement that you are with me at every ball.”

He took one of her breasts in his mouth and sucked her high and hard. “To every ‘at home’ and wedding breakfast.”

“In every butler’s pantry and library we can find,” she teased.

He cupped her face, grinned at her and pumped her once more, sending hot rivers of delight through her body. “Including our own.”

“We shall scandalize the
ton
.”

“And everyone shall have on their lips tales of Countess Belmont’s Risqué Business.”

“That business now will be to please only you,” she promised as he surged inside her.

“How easy that will be, my darling,” he declared as he possessed her to the hilt and held, “Merely tell me that you love me and you will never leave my side.”

“The easiest promise I have ever made, my love. The easiest and the happiest.”

About the Author

Cerise DeLand believes great romances match feisty women with one—or more—men who cannot live without them. And Cerise knows men—all types of them from living in Italy, England, Japan, New York, Washington—and wild west Texas! She blends that intimate knowledge with a passion for European and Chinese art and travel to delightful lands she loves to write about.

An award-winning author, Cerise has also penned 18 print romances and mysteries (under another name), many of which have been selections of The Doubleday Book Club and The Mystery Guild. And what does this prolific author do when she’s not writing? Ah. She is an excellent cook. To taste and prepare a few of her delicacies, do come to her blog, especially on Thursdays for her Afternoon Delights, elegant simple refreshments to serve after your rendezvous!
http://cerisedeland.blogspot.com

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