Page 4 of Her Seven Nights with the Duke

What has gotten into me? Perhaps it was a terrible idea to ruin my reputation. I have begun to have wanton thoughts as well.

The Duke cooed, pulling her out of her thoughts once again and shutting off whatever voice of reason she’d begun to develop.

“You are a very naughty girl.”

“Yes, Your Grace,” the lady moaned. “But only for you.”

They paid her no mind, stuck in a weird dance Nora couldn’t break free from.

His voice teased her, a glint in his eyes showing that he was once again speaking to her and not to the lady he was with.

She blushed heavily. Had he figured out what it was she was thinking about? Were her thoughts very obvious on her face?

She’d been told she had a very expressive face when she did not have her guard up, and if there was one thing that was very clear in the situation in which she had found herself, it was that she didn’t have her guard up. The Duke had managed to disarm her without her knowing about it.

Nora frowned. He was trying to make her blush and burn with shame for watching them in such an intimate position, when it should be the other way around. Although she had caught them, he had not reacted as one would when caught fooling around with a woman who wasn’t his wife. If there was anyone who should feel shame, it should be him and not her.

She turned away, finally managing to get her body to cooperate with her, her face burning with shame. She rushed off as quietly as she had come, careful not to startle the woman, who remained unaware of what had been going on around her, wrapped up in the Duke’s embrace.

Don’t turn around…cheeks burned bright red as she rushed off, but despite her chants, Nora turned around and watched the knowing smirk on his face, as though he could read her thoughts and knew the turmoil he had wrought on her mind.

Nora seethed as she made her way back to the ballroom, welcoming the darkness of the barely lit hallways as she struggled to calm her mind and put up the walls that he hadbrought down with a few words and actions she wasn’t meant to see.

She paused just before she entered the ballroom. Perhaps this could work in her favor. Her mind went over the information that had been thrust upon her. Perhaps there was a way that she could use this to her advantage, after all.

Nora grinned, satisfied. She walked into the ballroom and, much like before, stood behind the guests, her back pressed against the wall as she allowed the music to wash over her and soothe her while the wheels began spinning in her mind.

CHAPTER TWO

The little rabbit ended up running away, after all.

Samuel Gale pulled his hand out from under his lover’s skirt. She was still delirious, holding onto the front of his coat and breathing heavily while she tried to compose herself. He pulled his handkerchief out of his coat pocket, wiping her essence off his fingertips, his mind still stuck on the lady who had just run off.

He remained in his position, with his lover’s body resting against his, keeping her upright, although all he wanted was to go back into the ballroom in search of the mystery lady. He was certain he would find her if he went in.

Samuel chuckled at the direction of his thought. He was not some young boy just out from under his father’s thumb, eager to wet his length with the first woman he found interesting, nor was he some schoolboy who had developed a crush that he should be so eager to go find her. She was fascinating, but that was all that was.

He slid the handkerchief down the bodice of the woman’s dress, his fingers grazing the softness of her breasts, pushed up in her dress. She looked down at it for a moment and back up at him, her sleepy brown eyes blinking continuously. She smiled, still not down from the high of her release.

“You are so gifted at that,” she said in a breathy tone.

Samuel chuckled at her compliment, running his fingers up and down the sides of her face in a gentle caress.

“And you are so beautiful. As beautiful as the first time I met you, and I knew I had to know you,” he said, stilling his hand as he pinched her cheeks affectionately.

“Simply knowing?” she asked, her voice flirty and teasing.

Samuel chuckled once again. “How bold you have become. You never would have been able to say things like this when we first met.”

“And you like me for it,” she said, wrapping her dainty fingers around his huge ones as she stared up at him with eyes filled with so much adoration.

“As you like me when I bring you pleasure,” he said with a wiggle of his eyebrows.

She giggled, adjusting her dress and fiddling with her hair to ensure that she looked proper.

He looked back at the spot where the lady had been standing only moments ago as she watched them. He had thought that this was a safe place for a tryst and had not expected that someone would catch him there.

He had been confident, since he had never been caught whenever he carried out little escapades like this, which was why it had come as a shock to him that someone caught him. He had managed to mask the surprise when he noticed her standing there, her lips parted and her eyes fully focused on him as his lips and hands moved expertly on his lover’s body.

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