Page 77 of The Duke of Distraction
“I should hope so.I am beginning to wish we were naked.This position is ideal for giving me access to your breasts.”
She glanced down and saw that he was indeed perfectly placed to take them in his mouth.“Well, that’s a shame.”She wanted to say they would be naked next time, but she was fairly certain there would be no next time.He’d tried to behave as a gentleman ought, and she’d already pushed him past the limit.She wouldn’t do so again.
This would have to be enough.
Sarah cupped the sides of his head and kissed him again, sweeping her tongue along the inside of his mouth as she increased her pace, rising and falling as if she were indeed taking her horse from a trot to a canter.
His fingertips dug into her thigh, and she moved even faster.It was such an incredible feeling as she drove them toward release.Her muscles tensed, and she knew she was so very close.Was he?She had no idea.
But then his hands tightened on her waist and her thigh, and he thrust up into her, his body meeting hers with ever-greater need.Another climax rushed over her, and she broke the kiss, trying hard not to scream his name.
And still he moved, his cock driving into her again and again.Then he tensed, and she knew he was there.Satisfaction poured through her and then broke when he left her body.
She opened her eyes to see his head cast back against the top of the settee.His eyes were closed, his face drawn, his lips parted in ecstasy as he drew and expelled air from his lungs in rapid succession.
“Why did you stop?”
“I didn’t.”His voice was strained, and his eyes remained closed.
She felt a sticky wetness between them and understood.Lavinia had told her about a man withdrawing his sex before he spilled his seed in order to prevent making a child.She appreciated his forethought, because she certainly hadn’t thought of it.
At last he opened his eyes, and she’d never seen them a more pure green or more incandescent.
“Thank you,” he said simply and leaned up to kiss her again, his lips moving softly and deliciously over hers.
“Felix, I have news!”The door crashed open.
Sarah turned her head, and her entire body froze.
Anthony stood at the threshold and stared at them together on the settee, his jaw dropping nearly to the floor.“What thehellare you doing?”
Sarah scrambled to Felix’s right side, using her body to shield him while he put himself back together.Not that it mattered.The damage was done.There was no way to interpret what Anthony had walked in on other than the truth.
Once his fall was rebuttoned, Felix stood and faced his best friend.“I know you’re angry, but this really isn’t any of your concern.”
Anthony stalked toward him and, before Felix saw it coming, had planted his fist against Felix’s cheek.Felix’s head snapped back, and pain exploded across his face.
Sarah leapt up from the settee and clasped Anthony’s arm.“Stop!”
“I demand satisfaction,” Anthony growled.“Name your second.”
Felix rubbed his hand over his cheek.“A duel?You’re mad.”
Anthony ripped his arm from Sarah’s grip and advanced on Felix once more.“You’re the one who’s mad if you think you can ruin my sister and go unpunished.”
Sarah dodged between them, putting her back against Felix’s chest.“Anthony, stop.There isn’t going to be a duel.I am notruined.”
Anthony shifted his wild gaze to Sarah.“I know what I saw.”
“And I’m sorry you saw it.But that will teach you to barge in on a closed door.”She turned her head to look at Felix.“I was certain I’d locked it.”
“This ismyfault?”Anthony thundered.
“No, it’s mine,” Felix said calmly, hating the pain creasing Anthony’s face.
“It isn’t either,” Sarah said, narrowing her eyes at Felix before she returned her attention to Anthony.“It’s mine.I seduced him.If you want to punish someone, it should be me.But I don’t think you ought to punish anyone.Felix and I are able to make our own decisions and are prepared to live with any consequences.”
Felix inwardly winced.Did she have to use that word?Hopefully there would be no child—he’d certainly tried to avoid it, hard as that had been.
