Loretta Chase

You are well aware of your effect on women, and I’m sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public.”Women…sighing and salivating…over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.

You are well aware of your effect on women, and I’m sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public.”Women…sighing and salivating…over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.

– Loretta Chase –

Lord of Scoundrels

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You’ll want all your strength for the wedding night.” I cannot think why I should need strength,” she said, ignoring a host of spine-tingling images rising in her mind’s eye. “All I have to do is lie there.” “Naked,” he said grimly. “Truly?” She shot him a glance from under her lashes. “Well, if I must, I must, for you have the advantage of experience in these matters. Still, I do wish you’d told me sooner. I should not have put the modiste to so much trouble about the negligee.” “The what?” “It was ghastly expensive,” she said, “but the silk is as fine as gossamer, and the eyelet work about the neckline is exquisite. Aunt Louisa was horrified. She said only Cyprians wear such things, and it leaves nothing to the imagination.” Jessica heard him suck in his breath, felt the muscular thigh tense against hers. “But if it were left to Aunt Louisa,” she went on,”I should be covered from my chin to my toes in thick cotton ruffled with monstrosities with little bows and rosebuds. Which is absurd, when an evening gown reveals far more, not to mention–” “What color?” he asked. His low voice had roughened. “Wine red,” she said, “With narrow black ribbons threaded through the neckline. Here.” She traced a plunging U over her bosom. “And there’s the loveliest openwork over my…well, here.” She drew her finger over the curve of her breast a bare inch above the nipple. “And openwork on the right side of the skirt. From here” –she pointed to her hip–“down to the hem. And I bought—” “Jess.” Her name was a strangled whisper. “–slippers to match,” she continued.” Black mules with–” “Jess.” In one furious flurry of motion he threw down the reins and hauled her into his lap.

Loretta Chase

You’ll want all your strength for the wedding night.” I cannot think why I should need strength,” she said, ignoring a host of spine-tingling images rising in her mind’s eye. “All I have to do is lie there.” “Naked,” he said grimly. “Truly?” She shot him a glance from under her lashes. “Well, if I must, I must, for you have the advantage of experience in these matters. Still, I do wish you’d told me sooner. I should not have put the modiste to so much trouble about the negligee.” “The what?” “It was ghastly expensive,” she said, “but the silk is as fine as gossamer, and the eyelet work about the neckline is exquisite. Aunt Louisa was horrified. She said only Cyprians wear such things, and it leaves nothing to the imagination.” Jessica heard him suck in his breath, felt the muscular thigh tense against hers. “But if it were left to Aunt Louisa,” she went on,”I should be covered from my chin to my toes in thick cotton ruffled with monstrosities with little bows and rosebuds. Which is absurd, when an evening gown reveals far more, not to mention–” “What color?” he asked. His low voice had roughened. “Wine red,” she said, “With narrow black ribbons threaded through the neckline. Here.” She traced a plunging U over her bosom. “And there’s the loveliest openwork over my…well, here.” She drew her finger over the curve of her breast a bare inch above the nipple. “And openwork on the right side of the skirt. From here” –she pointed to her hip–“down to the hem. And I bought—” “Jess.” Her name was a strangled whisper. “–slippers to match,” she continued.” Black mules with–” “Jess.” In one furious flurry of motion he threw down the reins and hauled her into his lap.

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